TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Penguin Business describes Starling Bank founder Anne Boden’s “Banking On It” as the “first-hand account of one woman’s quest to rebuild Britain’s broken banking system.” Yet, concludes the future Starling founder, the big banks had learned nothing and were determined to continue with business as usual.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

Interestingly, Yuma “got started by accident,” according to founder Guillaume Luccisano. “Baselit is [an] AI copilot for analytics,” co-founder Shubham Rana writes in the blog post announcing Baselit. “That’s when I knew I was onto something and had to turn this into a real company, once again.”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

“The rule is very confusing and strange,” said a fintech founder on condition of anonymity to avoid upsetting RBI officials. ” the founder added. Amazon Pay, Paytm Postpaid and Ola Money are cautious, too, because many believe that they might be impacted as well.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 30, 2022

Also, the company has reportedly disabled sharing of Google documents internally and they’ve blocked access to all companywide dashboards – likely because business has probably suffered dramatically. But founder and CEO Sergio Furio told me that he projects annualized revenue of about $200 million for 2021. Image Credits: MagicCube.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And on the incumbent side, Google’s competing for dominance with its tensor processing units (TPUs) while Amazon’s betting on Inferentia. A number of vendors — both startups and well-established players — are actively developing and selling access to AI inferencing chips.

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 30, 2021

In the long run, software platforms have the potential to be much larger than traditional incumbents. When Gusto founders Josh, Tomer, and Eddie came together in 2011, they saw an unmet need in small business payroll. Incumbents relied primarily on sales teams, which Gusto suspected actually limited their reach among SMBs.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

CEO and founder Nitin Jayakrishnan says that the new capital will be put toward expanding Pando’s global sales, marketing and delivery capabilities. This, along with the platform’s emphasis on no-code capabilities, differentiates Pando from incumbents like SAP, Oracle, Blue Yonder and E2Open, Jayakrishnan asserts.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

But Leda Health co-founders Madison Campbell and Liesel Vaidya think of themselves as advocates for sexual assault survivors. . We’ve also documented potential investors engaging with social media posts calling for us to be jailed.” . Their investors call them disruptive innovators. We’re not in the business of proving consent.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

For the past three years, UpCodes and its founders have been entangled in a copyright lawsuit filed by the International Code Council (ICC). And in all those cases, big old incumbents like ICC will try to find ways to slow down their new competitors.” ” The ICC disagrees with Marrero’s ruling, Oncu told TechCrunch. .”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Europe is perhaps an obvious first step for Neeva’s inaugural expansion plans, owing to the slew of antitrust complaints currently faced by the mighty incumbent Google, with legislators targeting everything from e-commerce (Google Shopping) and Android to its dominance of the online ad market. France and Germany. ” Privacy push.

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propel(x)

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Due diligence on a startup can be divided into the following two components: Industry due diligence , which refers to the big picture and involves understanding the industry, who are the incumbent players in the market, who are the competitors, what competitive advantage the startup has, what their chances of success might be, and similar research.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Reber knows a thing or two about software disrupting legacy productivity software — he is the co-founder and CEO of presentation software startup Pitch and the former CEO and founder of Microsoft-acquired Wunderlist — and notably he is joining Rows’ Advisory Board along with the investment. Image: Rows.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 24, 2022

This effectively creates a unique opportunity for local players to build a modern, scalable employee management platform based out of Southeast Asia,” according to Omni HR Co-Founder Brian Ip. Our initial traction has been promising and we’re off to a great start,” says Omni HR Co-Founder YC Chan. “We

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2022

Well before Better.com garnered negative media coverage due to the manner in which CEO and co-founder Vishal Garg callously laid off 900 employees, the controversial executive made headlines for being the target of multiple lawsuits by PIMCO, Goldman Sachs and other investors involving entities he controlled.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

By platform shift, I mean, why has the value accrued to the incumbents and why hasn’t there been a new set of AI-native companies that have come up and displaced them? Let’s say a founder comes in and they want to build an AI company to automate a bunch of stuff. What is it? It’s very simple.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Docusign (contract signing) product has a “free” tier that allows you to send five documents for signature. The reason that you build them is that they can grow the brand much faster as more people experience the product and allow you to (hopefully) displace incumbents who are charging for the same thing.

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Y Combinator

APRIL 26, 2021

Business credit is traditionally underwritten based on the founders’ FICO scores. As international founders with less than a month of credit history, their chances of getting approved were slim to none, despite having $125K in the bank. Brex gave startup founders a daily view into the month’s cumulative expenses (vs.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2023

Vishal Lugani is general partner and co-founder at Acrew Capital. This inspired me to chronicle best practices and considerations for founders who are selling their company. This inspired me to chronicle best practices and considerations for founders who are selling their company. First, some observations.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 17, 2021

Coda is simple in that its focus is on the document, one of the oldest content formats/tools on the internet, and indeed in the history of software. Its ambition lies in the fact that there are massive incumbents in this space, like Google and Microsoft. A screenshot from Coda’s pitch doc. The soft circle.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 22, 2011

I have other areas of interest & competence such as cloud computing and document management given my background. It’s also true that I’m mostly founder driven, where the founding team & my personal relationship with them leads to a strong mutual working relationship. How does the incumbent respond?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

. “I worked at Intel for over 13 years, and that’s where I met Dataloop’s second co-founder and CPO, Avi Yashar,” Dataloop CEO Eran Shlomo told TechCrunch in an email interview. Shlomo says it’s incumbent on the companies using Dataloop’s tools to affect change — not necessarily Dataloop itself. “We

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

Besides seeking to snag market share from incumbents such as Concur, Brex is also taking on startups such as Navan (formerly called TripActions) — which actually started its business focused on travel expense management before broadening its offering — and also Ramp, which itself expanded into travel last year. Sign up here.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 25, 2017

The startup often inherits this exceptional characteristic from one or more of the founders. In most software categories, incumbents exist and for start up to win share, the company must wrest budget of way from incumbents. Digital Ocean has developed the best documentation for engineers using cloud platforms.

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Y Combinator

MAY 1, 2019

Craig Cannon [00:00:40] – Matt Hackett, who is Casey Neistat’s co-founder. So, I would just spend a lot of time researching stuff, or in empty Word documents just never feeling satisfied with your output is a really dangerous– Craig Cannon [00:24:17] – Interesting. Jarvis Johnson [00:00:39] – Right.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 13, 2023

There’s a wealth of community knowledge and learning materials documented in forums, textbooks and tutorial videos. Ultimately, these engine unbundling approaches are market wedges to find soft spots where a new creation tool can provide 10x improvement over incumbents.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 24, 2022

As Frederic writes, Amazon trained the system — which currently supports Java, JavaScript and Python — on billions of lines of publicly available open source code and its own codebase, as well as publicly available documentation and code on public forums. TechCrunch+ is our membership program, which helps founders and startup teams get ahead.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Dylan Field, founder and CEO of Figma, looks at the relationship between designers, developers, and AI, in conversation with a16z’s David George. [00:36] 4:03] Jambot demo [7:02] Human vs. AI creativity [13:37] Applying AI to design [14:31] Startups vs. incumbents Will AI replace designers? Will AI take all the design jobs?

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Y Combinator

MAY 8, 2019

Kevin’s a partner at YC and co-founder of Wufoo. Brian’s the CEO and co-founder of HubSpot. I’ll tell you one thing that’s interesting about HubSpot, is both founders are introverted, but one is far more introverted than the other. My co-founder uses it even more than I do. I use it a little bit.

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Revolution

DECEMBER 23, 2024

There are some known unknowns founders and investors will adapt toforemost, a change in administration. The optionality to lock in gains amid prolonged investment cycles through secondary sales and continuation funds are disproportionately available to larger, multi-stage, incumbent funds.

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