Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

No matter how cutting edge or sophisticated, from a technology perspective, your product might be, you’ll still need to present compelling metrics to get a deal signed. so that you can present your product as a solution to that problem. Leverage your investors/advisors to help uncover that inside baseball for you.

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frameworks incumbents leadership advice 112

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Data privacy regulations like GDPR, the CCPA and HIPAA present a challenge to training AI systems on sensitive data, like financial transactions , patient health records and user device logs. One workaround that’s gained currency in recent years is federated learning. Image Credits: DynamoFL.

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incumbents frameworks health financing 74

Andreessen Horowitz

AUGUST 30, 2023

Milken himself is said to have credited (or blamed) VisiCalc and spreadsheets for the growth of the Private Equity (PE) industry, since cash flows vs. debt payments could be easily monitored, and a formerly complex net present value calculation now just involved a formula for a cell. billion, against almost $2.8

opportunity 91

opportunity incumbents financing finance 91

TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

There’s scores of competition, including incumbents like OpenAI and Anthropic. ” He has a point — insofar as incumbents are feeling the pressure, at least. And it’s early days for Together, which wouldn’t say whether it has any customers at present — much less revenue.

incumbents 91

incumbents communities enablement strategy 91

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

In addition, a direct customer feedback loop enables The Naked Market to quickly gauge which products are winning with consumers so they can be scaled. Jeffrey Yam, executive director at Integrated Capital, met Fugman and Kost in Hong Kong and had already gotten to know them well when they presented Yam with their business plan.

capital 86

capital incumbents venture capital enablement 86

TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

Their collective bet is that their market will grow over time and eat into traditional incumbents’ share. The chief executive also said NALA, currently present in Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Ghana and South Africa, plans to be live in 12 African countries by the end of the year, including Nigeria. and the E.U., and the U.S.

peer-to-peer 98

peer-to-peer incumbents finance financing 98

TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

On one hand, it’s hugely popular, with 10 of the top 20 or so most popular apps in regional rankings being those that enable crypto trading. Crypto trading, in that context, occupies a funny place in the Nordics, Villum Klausen told me.

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incumbents strategy capital culture 95

Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 22, 2024

Maybe only a subset of your customers are excited about generative AI right now, but you believe that generative AI will eventually reshape the customer experience of your product and present a much richer value prop. If your other, more high-powered genAI feature enables your power users, you could gate that feature and charge more for it.

SaaS 123

SaaS frameworks incumbents founder 123

Y Combinator

JANUARY 21, 2021

In the last few years, incumbents have started to adopt technology to fix inefficiencies, but they’ve focused on tools to streamline individual tasks (e.g., Fragmented supply and demand is a problem for incumbents, but a great opportunity for a digital marketplace. 4) A New Pricing Model Enables Better Options in a Volatile Market.

incumbents 72

incumbents transportation networking mix-use 72

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2022

It’s relatively bare bones at present — Habib says that more personalization options will arrive in January — but QuickVid can cobble together the components that make up a typical informational YouTube Short or TikTok video, including captions and even avatars. See: [link].

mix-use 99

mix-use incumbents media creativity 99

TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

SaaS models and cloud technologies have eliminated some of the barriers for Israeli companies and enable companies to quickly set up and set up a proof of concept. Riskified makes e-ommerce easier and safer and enables a thriving e-commerce environment. Led by CEO Pavel Gurevich the company is seeing excellent traction.

startup 141

startup SaaS mix-use opportunity 141

Unvalidated Learnings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Both approaches complement each other, especially for innovative tech companies which typically disrupt an existing market by undercutting the incumbents on the one hand ( and hence shrinking the market), while creating a new use case attracting a larger number of new users on the other hand. How profitable can it be?

investing 52

investing investment peer-to-peer disruption 52

Unvalidated Learnings

JUNE 8, 2017

Not only did the incumbents fail to grasp the potential value, but it would have made no sense for them to go after such a small unprofitable niche, which would have been irrelevant to their top line, and eating away at their bottom line (CDs were 90%+ gross margin products back then). most of the value created would accrue to new entrants.

incumbents 40

incumbents disruption frameworks innovation 40

abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

These tools might enable online booking, provide the ability for more frequent customer-provider communication, facilitate surveys and feedback, automate follow-up correspondence, and anticipate customer needs. Today, 77% of consumers say they use online reviews as the first step in finding a new physician.

health 59

health hospitality networking mix-use 59

Unvalidated Learnings

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Slideshare presentation here These slides support a keynote I gave at Slush’s “On-Demand Everything” conference?—?they Has mobile enabled a match-making between supply and demand that wasn’t possible before? not a product), in less than an hour. Is mobile a game-changer? Or is it simply a more convenient interface?

startup 76

startup incumbents enablement VC 76

Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 20, 2013

Incumbents and startups alike are duking it out. The incumbents, Microsoft and Apple, leverage their own advantages heavily. You fell victim to one of the classic blunders - The most famous of which is “never get involved in a land war in Asia”. There is a land war being fought on the web and it’s for files and filesystems.

incumbents 40

incumbents enablement startup development 40

Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 13, 2023

A cloud native engine will enable creation of 3D experiences using any device from anywhere via a browser. Community modding enabled out of the box A next gen engine should be designed to enable a first-class modding environment out of the box that developers can choose to extend to end user creators.

incumbents 145

incumbents creativity development enablement 145

TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2021

“ Their market opportunity is also huge; Egypt’s transformation to a cashless society is being enabled by the unique products Paymob has built.” Asides from Egypt, Paymob is also present in Kenya, Pakistan, and Palestine. Paymob was founded in 2015 by Alain El Hajj, Islam Shawky, and Mostafa El Menessy.

incumbents 98

incumbents startup ecosystem financing finance 98

TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

So how should startups that have incumbents to take on, other startups to best, or both, approach the balance between growth and spend this year? TechCrunch will sit down with Clubhouse co-founder and CEO Paul Davison to talk about the company’s past, present and future. Negotiating Your First Term Sheet.

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disruption pitching VC ventures 81

Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

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? The input contains the topics I’m going to cover in a presentation at the conference. Please suggest a list of ideas for a fun and novel title for this presentation.

incumbents 104

incumbents creativity development technology 104