Remove enablement Remove incumbents Remove reference
article thumbnail

Here is Why Non-Obvious Startup Ideas Can Yield the Largest Results

Both Sides of the Table

It has become so synonymous with Internet companies that the French have invented a disdainful term including Amazon: “les GAFA,” which they refer to as Google-Apple-Facebook-Amazon to talk about American dominance of the Internet. It is a household name. The value prop is pretty clear.

article thumbnail

Why Entrepreneurs & VCs Should Focus on Basecamp, Not the Summit

Both Sides of the Table

Equally, I encouraged entrepreneurs to thoroughly reference check their VCs – you’ll learn much more from this than anything else. They incumbents might provide terrible products or services that you think you can better. I can’t tell you how incumbents will act and who else will choose to compete fiercely with us.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

The Complete Guide to SaaS Pricing Strategy

Tomasz Tunguz

Your Startup’s Unit Economics Your pricing plan has to enable the company to become profitable at some point. Enables natural expansion : MongoDB and Ethereum, two database companies with nearly identical revenue trajectories through 2020, both employ usage-based models that have supported their explosive growth.

SaaS 109
article thumbnail

Expeto, a startup selling tools to manage private cellular networks, raises $13M

TechCrunch

But that hasn’t stopped new ventures from cropping up to challenge the incumbents. Instead, it offers tools to enable companies to manage multiple private cellular networks, including 3G, 4G and 5G networks, from a single pane of glass. “We plan to raise our next round of capital in the second half of 2024.

article thumbnail

Akeyless secures a cash infusion to help companies manage their passwords, certificates and keys

TechCrunch

Today, Akeyless is thriving, Angel tells me — despite fierce competition from incumbents like Hashicorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager and Google Cloud’s Secret Manager. In software development, “secrets” refer to credentials like passwords and access tokens. Image Credits: Akeyless.

article thumbnail

B2FI: Demystifying Software Sales Into Financial Institutions

Andreessen Horowitz

For example, a sense of needing to keep up with these technology advancements from leadership can be translated down to a VP of Consumer Finance who needs to grow a consumer banking app while battling fintech upstarts and who may be thinking about using AI products to do so–which your product could help enable.

article thumbnail

Vesey Ventures closes on $78M debut fund to back early-stage fintech startups

TechCrunch

In other words, it wants to invest in early-stage fintech and enabling technology companies “where opportunities for early partnerships with financial incumbents exist.” Having said that, things are cyclical…it’s like when the tide goes out, you see who’s sort of naked right? Want more fintech news in your inbox?