Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 21, 2022

UBP enabled the company to manage COGs and gross profit. At one startup with product-market fit, Lee and the team paused product and engineering hiring, and instead funneled those funds into the sales and marketing teams to sustain the company’s acceleration. Gross profit equals revenue minus COGS. Compensation.

startup 79

startup incumbents accelerator sustainability 79

TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

So, by stepping up, we enable ourselves to go into more generous funds as well as tech funds [that] have a minimum bar. In a perfect world, the answer is no, because realizations equal investments, so you are self-sustaining. But by their very nature, they tend to be small-cap funds, and there’s not that many of them in the U.K.

VC 102

VC venture capital incumbents capital 102

Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 6, 2023

Market : how to compete with incumbents? Startups have negative time to launch in many markets with Adobe, Microsoft, & Salesforce launching Gen AI enabled software in weeks. Usage & distribution, like in classical SaaS, are likely the most sustainable & repeatable. Moats : how to develop competitive advantage?

incumbents 88

incumbents startup SaaS sustainability 88

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

“Enterprises crave control and visibility over the finances, and this not only helps the IT department, but [also] enables all departments to make better aligned business decisions,” he added. Hoag notes that Teampay is low-code and doesn’t require custom development. billion in 2021.

economic environments 86

economic environments incumbents financing finance 86

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. So we made it our mission to build and steward a self-sustaining, open ecosystem that produces the best AI systems for humanity.”

incumbents 91

incumbents communities enablement strategy 91

TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

“We combined the best of visual generative AI technology and responsible AI practices to create a sustainable model that prioritizes these considerations.” Bria’s platform enables businesses to create visuals for social media posts, ads and e-commerce listings using its image-generating AI.

startup 98

startup incumbents data collection construction 98

TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

“I set out to answer that problem and defeat the incumbent solution — the clipboard — and that’s the seed that became Infogrid today.” “There is a major transformation underway in real estate as people reduce their footprint and are forced to take sustainability seriously,” De Gruchy said.

real estate 86

real estate energy incumbents sustainability 86

American Entrepreneurship

MAY 18, 2023

Quilt’s design enables room-by-room control, creating precise climate zones throughout the home while eliminating the need for traditional furnaces and ductwork. However, most heat pump systems today are more difficult to use than their more mature fossil incumbents. Its mission is to move humanity off fossil fuel heating.

capital 52

capital ventures investment investing 52

Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 22, 2024

Since we’re in the “land grab” phase of generative AI adoption, including your generative AI feature in your core offering can also make your product more appealing than offerings from incumbents and other startups. Packaging as an add-on can: Monetize your innovation directly, which leads to more sustainable margins over the short term. (If

SaaS 123

SaaS frameworks incumbents founder 123

TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

The company claims to be the first supermarket in Mexico with no physical store that enables customers to buy groceries directly from its website, or an app, and Jüsto will deliver the order to the customer’s location of choice. Mexican online grocer Jüsto raises $65M in General Atlantic-led Series A. is poised to be a $187.7 billion in 2020.

capital 92

capital venture capital incumbents sustainability 92

Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 28, 2012

Implicitly, these investment are bets that new, more lucrative and sustainable revenue streams or more cost effective distribution channels will develop in the next 1 to 3 years that will enable these startups to grow into their valuations with time. Perhaps new mobile ad technology will enable social networks to flourish.

investment 40

investment investing social gaming incumbents 40

TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

“Establishing a healthy and sustainable community has to do a lot with managing emotions, negativity in particular,” Daily.dev co-founder and CEO Nimrod Kramer explained to TechCrunch. Kramer reckons that most of the incumbents are either too general or too focused on specific problems.

mix-use 93

mix-use communities incumbents collaboration 93

OurCrowd

AUGUST 14, 2019

While incumbent competitor Mattress Firm began a process of consolidation and subsequently filed for bankruptcy in 2018, Casper announced it would be opening 200 retail locations across the US. CB4 , for example, has developed machine learning software that enables retail chains to solve operational issues that hamper sales.

sustainability 51

sustainability incumbents technology strategy 51

Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 14, 2016

Inexpensive equity dollars enable capital-intensive companies to amass the warchest necessary to dethrone incumbents. To sustain these growth rates and reach the levels of market liquidity they have, startups like Uber and AirBnB require massive amounts of cash.

real estate 40

real estate startup incumbents sustainability 40

Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 12, 2023

When it comes to purchasing AI solutions specifically, some organizations have a predisposition to buying from larger incumbents, so be sure to have a crisp value proposition for why they should partner with a startup over a larger incumbent with whom they’re already working.

incumbents 114

incumbents health frameworks strategy 114

Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 18, 2019

The direct listing enables them to go public without raising capital. And incumbents desire as much of that as possible for themselves. If a few of those IPOs do well, greed will sustain market valuations. Startups begin to siphon off important but underserved segments of SaaS incumbent's customer bases. wrong and 3.5

incumbents 73

incumbents SaaS sustainability collaboration 73

TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2022

It’s another example of an incumbent recognizing that it makes more sense to buy a company that has developed technology that it wants rather than building it out itself – a process that would take far longer and require more resources than a simple acquisition would. “We Fast slows its roll. Payments and infrastructure, oh my .

startup 110

startup financing finance incumbents 110

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Tech startups have great app experiences and big brand budgets, but they don’t know how to deliver sustainably so they burn through VC cash waiting for robots, drones, autonomous vehicles and bionic duckweed to shore up the bottom line”. I don’t see how the incumbent U.K. And that’s always been key to how we operate”.

incumbents 89

incumbents VC enablement sustainability 89

Y Combinator

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Problems & Ideas: Financing as a service for building electrification Contractor enablement Finding ways (at scale) to add trust as well as ensure accountability Improving the quote lifecycle to reduce time spent (and truck rolls), automate system design, and improve installed system performance.

energy 97

energy startup transportation construction 97

TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Today, the changed funding landscape and uncertain global economic outlook pose new challenges for space operators looking to turn their innovative technologies and concepts into sustainable businesses. How To Compete Without Losing Your Mind Or Runway When Cash Is Expensive. We love a competitive startup category here at TechCrunch.

disruption 81

disruption pitching VC ventures 81

Revolution

DECEMBER 23, 2024

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.

startup ecosystem 189

startup ecosystem startup incumbents venture capital 189