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The next wave of supply-chain innovation will be driven by startups that help incumbents win

TechCrunch

For years, the prevailing narrative for innovation in supply chain has focused on the disruptors: Upstarts that enter the industry with new technologies and business models to displace incumbents. But in verticals ranging from freight brokerage to B2B marketplaces, these enablers have repeatedly emerged after an initial disruption.

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

Both Sides of the Table

And let’s say this – they use zero technology today and I have yet to meet a single person who loves their self-storage provider. Most customers won’t drive more than a few miles to a self storage unit making the incumbents essentially local retail businesses. The value prop is pretty clear.

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Four Fundamental Innovations of Web3 that Will Upend Web2 Incumbents

Tomasz Tunguz

” Internet hegemons have decimated entire spaces: social networks, advertising technology, video streaming and rental, paid email, infrastructure. DAO/Foundations : open-source software is arguably the most important motive force powering innovation in technology. Paying customers in “equity.”

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

Both Sides of the Table

They incumbents might provide terrible products or services that you think you can better. If you look at Hulu and said, “the networks will never enable a strong competitor to broadcast TV you’d need to put your head in the sand. But these markets don’t have “white space.&# They might be large markets, sure.

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How a Little Bit of Fear Breeds Innovation

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Incumbent human processes were cumbersome, laborious, costly, slow and demoralizing. We started with the easiest problem that technology could attempt to solve. LESSON: Technology solves silicon-intensive problems and humans solve judgment-intensive ones. We love placing technology in service of tough problems.

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Open finance startup Ayoconnect’s APIs enable financial inclusion in Southeast Asia

TechCrunch

It is also licensed by Indonesia’s central bank, enabling it to offer more services. It works with regulators and incumbent banks, and was recently awarded a Bank of Indonesia (BI) Payment Service Provider Category 1 license. Ayoconnect says it is the only open finance player in Indonesia to be licensed by the central bank.

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End-to-end operators are the next generation of consumer business

TechCrunch

As consumers grew more comfortable with the web, marketplaces like eBay, Etsy, Expedia and Wayfair* emerged, enabling historically offline transactions to occur online. The key purpose of being end-to-end is to deliver an even better value proposition to consumers relative to incumbent alternatives.