Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2016

I was asked again in an LP meeting later in the week and then again at a founder breakfast gathering we hosted yesterday. I fall in love with both the founders and the concept. I spend hours thinking about the products, competitors, market opportunities, recruiting and financing of these businesses. I fall in love.”

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

A successful seed investor once remarked to me that he views “the traditional seed round” today for a good or proven founder to be akin to having a “ free first move on the chess board.” Speaking of acquisitions — many leaders of larger VC funds have privately given up on the incumbents buying their companies.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

If you think embedded insurance is the only hot thing in insurtech these days, we’ve got a surprise in store for you: While it’s true that startups that help sell insurance together with other products and services are enjoying tailwinds, there are plenty of other opportunities in the space, several investors told TechCrunch+.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

At the forefront of these changes is Binance founder and CEO Changpeng Zhao. The leader, commonly known as “CZ,” has managed to cultivate a celebrity status in the crypto space rivaled only by some of the space’s patron saints, including the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto and Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Many questioned whether it could survive under the fail whale, inevitable competition from Facebook, founder fighting, fights with 3rd-party developers let alone become a revolutionary business that could make money. I’m an equal opportunity funder but having a personal mission a few deals can be healthy, too. Far from it.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 13, 2019

Using the proliferation of newly GPS-enabled mobile devices to enable taxi hailing and beat out stagnant incumbent providers was always going to be a big win for consumers. It provided a better service than existing cabs were going to be able to do for at least several years—cutting out lots of unnecessary overhead in the system.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Of course, startups often manage to find a way to take down incumbents and a distraction for Carta, at least, in the form of a very public gender discrimination lawsuit by a former VP of marketing, could be the kind of opening that Pulley needs. YW: We think there are opportunities to white label the service for accountants and law firms.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

The founders felt that having a legitimate site for content would discourage Silicon Valley VC’s from funding entrepreneurs to create the next big TV killer. I have made many of my arguments in a blog post I wrote on The Innovator’s Dilemma , a concept that is critical for both innovators & incumbents to understand.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

ABOUT MY FIRST 16 Our new video podcast series My First 16 features interviews with founders and CEOs of fintech companies about how they acquired their initial customers and the hard lessons they learned along the way. Seema: Like so many of our founders, you had the pain point yourself and decided to go tackle it head on.

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Hunter Walk

MARCH 3, 2025

Of course Screendoor has an eye towards new VCs with identities, backgrounds and networks which are ADDITIVE to the venture ecosystem to better serve founders, so while the structure of the playbook is duplicative, the people running the playbook aren’t – and that’s the key.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

“Challenger” startups in banking and insurance have upended their industries, and picked up significant business, by building more customer-friendly tools and services — more personalized, easier to access and usually competitively priced — than those typically provided by their bigger, incumbent rivals.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2021

Challenger banks continue to see huge infusions of cash from investors bullish on the opportunity for smaller and faster-moving tech-based banking startups to woo customers from their larger rivals. Digital banking has reached a tipping point,” said Anne Boden, founder and CEO of Starling Bank, in a statement.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Co-founder of Owned Outcomes Krupa Srinivas explores the value of fear in an entrepreneur’s journey as she describes partnering with a US healthcare intermediary to solve the problem of cataloguing hospital supplies. This challenge spelled fear and opportunity in equal parts. We didn’t know the domain.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

Vignesh Chandramouli , a partner at Oak HC/FT, focuses on growth equity and early-stage venture opportunities in healthcare. As incumbent banks embraced startups, investors leaned into novel ways to reduce friction and improve accuracy, increasing annual mortgage origination by nearly 40% compared to the last decade. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Four big-name backers jointly led the round — Sequoia Heritage, a private investment fund and a subsidiary of Sequoia; Founders Fund; payments upstart Stripe; and Ribbit Capital. ” Going up against incumbents. . ” Going up against incumbents. Wave, however , wants to disrupt it.

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Hunter Walk

MAY 17, 2024

It’s also not an accident that, upon stepping back from being Textio’s CEO, I’ve built a sizable exec coaching practice working largely with early stage founders. Are there specific paths/opportunities in AI that you believe startups are actually better qualified to take advantage of than incumbents? Why does this happen?

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Founders Coop

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

For years after the dotcom bubble burst, being a founder was weird and hard. For founders, the past fifteen years were a dizzying elevator ride from scarcity to abundance, with a final wild peak of absurdity. So what’s a founder to do? Will selling AI tools to incumbents prove more valuable than “full-stack” competitive attacks?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

Lawrence Kosick is the co-founder of GetSetUp , the largest online learning community designed specifically for older adults. We see an emphasis on young founders (“40 Under 40”), innovative ideas and disruptive challenges to legacy brands, incumbent companies and “old” ways of thinking.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

2 Incumbent banks miss the mark in two crucial areas: The banking experience has not evolved to match modern consumer. In 2015, Monzo founders Tom Blomfield, Jonas Templestein, Gary Dolman, Jason Bates, and Paul Rippon launched a digital finance platform with the slogan “Make Money Work For Everyone.” expectations. Their profit models.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2021

Cards have an estimated payments volume of $900 billion per year, and yet 95% of these transactions are being processed by local incumbents, asserts Pomelo. This is a problem the company’s founders experienced firsthand in previous roles, and are eager to solve by creating a new payments infrastructure. “We incumbents. “It

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

CEO and co-founder Eugene Danilkis said it will be using the money to expand deeper in the 50 markets where it is already active, as well as focus more on specific regions like South America and Asia. Mambu was one of the first companies to leverage the opportunity to move banking software into the cloud,” he said in a statement.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

. “Our Tech Scouting program gives us unique insight about where opportunities for hyper-growth exist. But anticipating opportunity isn’t sufficient – we need to deploy capital to move at digital speed,” said Brian MacCarthy, vice president of tech scouting and ventures at Booz Allen.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2021

Incumbent giants therefore could lose a sizable chunk of market share if a company could just manage to weave together China’s manufacturing proficiency and agility with the modern tech startup philosophy of “moving fast and breaking stuff.”. The China opportunity. Finding a bigger wave to ride.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

They identify market opportunities, develop novel products and go out to change the world. Brad Birnbaum, founder and CEO of Kustomer , discussed the challenges of innovating on two dimensions simultaneously on the [Saastr podcast](). Prioritizing how to differentiate in the market is a key aspect of product management.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

Avid Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, BoxGroup, Colle, Foundation Capital, Greycroft, and Max Levchin’s SciFi VC — as well as more than a dozen angels including founders of Plaid, Flexport, Marqeta, Bread, Albert, Addi, Lithic, and other fintech and logistics startups — also put money in the round.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Small businesses are the backbone of the American economy yet banks do not have their backs, says CEO and co-founder Sahill Poddar. The two co-founders leveraged their tech backgrounds to pursue an entrepreneurial opportunity. The two co-founders leveraged their tech backgrounds to pursue an entrepreneurial opportunity.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

Jan Lynn-Matern , founder and partner, Emerge Education (a leading edtech seed fund in Europe with portfolio companies like Aula, Unibuddy, and BibliU) . Daniel Pianko , co-founder and managing director, University Ventures (a higher ed and future of work fund that is backing Imbellus and Admithub). Stats from McKinsey research.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Everyone knows that founders have been on a whipsaw over the past several years. That’s hard work, and founders should be commended for doing it. What should founders aim for in 2024? A Great company has a strong, defensible business model that can win market share from incumbents. So this raises the question: what now?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Human rights activist and Mos founder Amira Yahyaoui couldn’t afford to go to college, so when she first launched a platform to connect students to scholarships, the innovation felt full circle. Banks are trying to become relevant, but students don’t buy the BS that incumbents are doing.” Amira Yahyaoui, the founder of Mos.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

I caught up with Colin Walsh, the company’s chief executive and founder, to get an update. For me, there was a huge opportunity in a space that the incumbents were not able to capture because a lot of it is the economics of their model and misaligned incentives.The world continues to unfortunately be made up of haves and have nots….There

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Whenever I talk about minimal viable products with product-driven startup founders, I often find myself in a frustrating conversation. In the world of lean startups, founders have to stay hyper-focused on figuring out how to fail as fast as possible. Will an incumbent copy us and destroy us? Then go and figure that part out.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Some people are more excited by emerging areas like artificial intelligence, which has been a focus of the country’s military for years, and like cybersecurity is now producing many fresh teams of founders. What are some overlooked opportunities right now? What are some overlooked opportunities right now?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Laura Spiekerman is the co-founder and chief revenue officer of Alloy , an identity-decisioning platform for banks and fintech companies. Infrastructure providers have a unique opportunity to be a bright spot amidst all the doom and gloom. Laura Spiekerman. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

Today, one of the companies helping those larger banks with that task is announcing a big round of funding to double down on that opportunity. We want to double down on our go-to-market strategy, and to grow market share,” Jouk Pleiter, the founder and CEO of Backbase, said in an interview.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 8, 2019

FinTech - challenger banks, new electronic stock brokers, AI-powered investment advisors; startups are besieging the incumbents of this regulated world and assailing them in ever greater numbers. But the recent wave of consolidation (Tableau, Looker, Periscope) suggests more opportunity might beckon founders soon.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

EdgeQ , Kneron , and Hailo are among the dozens of upstarts vying for customers, the last of which nabbed $136 million in October as it doubles down on new opportunities. has created a software-centric, purpose-built … platform that exclusively targets this large market opportunity. “Sima.ai

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

Klar experienced a “7x” year-over-year increase in revenue and 4x bump in transaction volume over the same time period, according to Klar co-founder and CEO Stefan Möller. One advantage for Klar, according to Möller , is that its “cost to serve a user” is about 1/20 of what the incumbents pay. he told TechCrunch.

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