TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

As the demand for AI-powered apps grows, startups developing dedicated chips to accelerate AI workloads on-premises are reaping the benefits. He has a deep history of investing in deep tech startups that have gone on to disrupt industries across AI, data, semiconductors, among others.” After emerging from stealth in 2019, Sima.ai

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Most startups play defense when discussing pricing with customers. Startups operate in newer markets where pricing standards haven’t been set. But throughout this turmoil, startups must adopt a process to craft a good pricing strategy, and re-evaluate prices periodically, at least once per year. AWS, Twilio, Heroku, etc.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The MEDDICC Sales Framework To share what we’ve learned from the fintech founders and operators we’ve spoken to about this topic, we have collated their advice under an overarching sales framework known as MEDDICC. Keep in mind: this sales framework is not linear , and these steps should be taken in tandem, not sequentially.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

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. Clearly define success across measurable metrics. Deliver 1x-2x ROI within a year of launch.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The Mexico-based startup closed the $15 million Series A round and $20 million debt financing after participating in Y Combinator’s Winter 2021 cohort. based corporate spend startup that in June closed a $60 million Series B led by Menlo Ventures and whose CEO is an investor. all these companies are targeting the startups/SMB sector.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Skio, a startup that aims to take the pain out of selling subscriptions for brands on Shopify, has raised $3.7 Kennan Davison, an engineer who previously worked at Hulu and Pinterest, founded the startup in April. It claims to use modern frameworks that allow it to “build much quicker” than existing offerings.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Kontent launched in 2015 as an internal startup of 18-year-old bootstrapped software developer Kentico. Kentico was the brainchild of Petr Palas, who saw an opportunity to build a content management system (CMS) for developers using Microsoft’s.NET framework. region- or product-specific) content.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 22, 2024

We’re in the very early days of genAI and until adoption curves and costs stabilize, there won’t be any tried-and-true pricing or packaging frameworks. Though best practices are still emerging, we hope these frameworks help you better navigate the pricing and packaging process for your new genAI feature.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 1, 2013

When I’m meeting a startup for the first time, my goal is to understand as much about the business and team as I can. Business : In some form, I walk through the Business Model Generation framework: value proposition, key activities, key partners, major assets, channels of distribution, customer segments, cost structure and revenue streams.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

But a new startup, DynamoFL , hopes to take on the incumbents with a federated learning platform that focuses on performance, ostensibly without sacrificing privacy. The startup has four employees currently, with plans to hire 10 by the end of the year.) ” Recently, DynamoFL closed a small seed round ($4.15

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 19, 2016

Also called the marketing mix , these four variables need to be aligned when determining pricing for your startup. As startups scale and address incremental customer segments, the marketing mix becomes more complex. There are many different factors to consider, but a framework like the 4Ps can help prioritize the discussion.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2010

I found that I was always more curious about issues like “why do you charge for your web hosting services this way when newer non-incumbent players do not?&# Tags: Startup Advice. I must have given versions of that speech 20 times or more. And it’s true. until the technology matures?&#.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

She had previously served as the London-based fintech startup’s CFO and COO for about 18 months before her promotion. payments landscape is currently dominated by legacy and new-age incumbents, and we know competition would ultimately deliver better outcomes for consumers. While we’ve grown a lot in APAC and EMEA, the U.S.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2022

It’s basically a software framework that developers can use and reuse without having to redesign the wheel with each new game they create. This includes long-established incumbents such as Unity, developed by tech powerhouse Unity Software, which is currently in the process of merging with IronSource.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 29, 2014

This is the framework I’ve seen work well for freemium startups. Second, freemium startups leverage usage data to improve their product. Third, freemium startups gather information about their customer base to prioritize their sales efforts. Is there a common characteristic of successful freemium companies?

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

Does the ability to make users collective owners in the platform’s success give you an advantage over web2 incumbents? Will access to a shared, open, data layer make your offering more attractive than if you hoard the data in a proprietary database? Can you bootstrap one side (or both sides) of a marketplace through in-protocol incentives?

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 23, 2020

Internal data points are critical additions: adoption of new infrastructure technology, dissatisfaction with an incumbent vendor, budget availability, or a new project or initiative. Most of the time, these external signals won’t suffice.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2022

At TechCrunch Early Stage this month, we sat down with Felicis Ventures partners Viviana Faga and Niki Pezeshki to talk about scaling, product-market fit, and why it’s crucial to be “10x better” than the incumbents. Startups must be able to demonstrate that they have users that love their product. Product-market fit.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

But it feels like we have written far less about fintechs that exist solely to help the incumbents better compete with fintechs. So he set about creating digital assets, or a broader connectivity framework, that would allow Extend to help banks scale capabilities across their whole portfolio “and eventually all the way down to the consumer.”.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Understand the buyer’s roadmap, their build vs. buy framework, and their best alternative Once you’ve identified the buyer and, ideally, a champion for whom you’re solving a problem, the next step is to understand the buyer’s process. That ultimate user could be a physician or a specific administrative team member.

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Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

What I do believe is that we need to move quickly to create a ‘ safe harbor ‘ for AI startups to experiment without fear of legal repercussions so long as they meet certain conditions. Observability : Auditable, but not public, frameworks for measuring ‘quality’ of results. Incorporate here, pay taxes, create jobs?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2020

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Early Q3 indications show India’s startup ecosystem is going gangbusters. One more great quarter from India and a modest decline in China could see the former dethrone the latter for second place in the global startup market fundraising ranks.”. Early Q3 indications show India’s startup ecosystem is going gangbusters.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 22, 2014

Despite those flaws, both theories are incredibly useful as frameworks to describe industry dynamics. Enterprise incumbents, constrained by large costs-of-customer-acquisition, can’t compete with startups who acquire customers for near-free , harkening Christensen’s mini-mill analogy.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

Frameworks To Become A Billionaire. Sam: Prior to that, you had another startup that you sold for a significant amount of money, we can talk about that. Sam: You're an angel investor in a lot of different startups, including Coinbase and things like that. And we're going to talk about, do you ever invest in non startup stuff?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

But after a couple of years coming to you virtually, the world’s most impactful tech startup conference is coming back to real life. And in the name of coming back bigger and better than ever, the Disrupt Startup Battlefield has grown by 10x. Marc’s Lore: Startup Schemes, Utopian Dreams. Disrupt Stage Agenda.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 13, 2024

AI, I think, so far is living up to that framework. And so either with existing, you know, nuclear fission technology, or there’s actually a significant number, you know, now of new nuclear fission startups, as well as fusion startups working on new designs. I believe that it will. But we could. Marc: Yeah.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Eventually, however, we gained our footing and developed a mental model for the industry and a framework for where opportunities do exist. But that’s really just the starting point and that’s when I put out a Tweet three years ago and started meeting with digital healthcare [00:05:00] startups.

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