TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2020

A framework for how to think of higher education’s main three products (including which is most defensible over time). SaaS is continuing to be reshaped by consumer internet techniques, with top companies of our era competing through word-of-mouth growth versus incumbent sales forces.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

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. The incumbent solutions were designed for on-premise, monolithic architecture. region- or product-specific) content. Image Credits: Kontent.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

This is often seen in ad tech or any type of optimization technology. Consider whether your startup is differentiating on pricing to compete with an incumbent, or if you’re selling a superior product at a premium, in which case using the same pricing model with higher fees reinforces your brand positioning.

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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. “Our personalized federated learning technology … enable[s] machine learning teams to fine-tune their models to improve performance on individual cohorts.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 22, 2024

Effectively monetizing any new technology is a race to capture market share while still giving yourself room to grow your business. 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.

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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

payments landscape is currently dominated by legacy and new-age incumbents, and we know competition would ultimately deliver better outcomes for consumers. These events underscore the need for a clear regulatory framework. While we’ve grown a lot in APAC and EMEA, the U.S. What do you see overall for the payments industry in 2023?

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 22, 2014

Taleb summarized his view on the theory in an op-ed titled “ The Surprising Truth: Technology is Aging in Reverse ,” published in Wired in 2012. To which I respond: The Lindy Effect is not about every technology, but about life expectancy — which is simply a probabilistically derived average. Same with ceramic plates.

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Unvalidated Learnings

JUNE 8, 2017

As such, the history of the MP3 gives an excellent framework to anticipate how disruptive 10x innovations impact a market, and who the winners and losers of such breakthroughs will be. incumbents simply did not have the right teams to adapt to the changing environment. I wouldn’t be able to recognize a good technology person?—?anyone

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

To create a framework for founders who are charting a path from $1 million to $25 million in annual revenue, Arthur Nobel, a principal at Knight Capital, conducted 47 interviews with founders and investors who’ve taken startups from Series A to C. 3 questions startups must answer before taking on their largest competitors.

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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?&# until the technology matures?&#. or “What would happen if we didn’t bid for 3G services and in stead built our network on 2.5G

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

It’s been on the lips of a growing number of investors on the hunt for disruptive opportunities blockchain-based technologies can offer. Does the ability to make users collective owners in the platform’s success give you an advantage over web2 incumbents? I doubt it’s the first time you’ve been asked that question.

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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

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

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Unity, Unreal, Roblox and Godot – the predominant 3D engines – are all 15+ year old technologies architected for a different era of computing. Today, we’re entering an age where creative technology will allow anyone to create virtual worlds and bring their imaginations to life. What is a Next Generation 3D Creation Engine?

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

Frameworks To Become A Billionaire. Or you don't do that that framework? Yeah, I have that framework. Sam: for me, yeah, I have that framework. give me one or two kind of technologies or ideas right now, spaces that are most exciting to you at the moment. Because people don't love the incumbent right now.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Unlike CMOs who have all sorts of media optimization platforms, content creation tools and social listening software, and CTOs who have countless frameworks, repositories, CI and code-enhancement collaboration tools, CFOs still rely mostly on spreadsheets and ERPs – and in some companies even fax machines.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

If it were a human, it would be addicted to technology (which it is) and starting to get an attitude (again, yes). It seems to be true accessibility in a framework that works with the existing U.S. Disrupt is turning 12 years old. healthcare infrastructure, but we’ll hear from CEO Toyin Ajayi about the work that remains to be done.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 13, 2024

Marc: Yeah, so there’s a great kind of breakdown on adoption of new technology that the science fiction author, Douglas Adams, wrote about years ago. He says any new technology is received differently by three different groups of people. AI, I think, so far is living up to that framework. I believe that it will.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

So if Internet and mobile technologies can be used to change real estate or transportation, why not healthcare? ” It’s worth noting that our primary focus was on technologies that aided and improved primary care, which is about half of the U.S. Simply put, there is amble room for improvement.

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