Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Innovator’s Dilemma – In his seminal book, “The Innovator’s Dilemma,&# Clay Christensen talks about why industry leaders almost always fail to act when “disruptive change&# enters their business. Incumbents can’t react. So why on Earth should Netflix split into two businesses?

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 6, 2022

As I’ve explored web3 I’ve been forming a mental model of the major innovations powering this enormous wave of innovation. Because this technique is so new, startups have the upper hand: Innovator’s Dilemma redux. Crypto empowers open-source projects to monetize their innovation in a way web2 never achieved.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

I have always loved watching videos there but always believed that any company controlled by a consortia of interests would be doomed in the long run – especially by established, large incumbents with an interest in protecting the past more than innovating the future. Boxee was created to give us this experience. The Road Ahead?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Others may call this dichotomy digital versus physical, the disruptor mindset versus the incumbent mindset, start-up world versus Fortune 500, or tech culture versus industrial culture. Amid the insistent drumbeat of digital transformation, those traditional, old-fashioned competencies are easily overlooked and underappreciated.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

They are the classic case of the Innovator’s Dilemma because they fundamentally can’t innovate on their product and can’t lower costs or their business craters. They have high-priced property and zero innovation. It’s no wonder incumbents don’t want us to exist. The Early Years.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2015

Innovation. Most customers won’t drive more than a few miles to a self storage unit making the incumbents essentially local retail businesses. It is the classic “innovator’s dilemma” and we know how that ends. How valuable are these legacy businesses? And they have. The value prop is pretty clear.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 16, 2020

When conducting interviews, be sure to ask for specific examples of each candidate’s ability to act decisively; look for a quick, strategic mind that can develop and implement innovative solutions. Meanwhile, it’s incumbent on you as the CEO to create an environment that encourages action-oriented behavior. Communicative.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Incumbents have lept onto advances in generative machine learning more aggressively than any trend in recent technology history. But generative ML differs because incumbents are pushing the envelope. In addition to these the advantages, these incumbents have another edge : their distribution.

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Founders Coop

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

The money fountain is sputtering just as the first real innovation in a decade roars into view. LLMs are compute and energy hogs, and renting state of the art bundles of compute and energy by the millisecond is what tech incumbents do best. Will selling AI tools to incumbents prove more valuable than “full-stack” competitive attacks?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 17, 2017

I’ve been involved with several startups where a giant incumbent attacks you and tries to sue you out of existence. This Goliath imposed fight by ADT is particularly annoying for me because Ring is literally my family’s single favorite tech innovation of the past several years. The first instinct is fear, then dread, then panic.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 7, 2024

” If no major incumbent can acquire a smaller company for fear of antitrust, all the incumbents can breathe : they can decide to build an a competing product with less risk of being outmaneuvered. If a supermajority of acquirers in purchasing potential are sidelined, the urgency to innovate is lessened.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

We look at huge markets where there are large incumbents that might not be incented to innovate or react to what they perceive as an insurgent. Big companies just don’t seem to innovate the same way. We will invest pre-revenue and even pre-product if we have discovered the right team in the right kind of market.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

We believed then, as we do now, that fintech represents one of the most exciting major innovation cycles of this decade. For the fourth straight year, the publicly traded fintechs massively outperformed the incumbent financial services providers as well as every mainstream stock index. Public fintech stocks rose 97% in 2020.

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Gust

JULY 27, 2014

Those are hard, since someone has to invent something innovative, but I do have some views on other ideas whose time has come and gone. There may be room here for something really innovative, but just a better user interface, people prioritized results, or one millisecond faster will probably not do it.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

They point out perceived market risks, they might question the management team’s experience, they might worry about regulatory risk or incumbent competitive powers. .” So other partners at the firm might sling mud at your ideas as you go for approval on an investment.

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Dream It

MAY 13, 2020

Enterprise Sales | Are health systems engaging with innovation right now? Enterprise Sales | Are health systems engaging with innovation right now? They are putting investments on innovation on hold to prioritize patient and workforce survival and stabilization. In short, health systems are very distracted right now.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

The key purpose of being end-to-end is to deliver an even better value proposition to consumers relative to incumbent alternatives. Incumbents in these industries are very large and entrenched, but they are legacy players, making them slow to adopt new technology.

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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

Starling — which competes against incumbent banks, as well as other challengers like Monzo and Revolut — said it will be using the money to continue its growth. That bigger market picture has also meant a surge of many neobanks, and so Starling competes with more than just the incumbents. billion) post-money.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

We profiled Rebag back in 2015, when its name included two “g’s,” (gotta love URL availability) and had raised $4 million in seed funding to go after incumbents like The RealReal.

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Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Right now I’m comfortable betting on innovation from small teams in the ‘approach,’ but if experimentation is gated by nine figures worth of licensing deals, we are doing a disservice to innovation. Model efficacy is roughly [ technical IP/approach ] * [ training data ] * [ training frequency/feedback loop ].

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 28, 2024

For new entrants looking to take advantage of the advent of LLMs and disrupt the status quo by going upstream of these incumbents, we’ve done a deep dive into Bloomberg, Morningstar, and Verisk’s stories. In doing so, each built the beginnings of what are now category-defining businesses.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 24, 2024

Customers & startups will benefit from this intense competition with better models, cheaper inference costs, & faster innovation as the incumbents spend their massive balance sheets to exert the greatest AI gravity. AWS cut prices more than 100 times in its first five years. History will rhyme with AI.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

Sennder competes with large incumbents like Wincanton and CH Robinson, as well as other startups such as OnTrac and Instafreight. 2020 highlighted the value that Sennder’s innovative digital offering brings to the freight industry.”. The European logistics and freight sector has a market size of $427 billion.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Startups are innovation machines. Others want to innovate in every dimension and re-invent every discipline from pricing to marketing to support to customer success. Others want to innovate in every dimension and re-invent every discipline from pricing to marketing to support to customer success. We wanted to be innovative.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 28, 2018

So it’s incumbent on you to know what a smart business plan and use of cash looks like. VCs want to fund innovations but they are also very cognizant of how much firm risk they can take on given the size of their fund and the number of deals they want to do per fund. We’d love to see you again when you have a little bit more traction.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

He said he learned from working with Marc Benioff at Salesforce that you can make money and still build trust with the people buying your product.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 30, 2023

Incumbents have seized the moment with Microsoft, Adobe, & others integrating generative AI into their products quickest. My marketing professor in grad school wrote an equation on the board the first day of class : Innovation = Innovation + Distribution. In response, startups must develop moats to stake out their market.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 1, 2021

Let’s talk about the innovation and then the implications. The architecture enables SaaS companies to reimagine the largest categories of software and rebuild them to challenge the incumbents. This may be the next shift. Data arrives from various systems, is transformed, and stored in Snowflake.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 12, 2019

At GLC, he will address the rapid pace of change, innovation and disruption facing us all?and We’ll explore how organizations can harness the uncertainty they’re faced with and turn it into excitement, innovation and success. Reinvent your incumbent enterprise before you’re disrupted by another, or you risk becoming obsolete.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 30, 2023

The company’s aim is to enable space access at greatly reduced risk, cost, and environmental impact compared to incumbent solutions. These advances will play an important role in developing other space technologies in Singapore and add to the vibrancy of Singapore’s innovation ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2021

Hundreds of startups dot the landscape, and the amount of money being raised and spent on innovating around the country’s industrial heft is mind-boggling. 2014 might have been the last year it was economically feasible to start such a business due to the soaring cost of acquiring customers and the strength of incumbents,” he said.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

” Going up against incumbents. Third-party providers, mostly fintechs, have tried to capture some market share from these incumbents. Whereas the incumbents mostly focus on USSD (although there are provisions to use applications), Wave is solely app-based. Wave, however , wants to disrupt it.

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Dream It

JULY 24, 2020

Find out how incumbent products you are likely to replace are performing. Figure out their vision To grab a CISO’s attention, your story should clearly establish how your solution will fit into their broader vision and roadmap. This works in your favor. What projects are in the pipeline? When pitching to a CISO, preparation is key.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Will an incumbent copy us and destroy us? If you have a number of incumbents in your space, do some research and see how they have reacted to other startups. If they tend to copy their features and innovations and then crush them, less great. If they tend to acquire them, great. Does this feature make sense to our customers?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

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. The technology industry is often thought of as being the domain of the young and the new.

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StartupNation

MARCH 16, 2021

What separates successful entrepreneurs from the failing masses is the use of innovation to reduce risk and decrease the odds of failure. Innovation is how new ideas, solutions, methods and products make it into the world; and innovation is most successful when it solves existing customer problems.

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