Dream It

JULY 24, 2020

This presents a huge opportunity for startups. Find out how incumbent products you are likely to replace are performing. To keep an organization safe, a CISO depends on as many as 50 to 100 different products. However, this means that a CISO sees a LOT of pitches in their role. This works in your favor.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2023

Anthony Cimino Contributor Share on Twitter Anthony Cimino , head of policy at Carta , works with policymakers and innovators to drive economic opportunity through expanding equity ownership and private market liquidity. And the scale of the SEC’s proposed reforms should alarm entrepreneurs, investors and employees in the innovation economy.

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Revolution

JUNE 10, 2019

While certain categories such as coworking, alternative accommodations, “ibuying”, brokerage, and construction (among others) have adorned the front pages of leading media outlets, we are still very much in the early innings of innovation in the space.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

And that really provided us with this advantage to quickly innovate and drive a ton of product velocity.”. Presently, the startup has over 650 employees and will also use its new capital to hire another 100 more or so people at its Winnipeg and Calgary campuses. There aren’t 6,000 regional banks,” Chau told TechCrunch.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

No matter how cutting edge or sophisticated, from a technology perspective, your product might be, you’ll still need to present compelling metrics to get a deal signed. so that you can present your product as a solution to that problem. If they’re not, you’re not a priority for the champion and therefore for the broader organization.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 21, 2017

Incumbent client/server technologies have lost their market dominance to new incumbents. Segmentation - focus on SMB, Mid-Market, or Enterprise, to play where competition isn’t present. The landscape is so vast - and the logos so minuscule - that it’s useful only as an illustration of competition.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

“There’s a big wave of innovation in managing cloud costs,” Team8 co-founder and managing partner Liran Grinberg told TechCrunch as part of our latest cloud investor survey. Indeed, the tailwinds we are referring to aren’t limited to the current macroeconomic climate. Microsoft in 2017 acquired Cloudyn [ … ].

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Yet, the sector is very much alive, and the “correction” of these companies’ valuations presents an opportunity for those who have cash left on their balance sheets, investors told TechCrunch. This may actually be a great moment for insurtechs to nurture their relationship with incumbents to work on synergies and potential trade sales.”

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 18, 2019

And incumbents desire as much of that as possible for themselves. In it, 65% of founders believe the fundraising market in 2020 will present more challenges than 2019. The ecosystem continues to innovate but the second killer app (currency being the first), hasn't yet been found. Distributed becomes the norm.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Unlike incumbent credit card issuers, we aren’t incentivized by slapping fees on borrowers for making late payments — we make money as our cardholders spend — so we grow as you grow,” Kim added. And we leverage your cash flow data to underwrite you.”.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

MAY 21, 2021

What does it say about us when we don’t allow certain groups of motivated, innovative, and optimistic people access to the resources they need to start up and scale up? It is incumbent upon those of us working to build vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystems to put inclusion front and center, at the heart of everything we do.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Kettle’s longer-term plan is to expand to more disaster types, and more states, in the coming years, but for now, fires in California present a particularly acute set of problems. “It’s the classic innovator’s dilemma.” 2020 saw over 4% of the state burning. That can be a truly life changing thing.”

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 22, 2024

That said, we are seeing more enterprise companies reallocate genAI spend from innovation lines to standard software lines , which indicates that genAI is evolving into a key part of many enterprises.) Packaging as an add-on can: Monetize your innovation directly, which leads to more sustainable margins over the short term. (If

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Haystack

JUNE 5, 2018

This presents a big change for Microsoft , who in a different era would’ve have looked so favorably toward open source — they will sunset internal repository Codeplex in an effort to bring Microsoft tooling to a new cadre of developers. And yesterday, another feather in the cap — GitHub. 5/ “Decentralized Everything?”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

A great amount of talent is cultivated in the military, which has spawned innovative cyber, AI and machine-learning companies. Same as VC funds are deeply acquainted with Silicon Valley, tech investors cannot ignore this hub of innovation that has produced global market leading companies and serial entrepreneurs.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2022

This includes long-established incumbents such as Unity, developed by tech powerhouse Unity Software, which is currently in the process of merging with IronSource. “The result is reduced development costs and more freedom to innovate,” Linietsky said. ” The open source factor. .

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 22, 2014

Jill LePore’s New Yorker polemic “ The Disruption Machine ” attempts to debunk the incredibly popular Innovator’s Dilemma, a theory written by HBS professor Clayton Christensen. People often counter my argument by presenting such examples. I’ve been reading the debate around it with some interest.

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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. The MP3 is a perfect case study of Innovator’s Dilemma. incumbents simply did not have the right teams to adapt to the changing environment.

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Unvalidated Learnings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Both approaches complement each other, especially for innovative tech companies which typically disrupt an existing market by undercutting the incumbents on the one hand ( and hence shrinking the market), while creating a new use case attracting a larger number of new users on the other hand.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Of course, this vision came to reality through the games industry (which is often the tip of the spear for technological innovations). Ultimately, these engine unbundling approaches are market wedges to find soft spots where a new creation tool can provide 10x improvement over incumbents. What is a Next Generation 3D Creation Engine?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2021

While Nigeria and Kenya have been at the forefront of African fintech innovation, activities in Egypt are beginning to shape up nicely. Asides from Egypt, Paymob is also present in Kenya, Pakistan, and Palestine. The pandemic presented one of the best opportunities for fintechs all over the world to achieve massive growth.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 5, 2022

But it is illustrative of the measures that financial services companies — incumbents and fintechs alike — are taking to make their installment loans available to more consumers. In other words, it wants to help fintechs be in a stronger position to compete with incumbents, something it believes will benefit consumers.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

When you look at all the different areas of any enterprise company in LatAm, the CFO function is clearly the one that has had the least innovation,” said Karpovsky. Presently, Mendel has 70 employees and it expects to end 2022 with 200. ” The corporate spend space is an increasingly crowded one. Image Credits: Mendel.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Nothing drives tech innovation like sex. Today, the changed funding landscape and uncertain global economic outlook pose new challenges for space operators looking to turn their innovative technologies and concepts into sustainable businesses. Building the Visual Economy Through Developer-Led Innovation.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

4:03] Jambot demo [7:02] Human vs. AI creativity [13:37] Applying AI to design [14:31] Startups vs. incumbents Will AI replace designers? The input contains the topics I’m going to cover in a presentation at the conference. Please suggest a list of ideas for a fun and novel title for this presentation. It’s so early.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 13, 2024

In this fireside chat from the American Dynamism Summit , a16z Cofounder and General Partner Marc Andreessen sits down with economist, podcaster, and polymath Tyler Cowen to discuss the state of innovation in America, from recent AI advances to growing support for nuclear power. What’s the worst thing about it? Marc: Yeah.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

We should be looking at China for the real innovations now. ” Bill Gurley : That’s presenting the argument a very specific way where you’re forcing them to opt into something else instead of just opting out. We talk a lot about the Singaporean healthcare system, which has become definitely an obsession of mine.

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