Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Much of this can trickle down into the startup ecosystem. On top of this, the cost of bringing projects online has fallen, it’s become more fashionable to play the startup game, and so forth. Speaking of acquisitions — many leaders of larger VC funds have privately given up on the incumbents buying their companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Today Upfront Ventures is announcing that we’ve backed Rebecca Kantar ’s startup Imbellus , a company designed to assess human potential and ultimately change the way we teach children. When a founder is “opportunity driven” it’s too easy to quit at the first bump in the road.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Market Opportunity. We always say that great opportunities are composed of a world-class team addressing a big & disruptive market opportunity. By definition the market is already large and therefore crowded or it’s nascent and the opportunity is not totally clear. But what about markets? Think about Twitter.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2016

I was speaking recently to the team at NuOrder , an LA-based company we’re an investor in about “realism in startups” — an impromptu talk I have given to any of our portfolio companies who ask. I spend hours thinking about the products, competitors, market opportunities, recruiting and financing of these businesses.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

There were many moments in each space when pioneers were funding startups and the press hadn’t written much about them and if you were a typical investor you were still funding the last trend while some VCs were trailblazing into new categories. .” Startup Lessons' Almost nobody believed and now look at 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. There’s no reason why a culture needs to fall apart at the seams in a hypergrowth startup.

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Andreessen Horowitz

AUGUST 30, 2023

TABLE OF CONTENTS Bits v atoms It’s important to recognize that while the impact that generative AI can have on “bits” is substantial—since generative AI can “manipulate” those bits very easily—we’re probably too early to see a massive opportunity in “atoms” businesses. As technology continues to improve, the answer is an unequivocal “yes.”

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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. In the current structure I cannot see how Hulu becomes this company.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

The move signals Booz Allen’s desire to shape startups in areas it considers aligned with its core business, mainly AI and machine learning, defense, and cybersecurity. “Our Tech Scouting program gives us unique insight about where opportunities for hyper-growth exist. In the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Israel’s startup ecosystem raised record amounts of funding and produced 19 IPOs in 2020, despite the pandemic. Subscribe to access all of our investor surveys, company profiles and other inside tech coverage for startups everywhere. Are there startups that you wish you would see in the industry but don’t? More than 50%?

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Startups are innovation machines. They identify market opportunities, develop novel products and go out to change the world. There are spaces where pricing innovation is welcome, especially when there is a large, expensive incumbent. Prioritizing how to differentiate in the market is a key aspect of product management.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In this episode, a16z partner Seema Amble talks with co-founder and CEO of Mercury Immad Akhund about the idea of a minimum delightful product in fintech, doing the spreadsheet math on unit economics early on, and how to compete in a category already filled with incumbents. So it was kind of in the back of my mind for a long time.

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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. It allows him the opportunity to do what he does best, finding and motivating entrepreneurs then thinking through market strategy. The Startup Visa movement. The Case Foundation. -

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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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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

The startup ecosystem is a terrific manufacturer of bad fundraising advice. Well, if you add it to your startup, it does a few things. We’ve seen studies on how men and women get asked different questions, but I also think it’s incumbent upon all founders to control the conversation. What are the characteristics of this product?

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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. 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.

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Hunter Walk

MARCH 3, 2025

In these cases we’re asking ourselves, can this individual/partnership execute a ‘known’ playbook better than incumbents, because it’s not very interesting to put people in business who are going to be Traditional But Average. But we’re interested in taking this risk when the person and opportunity warrants it.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

CZ will join our stage virtually and we’re looking forward to discussing global market opportunities in a bear market, the regulatory challenges up ahead and where opportunities are (and aren’t) in web3. earned new investment as it strives to topple incumbents like Coinbase. Competitors have also been taking notice.

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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. That bigger market picture has also meant a surge of many neobanks, and so Starling competes with more than just the incumbents.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

Telemedicine, the standout offering, witnessed massive adoption during the pandemic, and in the last five years, no other service has been launched more by healthtech startups. These startups digitize the supply chain and distribution to providers. However, a particular segment has achieved scale faster within the past year.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

We don’t want to be elitist, we don’t want to do this for a very small category of people because we really want to become the incumbent bank in the U.S.,” Banks are trying to become relevant, but students don’t buy the BS that incumbents are doing.” Beyond the mission, the startup’s new goal could attract some solid revenue.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 8, 2019

Which sectors see more startup company formation than others? Eight years ago, there were nearly zero AI startups seeded. Blockchain - another exponential curve that shows growth from 0 to 200 startups in eight years. Consumer preferences are evolving and startups are rising to meet the demand. Let’s take a look.

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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. startup ecosystem lost an important business partner. With the failure of Silicon Valley Bank, the U.S.

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Dream It

JULY 24, 2020

This presents a huge opportunity for startups. This is your opportunity to highlight it for them. As a startup, you may be ahead of the market with a next-generation product. Find out how incumbent products you are likely to replace are performing. Keep in mind, this spending is planned and budgeted.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

to “scale given the market opportunity.” Image Credits: ProsperOps Lots of cloud optimization startups claim to do the same, like Sync Computing. He claims that the startup currently has “several hundred” customers and that it’s been profitable and debt-free since Q4 2020. ” “H.I.G.

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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. Genki Forest, a Chinese direct-to-consumer (D2C) bottled beverage startup, is one such contender. The China opportunity. Finding a bigger wave to ride.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

A blueprint for building a great startup founding team. For startup founders, these words aptly describe the road ahead. Successful startups will inevitably draw the attention of powerful incumbents in their industry. Most startups follow one of two paths, and the first step is to determine which one you’re on.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Scaling a startup is hard. Scaling a startup bank is even harder. In April 2020, British banking startup Monzo’s revenue fell by almost 50%. 2 Incumbent banks miss the mark in two crucial areas: The banking experience has not evolved to match modern consumer. expectations. to expect.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 16, 2021

As the insurance industry adjusts to life in the 21st century (heh), an AI startup that has built computer vision tools to enable remote damage appraisals is announcing a significant round of growth funding. There are other companies that have also identified this opportunity.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

“We saw an opportunity to make a bigger impact by trying to build a better, much more affordable mobile money service than the telcos are building throughout much of sub-Saharan Africa,” Durbin told TechCrunch in an interview. ” Going up against incumbents. . ” Going up against incumbents.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 21, 2022

In addition, Lee shared his view on usage-based pricing and defending a startup’s great asset, talent, from poaching during the next recovery. UBP presented an opportunity to reinvent the account executive (AE) compensation model. During the Office Hours, we talked about startups repricing their equity with new 409a valuations.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Startups operating in the financial side of the real estate tech market suddenly faced a surge in demand, and many departed on hiring sprees to keep up. This meant that the once high-flying startups were suddenly dealing with the opposite problem — too many employees and not enough transactions to make money.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

In another example of how startups in the region are working to boost inclusion as much as innovation, Open Co , a São Paulo-based consumer credit company, announced today that it has raised $115 million in a round led by SoftBank Latin America Fund. This is one of the reasons you’re seeing so many fintechs emerge in Latin America.

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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. There is a massive opportunity to provide products and services that will make life better for today’s seniors and future generations of older adults to come.

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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

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. Lessons for Startups Bloomberg’s initial insight was to corner hard-to-access data and give it to customers in a usable format.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

Mambu , a Berlin-based startup that describes itself as an SaaS banking platform — providing, by way of APIs, technology to banks and others to power lending, deposit and other banking products — has closed a round of €110 million (about $135 million at today’s rates). That could lead to consolidation, too.

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