Both Sides of the Table
MAY 4, 2015
It has become so synonymous with Internet companies that the French have invented a disdainful term including Amazon: “les GAFA,” which they refer to as Google-Apple-Facebook-Amazon to talk about American dominance of the Internet. It is a household name. The value prop is pretty clear.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 7, 2011
Equally, I encouraged entrepreneurs to thoroughly reference check their VCs – you’ll learn much more from this than anything else. They incumbents might provide terrible products or services that you think you can better. I can’t tell you how incumbents will act and who else will choose to compete fiercely with us.
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Tomasz Tunguz
JULY 24, 2024
” Better for large enterprises to wait until there’s a reference architecture that’s been proven to work. So AI products aren’t electric motors with one or two moving pieces, but more like the gas powered engines with many moving parts. Plus, data movement is less expensive than in the previous era.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 8, 2021
Debt capital, which refers to capital raised by taking out a loan, is an alternative route that entrepreneurs should consider. Discount airlines, cell phones (not smartphones) and integrated circuits are good examples of the “faster, cheaper, simpler” variety, because they simply displaced familiar incumbents.
Dream It
JULY 24, 2020
As a startup, you may not have enough customer references, but referrals from peer CISOs who have signed up as design partners or completed successful PoCs are just as valuable. Find out how incumbent products you are likely to replace are performing. Your success with another CISO will get you instant street credibility.
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.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
Today, Akeyless is thriving, Angel tells me — despite fierce competition from incumbents like Hashicorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager and Google Cloud’s Secret Manager. In software development, “secrets” refer to credentials like passwords and access tokens. Image Credits: Akeyless.
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