TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2023

But if you focus and leave your preconceptions behind, you’ll find that beyond the skein of valuations and share prices, there is a world of spirited dealmaking, ripe with impetus for building a sustainable industry. The questions our industry is grappling with are becoming more refined and nuanced, reflecting the necessary maturation.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The round was led by investors Aegon Asset Management and the Avenue Sustainable Solutions Fund. . “Intellihot reflects well upon our strategy to partner with great businesses that can deliver financial performance along with beneficial outcomes for society and planet.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

While working for strategic advisory firm Drystone Strategy, De Gruchy routinely visited companies that he was “diligencing” for private equity deals, including dairies, roofing companies and distribution warehouses. “This trains our AI, which is then refined with user feedback, making it better.”

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 28, 2012

Instead, investors are faced with a choice between two strategies. Option 1: pursue a contrarian growth strategy investing in a few consumer Internet companies at similar prices to the previous several years. It’s too early to tell which strategy is better. But consumer investment will continue.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 22, 2024

That said, we’ve outlined how we’re thinking about pricing and packaging in a part of the market that’s debating how to monetize their new genAI feature— B2B SaaS and prosumer companies —and how we’re seeing other companies approach the same question so you can better understand where your strategy fits in today.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

“We strongly believe that the way is not just by latching banking-as-a-service on a payments platform, but there has to be proper banking as a service platform built with the right infrastructure and go-to-market strategy. Nigerian fintech startup OneFi acquires payment company Amplify.

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 14, 2019

Today’s digital e-commerce successes aren’t merely developing strategies to expand beyond borders as quickly as possible – they are a new generation of firms that are “born online” and later build out physical spaces as they grow. Sustainability and Transparency. Technology is the key to the transition to sustainability.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Startups often overlook market research, specifically the market-in approach, but it is a crucial component of a successful, sustainable growth strategy. In-depth market research and analysis is necessary for startups to identify opportunities, develop strategies to take advantage of those opportunities, and then execute.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 17, 2013

The most dangerous strategy for any platform company is to price too high – to charge a greedy and overzealous rake that could serve to undermine the whole point of having a platform in the first place. High rakes also create a natural impetus for suppliers to look elsewhere, which endangers sustainability.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 12, 2023

As Paul Uhrig, Chief Legal and Digital Health Officer of Bassett Healthcare Network and Executive Director of Bassett Innovation Center told us, “if we can get the ultimate user excited and to be champions about this, that I found to be very much the winning strategy.” Transparency is critical.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2022

It’s another example of an incumbent recognizing that it makes more sense to buy a company that has developed technology that it wants rather than building it out itself – a process that would take far longer and require more resources than a simple acquisition would. “We Cross River Bank is not just any bank.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

The competition intensified further last year when American incumbents Beyond Meat and Eat Just entered China. Giving EV batteries a second life for sustainability and profit. Giving EV batteries a second life for sustainability and profit. Four strategies for getting attention from investors. Image Credits: Getty Images.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Successful companies will need founders that will be able to raise significant funding and will need successful strategies to maintain healthy margins in the early days and while scaling. On the cultivated meat side there have recently been regulatory breakthroughs giving us hope of these hitting the shelf soon.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 13, 2024

A $20 product can work with a product-led growth strategy (think Dropbox, OpenAI, Midjourney, etc). A $1M product can work with an outside sales strategy (think Workday, ServiceNow, Databricks, etc). There’s no question that AI will save incumbents money — along the lines of the Known Knowns here.

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Y Combinator

MAY 1, 2019

Jarvis Johnson [00:23:38] – Yeah, I think it’s just healthier because the point that I was getting at with that, is I hit a breaking point where I was like, this is no longer sustainable, because I don’t see my friends, or anything like that. Craig Cannon [00:37:56] – Weird strategy.

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A Smart Bear

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Startup strategy is like Kung Fu. Founders almost never have a real strategy. They say things like “we have a unique feature” and “the incumbents are dumb,” which might be true, but isn’t a strategy. If you can’t find one sustainable, sizable source of customers, the company is doomed. This is my style.

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