Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 21, 2021

Thinking beyond traditional approaches towards growth Image credits: [link] You’re a tech founder with a vision of building a product that will establish and dominate a brand-new category. You have an initial product, and maybe even raised capital. Starting small and focused?—?on on both the customer side and the internal side?—?will

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

Even the hottest startup categories are not immune from the venture slowdown by Anna Heim originally published on TechCrunch

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 8, 2019

Blockchain is clearly the category with the steepest slope. Software - up more than 3x, Software is a perennial category. Analytics - surprisingly, this category has seen its zenith. A contrarian might found a company in a deflating category; a counter-argument might be to ride the next big wave and start there.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 15, 2021

Suppose you’ve started a company that’s creating a category. Do you spend aggressively to create the category or conserve capital, knowing education will take time? New categories form at unpredictable rates because each market has distinct nuances. I’ve watched buyers in new categories. Product matters.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Coinbase also has a comparatively modest “subscription and services” revenue category, which was worth around $20.7 The cryptocurrency exchange generates the vast majority of its revenues from transaction revenues, as anticipated. million in Q4 2020 revenues. However, the $3.0

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Smart Hustle Magazine

AUGUST 27, 2021

The July 2021 B2B Pulse report states that among the five high growth categories, commercial service equipment and sports & entertainment saw the most growth year-on-year 141% and 65% respectively. Here are more details about industry-wise growth in these two categories: PC: Alibaba. Now, schools and offices reopening.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

While Alt’s initial focus was sports cards — a category that founder Leore Avidar knows quite well — it has recently expanded to support other types of trading cards. Poke around its exchange and you’ll already find first edition Charizards and Yu-Gi-Oh!

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 25, 2024

In a sense, selling AI agents is analogous to category creation. About a decade ago, Nick Mehta & the Gainsight team created the customer success category. Gainsight’s category creation set the standard for many future categories ; Monte Carlo in data observability is another.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 23, 2021

The pros and cons of creating your own brand category Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Imagine staying at an Airbnb and becoming so attached to a particular chair or tea set that you want to buy it. Instead of asking the property owner where it’s from and tracking it down, Minoan Experience lets you order the product by scanning a QR code. Then it’s delivered to your home in a few days.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 16, 2024

As a result, to win in each category, we needed to expand from one great investor in each segment to a dedicated investing team with a differentiated platform in each category to help the best founders in those fields build amazing companies.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 8, 2024

Beyond the inherent interest of these rankings, however, the data reveals several noteworthy trends around new and expanding categories, AI investment, and patterns of engagement. Read more on where we see potential in the AI music category here ). The second notable new category on the list is productivity.

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 9, 2023

The post [Stellar Cyber in Business Wire] Stellar Cyber Open XDR platform wins ASTORS awards in three categories appeared first on OurCrowd Blog. Stellar Cyber’s Open XDR platform won a Platinum Award for Best SIEM Solution and scored Gold awards for Best Cybersecurity Solution and Best Network Security Solution. Read more here. .

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OurCrowd

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The post [Juganu in WebWire] Israeli startup Juganu wins the regional category at Groupe Renault Hackathon “Licence to Clean” appeared first on OurCrowd Blog. Read more here.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 19, 2023

The post [VidMob in GlobeNewswire] VidMob Wins 2023 LVMH Award in the ‘Image and Media for Brand Desirability’ Category and joins the LVMH accelerator program ‘La Maison des startups’ appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

This marks the second straight year that CyberX was recognized for its innovative technology and overall contribution to the cybersecurity industry, having won last year’s Cybersecurity Excellence awards in three separate categories. Read more here.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In which categories do incumbents dominate—and where are new companies breaking out? Thus, this ranking serves as a tool to identify and understand category trends, and not as an exhaustive ranking of all consumer AI platforms. Alongside ChatGPT, this category includes Google’s Bard and Quora’s Poe, all ranked in the top 5.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 17, 2021

From time to time, I chart the fastest growing categories of startup investment in the US for seed through Series C. Here are 2015 , 2017 , This year, I was certain the categories would have been influenced by COVID19. Quantum computing topped the list with a doubling of rounds. If you have a hypothesis, send me a tweet at @ttunguz.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Hailo’s breakthrough AI Chip, the Hailo-8 , won the award in the Embedded Technologies product category by the Consumer Technology Association. The post [Hailo in PR Newswire] Leading AI Chipmaker Hailo Recognized as CES 2020 Innovation Awards Honoree in Embedded Technologies Category appeared first on OurCrowd. Read more here.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Drawing from their global base of Sellers, the company has set up 10 categories featuring 50 businesses that the public can vote on through October 24 at 1 am PDT. The Square 50 features 50 businesses across 10 categories are as follows: The Inspiring Innovators: Businesses that diversified operations and built resiliency for the long term.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 22, 2020

Let’s say you’re creating a category. How do you do this when creating a new category? Recently, SaaS Office Hours at Redpoint had the privilege of chatting with Nick Mehta and Anthony Kennada about the way they created a category with customer success. In effect, they pool their capital to create the category.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

This category is very dog-dominated — dog owners spend, on average, $1,480 per year, while an average of $902 is spent annually by cat owners; therefore, there are a lot of dog-focused products, including food. “It However, we’re still really alone in bringing fresh food to the category and to cat parents.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 8, 2024

That the people most drawn to these categories of innovation for the national interest are here for deep reasons, and those reasons run deeper than the market opportunity. But what’s more is how she is equally appreciated for her empathy, her humanness, her responsiveness, and her ability to support founders through the unknown.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2022

is a really apt term is I’m just naming certain categories of software that I know well, but I fail to see a future where all of those [categories], given the advances in compute and data and algorithms, don’t get more intelligent. Visual generation is not an existing software category. The reason I think that software 3.0

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 21, 2024

Founded in 2018 the audio entertainment platform is filling a gap, creating a new entertainment category in the form of audio series. They are not just building a new category but democratizing the entertainment landscape with a tech-driven approach,” said Harsha Kumar, Partner at Lightspeed.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

We are clearly the creators of this category and the leaders in it. When we came out with this, with the vector database category, nobody knew what the hell we’re talking about. And so it’s very easy to bet on the leader of a category that is already formed,” Liberty told TechCrunch.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 28, 2024

In doing so, each built the beginnings of what are now category-defining businesses. Modifying ratings schedules was particularly important in hard-to-insure categories like fire risk, where ISO created a single nationwide fire rating schedule that is still used today.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2023

The company has since launched over 15 brands in the past 12 months and over 2,000 SKUs in the categories of home and garden, sports and fitness and beauty and personal care categories. The company plans to double the amount of SKUs in the next year and enter into new product categories. It also reached profitability in 2022.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The top 100 products are ranked based on reviews across all categories in which they are a part. To qualify for the best Security software list, products must be listed under one or more of the Security software categories. Scores reflect only data from reviews submitted during this evaluation period.

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 31, 2024

Zoomcar announced a new product category on its platform called the Thrift Store. This new product category is a powerful move by the recently NASDAQ listed company, Zoomcar, offering up to 50% lower pricing for same day bookings and up to 30-45% off for next day bookings paving the path to new found affordability and […]

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 22, 2023

When looking at the industry of Early and Mid-stage ET30 2023 companies, AI models and tools again led the stage category with 40% of List companies, with 25% data platforms, ETL and BI, 20% SaaS, and 15% dev and devops tools. Early-stage companies ascended to the Enterprise Tech 30 more quickly with the 2023 cohort having a 2.3

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Mentalaba.uz, a disruptive project focusing on revolutionizing education in Uzbekistan, secured the top spot in the category of “Information technologies in the social sphere.” […] The post Mentalaba.uz

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

DECEMBER 1, 2023

About the Entrepreneur’s Cup The Entrepreneur’s Cup is a statewide collegiate business plan competition that simulates the real-world process of researching a market, writing a business plan and making a presentation to potential investors.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In almost every category, the time between rounds is also at decade highs. Across rounds for the 50th & 75th percentile of companies, step-up valuations are the lowest multiples in about ten years. The time between rounds has also lengthened - something all of Startupland felt throughout 2023.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2022

milk industry is a $15 billion category with 90% penetration, according to John Talbot, the CEO of the California Milk Advisory Board. For others, it’s a cursed liquid that causes tummy troubles. Even with the shelves of alt milks crowding grocery store coolers these days, the U.S.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Between the emergence of Stripe, Plaid, and other category-defining decacorns; the continued launches of financial services offerings from non-banks like Apple … The post Foundations for Successful Fintech Infrastructure (and Several Tradeoffs to Consider) appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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