TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The competition is the incumbent video conferencing platforms such as Zoom and Microsoft Teams, but calls on these platforms have a set agenda, and are timeboxed – they’re rigid and repetitive. You choose an avatar, then meet up with their colleagues or friends inside a browser-based game.

incumbents 103

incumbents collaboration culture board 103

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2016

I have to believe the founder is cost-focused, mission-driven and aligned on cultural values to me, which mostly relates to integrity and how to treat other people. I like over communicators who err on the side of transparency and candor. Innovator’s Dilemma. I prefer to compete more with other startups than with giants.

investing 254

investing investment incumbents culture 254

Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

They’ll have to back up the truck for their best companies, take acquisitions off the table, and go right after the incumbents head-on. Speaking of acquisitions — many leaders of larger VC funds have privately given up on the incumbents buying their companies.

opportunity 76

opportunity incumbents VC culture 76

Dream It

MAY 13, 2020

However, if you’re already an incumbent at a large health system with a compelling Covid-19 use case, then you’re in a really good spot. Startups with direct Covid-19 solutions are still experiencing sales challenges due to friction around technology integration, physician workflow, and culture adoption. “

health 195

health advice innovation incumbents 195

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

It become such a quick part of popular culture that Jim Carrey rode a Bird in an opening segment of the Jimmy Kimmel show (hilarious if you haven’t seen it). You can’t simply drop a bunch of electric scooters in a market and hope to compete with the data and software advantages of the incumbents.

transportation 250

transportation incumbents disruption financing 250

TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

It’s random enough of an endorsement that it becomes humorous in itself, exactly the kind of vehicle you associate with Ferrell in his less marketing-focused pursuits.

incumbents 95

incumbents strategy capital culture 95

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

“My dad still eats instant ramen each night, and it is such a massive market: 4 billion packets are sold per year, but it is also a product that has been dominated by the same three incumbents for years.”. Data-driven iteration helped China’s Genki Forest become a $6B beverage giant in 5 years. billion of value in the U.S. “We

incumbents 98

incumbents collaboration capital culture 98

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Indeed, both companies have similar financial and cultural synergies, Ramesh said, including a focus on eliminating food waste. When we are profitable, we will be able to take on all of these massive incumbents.”. Discount grocery startup Misfits Market raises $200M. In the U.S. That would be the next immediate step for us,” he said.

incumbents 75

incumbents leadership culture VC 75

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The way Sangani sees it, most corporate leadership wants to build a “data-driven” culture but is stymied by tech hurdles and a lack of knowledge about what data they have, where it lives, whether it’s trustworthy and how to make the best use of it. Alation’s platform organizes data across disparate systems. .”

incumbents 86

incumbents collaboration enablement leadership 86

TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

Some have blamed the lack of insurance coverage on the country’s culture but Super.mx It’s not a cultural problem,” Villarreal said. Moreover, the insurance incumbents have been unable to address a growing and underserved market.”. “People in Latin America buy a lot less insurance than they do in the U.S.,

health 98

health incumbents culture venture capital 98

Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Monzo’s culture of customer obsession allowed it to use the crisis to thoughtfully build a beloved consumer and SMB product that has changed personal finance in the UK. 2 Incumbent banks miss the mark in two crucial areas: The banking experience has not evolved to match modern consumer expectations. This did not happen by magic.

peer-to-peer 40

peer-to-peer incumbents financing finance 40

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

They point out perceived market risks, they might question the management team’s experience, they might worry about regulatory risk or incumbent competitive powers. .” So other partners at the firm might sling mud at your ideas as you go for approval on an investment.

funders 362

funders culture incumbents technology 362

TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

While the CEO sets strategy, messages, and builds culture, the CFO needs to know everything that it is going on in an organization. Moallemi says incumbents have a couple of key challenges that Mosaic hopes to overcome. CFOs are the supposed omniscient owners of a company. Where is revenue coming from, and when will it arrive?

financing 98

financing finance incumbents consulting 98

TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

” And this line was the classic motivation for all incumbents buying fintechs: “Why not just bring it in to our platform and get it to customers as quickly as possible?”. It looks like incumbent banks and institutions are still struggling when it comes to offering tech-enabled financial services.

incumbents 117

incumbents energy board investing 117

Haystack

MAY 4, 2019

Of course, none of this is new nor should be a surprise — the world is undergoing a massive shift from the industrial age to the information age; technology is spreading horizontally across geographies and into new sectors (and creating new markets), but also seeping deep into industries; the cost of capital is showing no signs of increasing, (..)

incumbents 87

incumbents culture transportation investing 87

Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 10, 2023

05:02 – The fundamentals and framework of growth 07:02 – Assessing growth potential and product lead growth 09:33 – Distribution 11:15 – Your moat and growth 14:00 – Integrating AI for product lead growth 16:23 – Trust as a moat 17:23 – B2C growth – discovery and breaking through 18:51 – Can you get ahead of the incumbents?

incumbents 76

incumbents frameworks leadership culture 76

Haystack

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Those opponents have a sense of what comes with the “big tech” bundle — changes to the neighborhood, changes to rent, changes to the culture they have today. We must acknowledge that while the majority of NYC residents (across the boroughs) were very much in favor of having Amazon in their backyard, there were enough who did not.

incumbents 102

incumbents culture communities networking 102

Haystack

JUNE 5, 2018

Stepping back, it’s interesting to see this cultural shift among larger companies who are comfortable with these co-branding scenarios, which actually may provide better PR and future opportunities to add to their portfolios. They’re probably not far off from the truth. 5/ “Decentralized Everything?”

leadership 71

leadership incumbents culture networking 71

Ecosystem Builder Hub

MAY 21, 2021

Cultivating a culture and practice of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) has become a core principle for entrepreneurial ecosystem builders. 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. It’s not an afterthought.

peer-to-peer 105

peer-to-peer entrepreneurial ecosystem entrepreneurship board 105

TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Sentiment analysis systems — both academic and commercial — have been shown to exhibit bias along race, age , cultural, ethnic, and gender lines. Some algorithms associate Black people with more negative emotions like anger, fear, and sadness.

incumbents 94

incumbents development culture support 94

TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

Part 4: The consequences of scaling up sneaker culture. The competition intensified further last year when American incumbents Beyond Meat and Eat Just entered China. Part 2: Authentication and StockX’s global arms race against fraudsters. Part 3: Where StockX fits in the business of sneakers. The StockX EC-1.

board 91

board pitching venture capital mix-use 91

TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

We have seen 20 creator led learning platforms across “preK to Gray” learning in addition to incumbents like Teachable and very few have an ability to build a moat in my view. In FOW, increased recognition that reskilling and upskilling is a business imperative, company culture matters for competitiveness, increased focus on DEI.

education 134

education venture capital ventures opportunity 134

Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

As a result, we’ve seen both the rise of open-source networks leading to startups (a la Gitlab and Hashicorp, among others), as well as Docusign- and Slack-inspired freemium models designed to grow within groups at companies.

incumbents 127

incumbents accelerator venture capital financing 127

TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

Previously relegated to underground communities and rave culture, drugs like ketamine, MDMA (commonly known as ecstasy) and psilocybin are now being studied to develop therapies to treat everything from PTSD to cluster headaches. “Today, there are 400+ ketamine clinics in the U.S.,

health 94

health startup incumbents ventures 94

TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

In my experience, many founders have a hard time delegating, which can quickly create cultural and operational problems. For four years running, the S&P 500 and incumbent financial services companies have been outperformed by companies like Afterpay, Square and Bill.com.

VC 107

VC founder media education 107

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

This hasn’t gone unnoticed by the major food and beverage incumbents such as Nestlé, which launched a plant-based dairy line under the Wunda brand last year, while rival Unilever has been doubling down on its vegan offerings.

incumbents 73

incumbents culture sustainability development 73

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Many companies have wrongly taken to monitoring as solutions, which long term deteriorate culture and hinder them from hiring and keeping the best talent possible.” Incumbents like Amazon have thrown their hats in the ring, too (see: CodeGuru ). Pulse aims to help in this process.”

culture 76

culture leadership incumbents development 76

Haystack

JUNE 29, 2018

One analyst estimated $15b+ of incumbent market value was wiped out. Whether it’s angling for multi-billion dollar franchises in faraway places like India, or competing for a small startup in Boston — the gloves are off and founders in the right position stand to benefit.

incumbents 65

incumbents venture capital health VC 65

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.

culture 343

culture incumbents enablement sustainability 343

Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

More recently, this trend has shifted a bit within the Bay Area, which today’s giants like Uber, Airbnb, and Stripe being built in San Francisco proper while incumbents down south have begun scooping up premium commercial real estate in the city. Over the past two years, however, I’ve felt that something is out of balance.

investing 116

investing investment venture capital peer-to-peer 116

Y Combinator

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Other considerations include market size, incumbent strength, founder fit with an enterprise-like sales cycle, and ability to create significantly better-electrified products faster than the incumbents can modify their existing lines and supply chains.

energy 95

energy startup construction transportation 95

Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 13, 2023

From the age-old realms created in myths to the digital domains we traverse today in video games, the fidelity of these worlds has never been more immersive nor culturally impactful. Ultimately, these engine unbundling approaches are market wedges to find soft spots where a new creation tool can provide 10x improvement over incumbents.

incumbents 145

incumbents creativity development enablement 145

Continuations

MAY 29, 2020

By reducing the network effect lock in of the incumbents. For more thoughts on that I have an entire book which you can find at World After Capital. (*) It turns out that you can achieve all three if you start with quality but only if you build a culture of quality. In other words, require Twitter, Facebook, YouTube etc.

media 40

media incumbents culture networking 40

TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2021

China’s e-commerce and industrial ecosystem is as different from the Western world as its culture. Incumbent giants therefore could lose a sizable chunk of market share if a company could just manage to weave together China’s manufacturing proficiency and agility with the modern tech startup philosophy of “moving fast and breaking stuff.”.

incumbents 129

incumbents networking entrepreneurs opportunity 129

A Smart Bear

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

They say things like “we have a unique feature” and “the incumbents are dumb,” which might be true, but isn’t a strategy. Your values are tested only when the decisions are tough, like losing money, hurting your brand, firing a highly-productive employee who isn’t a culture-fit, or a wonderful culture-fit who isn’t able to be productive.

culture 161

culture strategy SaaS founder 161

Haystack

JUNE 13, 2019

Products like Looker already have this mindset baked in, and on the heels of Google’s Anthos announcement, we are moving toward a world where even the incumbent cloud giants will allow their users to (somewhat) seamlessly move between different cloud environments. I expect to see more blockbuster M&A in this broad category.

incumbents 91

incumbents ventures capital development 91

WSJ - The Accelerators

JULY 2, 2015

It is harder to fund an over-valued venture-backed startup in a Series B round than an under-valued one, especially because founders and incumbent investors shy away from down-rounds, particularly in a robust market where they’re not seeing others take lower valued rounds.

ventures 28

ventures incumbents venture capital financing 28