TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Stuart Chapman: I co-founded Esprit with Simon Cook back in 2006, and after a 10-year journey of raising conventional funds, we were coming to the point of raising our fourth fund. You have large incumbents with very outdated systems, but a very loyal and a very high degree of trust customer base. Yeah, that’s our strategy.

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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. Booking.com was not always the online leader in Europe – in fact they were a disrupter stealing the flag from other large incumbents.

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strategy networking disruption sustainability 101

Y Combinator

MAY 8, 2019

Brian Halligan [17:10] – Yep, if I thought there was, the arbitrage opportunity when we started HubSpot in 2006 was generating leads online. What’s fascinating to me about my mornings is those six startups, and they are startups, are all very much part of my life and have completely disrupted the incumbents in those space.

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Y Combinator

MAY 1, 2019

Craig Cannon [00:37:56] – Weird strategy. The point of all of that, and of learning all of that was to develop a, I did have a content strategy of how am I… I realized that you’re not really, what’s the phrase? Jarvis Johnson [00:54:57] – Yeah, that was like, 2006, 2007.

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