Haystack

JUNE 5, 2018

As expected, many developers didn’t love the news that some of their work would be concentrated in the hands of a tech incumbent. 6/ “Gitting Liquid” Back in 2012, right around when I first moved here and was figuring out what VC was, I knew many of the larger firms were figuring out a way to invest in GitHub.

leadership 71

leadership incumbents culture networking 71

TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

The largest incumbent in this space is Elastic, the makers of ElasticSearch, a public company founded in 2012. So then I thought, let me give it a shot and see if I can build something, He spent several months developing what would become ZincSearch.

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incumbents ventures investment investing 78

TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

By way of background, Socialcam was a mobile photo-sharing app that Autodesk acquired in 2012, while Triplebyte is a recruiting and technical screening platform aimed at enterprise tech companies. But Ochoa argues that Lasso solves many of the setup problems associated with incumbent RPA solutions while remaining license-free.

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startup incumbents support consulting 102

TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

payments landscape is currently dominated by legacy and new-age incumbents, and we know competition would ultimately deliver better outcomes for consumers. Since 2012, we’ve grown to over 1,900 employees in 21 global offices. While we’ve grown a lot in APAC and EMEA, the U.S. How many employees do you have?

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innovation incumbents frameworks support 86

Y Combinator

AUGUST 30, 2021

Gusto launched in 2012 to tackle this opportunity, and more. In the long run, software platforms have the potential to be much larger than traditional incumbents. Upon digging deeper, the founders realized that incumbent providers were overly complex, and more manual than necessary. SMBs had historically been hard to reach.

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incumbents peer-to-peer health opportunity 92

Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 13, 2015

Each year, starting in mid-2012 through mid-2015, these sectors have grown their investment dollars by more than 145%, according to Mattermark data. Where are founders finding unique opportunities to innovate? The rest of the list controverts the notion that startups and investors pursue only incremental innovations.

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investment investing hospitality transportation 40

Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 21, 2021

Another example is Stone, a Brazilian fin-tech unicorn started in 2012, which disrupted the incumbents’ sales strategy by creating a hub-and-spoke model that deployed a passionate salesforce of “Stone Warriors” throughout the country.

startup 89

startup strategy SaaS incumbents 89

TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

Sean Lane co-founded Olive in 2012, and signed on Chris Olsen from Drive Capital as the company’s first investors. Things aren’t looking good for the model that once challenged the incumbency of SaaS. Now, nearly 10 years later, Olive has raised $856.3 Which would be good for all of us.

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venture capital SaaS incumbents ventures 73

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

He teamed up with Codacy’s other co-founder, João Caxaria, to launch the startup in 2012. Incumbents like Amazon have thrown their hats in the ring, too (see: CodeGuru ). Image Credits: Codacy.

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

I wish I had been in Stanford’s CS183 class in 2012, the year Peter Thiel taught it. Most disruptive companies are better, faster, and cheaper versions of incumbents’ products. A student of the class, Blake Masters, copied all the class notes and I read every post, like thousands of other visitors to the site.

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disruption startup incumbents culture 40

Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 22, 2014

Taleb summarized his view on the theory in an op-ed titled “ The Surprising Truth: Technology is Aging in Reverse ,” published in Wired in 2012. Disruption will happen in certain sectors and long-incumbent technologies will continue to prevail in others. In some sense, these are the main forces in tension in most sectors.

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