Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 21, 2017

In 2012 ChiefMartec landscape counted 350 vendors selling to sales and marketing. This sea of SaaS startups have reshaped the market. Incumbent client/server technologies have lost their market dominance to new incumbents. Incumbent client/server technologies have lost their market dominance to new incumbents.

SaaS 75

SaaS incumbents financing finance 75

Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 21, 2021

You are ready to launch and thinking about the right go-to-market strategies that will lead to quick and scalable growth ? —?a a critical juncture of your venture’s life cycle, as a majority of startups have only one chance to make a strong first impression. Winning big often means starting small.

startup 89

startup strategy SaaS incumbents 89

TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

We’re also building a growing stable of podcasts focused on the most critical topics relating to the startup and venture capital worlds. Finally, there’s Equity , TechCrunch’s long-running, Webby-award-winning podcast focused on venture capital and the latest startup news, hosted by Natasha , Mary Ann and Alex.

venture capital 73

venture capital SaaS incumbents ventures 73

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.

incumbents 94

incumbents peer-to-peer health opportunity 94

Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

I wish I had been in Stanford’s CS183 class in 2012, the year Peter Thiel taught it. In a few days, Thiel and Masters will release a book version of these notes called Zero to One: Notes on Startups or How to Build the Future. So, to maximize profits and minimize costs, a startup should prohibit competitors from developing.

disruption 40

disruption startup incumbents culture 40