TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

On Friday, January 13, investment giant BlackRock announced it was acquiring a minority stake in SMB 401(k) provider startup Human Interest. A lot has changed in the markets since then, so this feels like a good outcome for the startup, which was founded by Paul Sawaya and Roger Lee in 2015. Consolidation everywhere.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Also participating was New York-based FirstMark Capital and Frst , as well as angel investors including Paul Melchiorre, former CEO of business planning giant Anaplan, and David Clarke, the ex-CTO of Workday, another business planning incumbent.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2021

The internal rate of return (IRR) for companies in other startup hub cities has been even better. The data is based on a sample of 2,500 companies that have used AngelList to syndicate deals from 2013 through 2020. You can increasingly do a startup from anywhere and make it a success. Eric Eldon. Managing Editor, Extra Crunch.

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Haystack

JUNE 29, 2018

This success reminds me of a famous Paul Graham post, Schlep Blindness , where Graham argues while incredible startup ideas lie around us, this specific work can feel to many to be both tedious and boring. One analyst estimated $15b+ of incumbent market value was wiped out.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 20, 2016

In 2011-2013, about 1450 software companies were founded each year on average. Subverting those incumbents is going to require a meaningfully better product or substantially more effective customer acquisition channel. The rate of new software company formation seems to have declined materially in the past few years.

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TechCrunch

MAY 22, 2022

Besides the fact that over 20% of all venture dollars last year went into fintech startups , I am particularly excited about the myriad ways that this technology is helping boost inclusion all over the world. Reporting on startups and the venture world at a time like this is a series of contradictions. Sign up here. Here we are today.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 14, 2021

For most startups, the hardest early challenge is identifying a market and a product to serve it. Instead, the challenge was how to rebuild the concept of a bank in a country where banking is widely hated, all while the incumbents heavily entrenched with the state worked to block every move.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2021

The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Both have long-term ambitions, or at least teasers, to take on the incumbent cloud players. After all, startups are designed to make big plans. And then, to cap it off, we take on AWS. What’s actually funny is that I am not kidding.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 9, 2013

Not constrained to large competitors, startups like FitBit and Jawbone launched competing (and nearly identical) products within weeks of each other: the FitBit Flex and the Jawbone Up Even newer segments like gesture control of TVs or GoPro self-recording cameras are addressed by six competitors, many of them white-label.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2023

A growing number of startups are capitalizing on the U.K.’s Ash Kalraiya back in 2013, MediShout unifies all helpdesks and medical suppliers within a single app. The startup went on to raise £167,000 ($211,000) in angel funding, before closing a £1 million ($1.25 But in the midst of chaos, opportunity often lingers.

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WSJ - The Accelerators

JULY 2, 2015

There has been a lot of discussion recently of where the choke points are in the cone, and I believe we’re headed into a period in which the Series B venture round will be more of a choke point than it has been in the past, especially for American startups. The graphic follows those startups until April 2014. Certainly not.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In 2015, 46 percent of workers were enrolled in a plan with an annual deductible of $1,000 or more, up from 38 percent in 2013 and 22 percent in 2009. Here are a list of the new forces pushing the U.S. We believe all these things are currently in place with regards to “customer first” healthcare.

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