Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 30, 2018

In 2015, one of the largest healthcare intermediaries in the country presented us these challenges. Incumbent human processes were cumbersome, laborious, costly, slow and demoralizing. The post How a Little Bit of Fear Breeds Innovation appeared first on THE BLOG. Other people had struggled on this journey.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2013 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2014; Slack in 2015; took a break in 2016, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; and last year, 2017, was Coinbase.

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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. I have been reading Fred’s blog AVC for about a decade now. A blog entry for another day.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

million since its 2015 inception. The big incumbents haven’t figured out how to make plans affordable and accessible for smaller companies,” Schneble said. “We In a blog post, Ankit Sud and Christina Fa wrote: “Traditional 401(k) providers like Vanguard and Fidelity designed and priced their plans for large businesses.

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Continuations

OCTOBER 18, 2019

I have spoken and written extensively about this going back to a post on labor rights (2014) and my TEDxNY talk (2015), several subsequent blog posts , and my book World After Capital. This has massively reduced the power of incumbent banks, allowing for rapid innovation in the banking and payments sector.

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 14, 2019

Macy’s, its better-faring competitor, is moving away from physical storefronts, cutting its square footage by 13% between 2015 and 2018. While incumbent competitor Mattress Firm began a process of consolidation and subsequently filed for bankruptcy in 2018, Casper announced it would be opening 200 retail locations across the US.

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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. In the second part of that same journey, I stumbled upon what I believe to be a large and investible trend — and that is the key subject of this blog post.

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