This is going to be BIG.
FEBRUARY 21, 2021
The startup ecosystem is a terrific manufacturer of bad fundraising advice. They’ll tell you all about their strategy, the order of operations of who and how they pitched, the magic slides, the timing of the raise itself, etc. Is that a good strategy? Was she just an anomaly or is there something else going on here?
TechCrunch
JANUARY 19, 2022
Today a startup that is building tools to help incumbent address this challenge is announcing a round of funding on the back of a lot of demand for its services. “T hey are seeing the impact of the alternatives,” he said, with the migration away from the incumbents happening gradually. That’s a common thing.”
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TechCrunch
JANUARY 11, 2022
We asked them to share the advice they’re giving their portfolio companies, along with their thoughts on how future regulation might impact the industry. Incumbents tend to be more wary of adapting new business models and gaming is no different. What advice have you been giving your portfolio companies to grow?
TechCrunch
JANUARY 17, 2023
Startups often fall into the trap of writing off incumbents as too big to act, too clueless to know what customers want and too incompetent to deliver good products. A nontrivial percentage of the companies that come to me for advice about how to make their pitch decks better have a problem far bigger than a subpar deck.
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 25, 2016
But today I want to give you advice on how to decrease your odds of failure in a startup. Most of this advice boils down to an argument in favor of basic planning before starting a company or raising money. You can enter either but your strategy must be very different and I can tell you that fragmented markets are easier to disrupt.
Hunter Walk
MAY 17, 2024
But when your team is the larger organization, you can’t use this strategy. If I could give 2014 Kieran one piece of advice from 2024 Kieran, it would be to center this much more explicitly in how I approached my job as CEO. My teams always had a recognizable identity and subculture. This work is my zone of excellence.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 23, 2021
Column Tax’s software differs from that of incumbents like TurboTax and H&R Block in that it is mobile-only and will be embedded into a customer’s existing bank account, allowing for year-round integration that the company says will cut down users’ time spent on tax prep.
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