Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 23, 2023

As an early-stage founder, your ability to deliver value quickly is your most critical — and sometimes the only — competitive advantage over the incumbent competition. To address my own need to validate these opportunities, I built an internal framework to: Identify notable problems and challenges within an industry.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. To create a framework for founders who are charting a path from $1 million to $25 million in annual revenue, Arthur Nobel, a principal at Knight Capital, conducted 47 interviews with founders and investors who’ve taken startups from Series A to C. Image Credits: Warby Parker.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

Does the ability to make users collective owners in the platform’s success give you an advantage over web2 incumbents? Will access to a shared, open, data layer make your offering more attractive than if you hoard the data in a proprietary database? Can you bootstrap one side (or both sides) of a marketplace through in-protocol incentives?

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Unvalidated Learnings

JUNE 8, 2017

As such, the history of the MP3 gives an excellent framework to anticipate how disruptive 10x innovations impact a market, and who the winners and losers of such breakthroughs will be. incumbents simply did not have the right teams to adapt to the changing environment. The MP3 is a perfect case study of Innovator’s Dilemma.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 13, 2024

AI, I think, so far is living up to that framework. You know, this AI is a use case for developing and deploying that kind of power. You know, most of our economy is dominated by, you know, incumbent institutions that, you know, have no intention, I don’t think, of changing or evolving unless they’re forced to.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

The antitrust bills, if passed, could significantly restrict the ability of Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and other tech incumbents to acquire and punish rivals to boost their own products and services. Carbon cap and trade for developing world could spur massive investments — if it works. billion valuation. Seen on TechCrunch+.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Eventually, however, we gained our footing and developed a mental model for the industry and a framework for where opportunities do exist. So rather than working on software, they were developing web pages and probably holding events, teaching you how you can collect this free money. healthcare system is confusing and complex.

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