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. Step 3: Develop Your Hypothesis For the problem you’ve honed in on, write down a series of challenges or questions that could be detrimental to achieving your goals.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2023

Snafus can happen even when incumbents and fintechs partner. Peter Hazlehurst, co-founder and CEO of BaaS startup Synctera , shares his thoughts in this TC+ article here. Chief corporate development and strategy officer Greg Orenstein will move into its CFO seat.” Reports CFO Dive : “Wilmington N.C.-based

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

Over the last few days, we’ve published several articles recapping panels from last week’s TechCrunch Early Stage virtual conference. As ever, full articles are available for Extra Crunch members. Full Extra Crunch articles are only available to members. Walter Thompson. Senior Editor, TechCrunch. yourprotagonist.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

This is a huge business, typified by incumbent behemoths like Lloyd’s of London, who in theory mitigate the risk insurance companies face when they get the formula wrong. “The industry hasn’t updated,” he said. “It’s the classic innovator’s dilemma.” That can be a truly life changing thing.”

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

This article originally appeared on Silicon Alley Insider. In this area I’ve developed another philosophy that guides my investment decisions and forms a lot of the premise that I debate in our internal partners’ meetings when I’m advocating that we invest in a company. .&# They might be large markets, sure.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

It plans to use the money to continue investing in its technology stack, to step up with more business development, and to hire more talent for its team, to meet what it believes are changing tides in the world of data warehousing. billion valuation. “We rarely see people not liking Snowflake.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

But Novo sees incumbents as the real “challenger” here. It has a large development team, mostly based out of India, Rangel told me.). “We are competing against big banks. “We believe our product is better value for businesses, but we’re happy to see others also pushing the charge forward.”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 24, 2022

Stay tuned as my colleagues and I parse the developments. Following a Wall Street Journal article , the company recalled its French Lentil and Leek Crumbles product, which reportedly caused some people to have to undergo surgery to remove their gallbladders and might’ve contributed to liver damage and fevers.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2022

Hi all, it was a roller coaster of a week in the world of fintech as I published two separate articles on startup layoffs and a nine-figure funding round in the span of a few hours. In other words, incumbents in some cases need fintechs even as they compete with them. Image Credits: Long Game CEO and co-founder Lindsay Holden.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 2, 2012

In this month’s HBR, Clay Christensen and Maxwell Wessell published an article targeted to the CEOs of large companies on how to prevent disruption to their businesses. The new technologies barrier: Sometimes, startups have to develop new technologies to enter a market.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

But the ICC, the nonprofit organization that develops the model code used or adopted for building regulations by all 50 states, claims UpCodes impacts its ability to make revenue and continue authoring new code. And in all those cases, big old incumbents like ICC will try to find ways to slow down their new competitors.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2022

Startups like these are keeping the incumbents (relatively speaking) on their toes. The credit card giant called the move “one of the first significant technology developments to come out of its acquisition of Finicity.”. Image Credits: Mila Ferrell / Cervin.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2023

I am grateful and fortunate that I could solicit input on this article from several people, including Theresia Gouw and Mark Kraynak; a few of my partners at Acrew; Ed Zimmerman and Meredith Beuchaw from the law firm Lowenstein; Shan Aggarwal, VP of corporate development, Coinbase; and Art Levy, chief strategy officer at Brex.

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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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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Two factors often come down to how Q&A will be shared and/or if we are the incumbent. discovery, definition, design, development & deployment). published an article last month in Forbes about the power of a good leader. With leading a pitch end to end, the most important phase is often the Q&A.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The poster child of this movement is ChatGPT , a chatbot-style technology trained on large language models (LLMs) capable of producing scarily good (but far from flawless ) work such as essays, articles, poems, lyrics, and even computer programs.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2011

The short article in Fast Company is here if you’d like to read it. The story was controversial enough that it created follow-on articles. That, or incumbents. Develop Trusted Advisors. I agreed to do the interview because the story was about what other companies can learn rather than about airbnb in particular.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

Founded out of Tel Aviv, Daily.dev wants to help like-minded software developers connect, share knowledge and discuss all that’s happening across their ecosystems. There’s no escaping the fact that there are plenty of developer-focused communities out their on the web, from Discord and Hacker News, to GitHub and Stack Overflow.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2022

It’s another example of an incumbent recognizing that it makes more sense to buy a company that has developed technology that it wants rather than building it out itself – a process that would take far longer and require more resources than a simple acquisition would. “We

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

A number of vendors — both startups and well-established players — are actively developing and selling access to AI inferencing chips. And on the incumbent side, Google’s competing for dominance with its tensor processing units (TPUs) while Amazon’s betting on Inferentia.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2022

At its I/O developer conference, Google last week launched Google Wallet , a new Android and Wear OS app that will allow users to store things like credit cards, loyalty cards, digital IDs, transit passes, concert tickets, vaccination cards and more. In the latest development on this theme, a U.K. For too long, many people in the U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. I have always loved watching videos there but always believed that any company controlled by a consortia of interests would be doomed in the long run – especially by established, large incumbents with an interest in protecting the past more than innovating the future.

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Unvalidated Learnings

JUNE 8, 2017

But following the rapid development of its ecosystem (desktop and then mobile MP3 players, Torrent and then download and streaming services), MP3s rapidly became a better option than CDs for the majority of the population, rendering the previous paradigm obsolete. most of the value created would accrue to new entrants.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 17, 2013

Booking.com was not always the online leader in Europe – in fact they were a disrupter stealing the flag from other large incumbents. Because most of the developers building on these platforms make software, the developers do not experience immediate pain when they share 30% of top-line revenue.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

In developed markets such as the U.S. However, people in developing markets such as North Africa and the Middle East are underserved , with less than 3% actively investing in financial assets across the region. The Series A investment will go toward product development and expanding its presence across MENA.

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Y Combinator

MAY 8, 2019

Brian Halligan [08:26] – that didn’t have a bunch of developers running around. And I helped him set up his blog, and I remember he wrote his first blog article. He said, “What do you think of my article?” ” And I’m reading through the article and the thing out loud.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 13, 2024

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. Economic growth is a great starting point.

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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. This is, I think, an interesting divergent branching, because Goldhill who wrote that great Atlantic article and then his book, which I do recommend people read, sort of takes it in that other direction.

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