TechCrunch

JUNE 14, 2021

Brazil’s banking system is a massive market, and one ill-served by incumbents. The Nubank EC-1 comprises four main articles numbering 9,200 words and a reading time of 37 minutes. According to an HBS case study , “in December 2018 the interest rate in Brazil for corporate loans was 52.3%, for consumer loans it was 120.0%

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

Associating with an app that visible, particularly one that’s in the red-hot generative AI space, is bound to get attention — a fact to which this article is a testament. But Ochoa argues that Lasso solves many of the setup problems associated with incumbent RPA solutions while remaining license-free.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

Most incumbent banks, and now a fair number of neobanks, target small and medium businesses as customers. We came in with some experience doing this for sectors, and our thesis is that the next iteration in fintechs challenging incumbents will be more verticalization.” (It didn’t give actual customer numbers.) ” .

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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. If you found this article to be helpful, connect with me through my personal blog or Linkedin to receive helpful tips pertaining to the early-stage founder journey.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. Today’s investment showcases, if anything, how important Axie’s precedent is to the development of the broader ecosystem – and how willing VCs and crypto incumbents are to bend over backward to make sure it succeeds.”.

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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. The relationship between incumbents and upstarts has long been a complicated one. 18), but those problems were resolved by the afternoon, the bank said.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. More than an overview, the article offers approaches for navigating the challenges of T2D3 (triple, triple, double, double, double) growth, specific hiring recommendations and other strategic insights. 3 questions startups must answer before taking on their largest competitors.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

But first up is Natasha’s dive into Mos , which founder Amira Yahyaoui says is gunnin’ to become “the incumbent bank in the U.S.” If you’re curious about how these surveys are shaping our coverage, check out this article on TechCrunch from Jonathan Martinez: “Tackling touchpoints on your customer’s path to purchase.”.

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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. 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. They incumbents might provide terrible products or services that you think you can better. I can’t tell you how incumbents will act and who else will choose to compete fiercely with us.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

The space is one of those massive unsexy categories with huge incumbents that most people have never heard of but customers — who are forced to use them — universally despise. It’s the perfect recipe for a startup to come in and disrupt it with a much better experience,” Mohnot told TechCrunch via e-mail.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

But Novo sees incumbents as the real “challenger” here. (We’ve covered many of them; they include Brex , Rho , Juni , NorthOne , Lili , Mercury , Hatch , Anna , Tide , Viva Wallet , Open and many more; and you could argue Amazon, offering other money management and spending tools, is also in the space.)

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TechCrunch

JUNE 24, 2022

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

JANUARY 18, 2021

In a WWD article , Odile Roujol, the former CEO of Lancôme who launched venture fund FAB Ventures , said, “Generally speaking, the era of $1 billion valuations for beauty companies is over. This change in sentiment from acquirers is further fueled by recent research on the challenges of turning hypergrowth companies profitable.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Snowflake and other incumbents figure significantly, but Firebolt has been entering the picture when those new use cases, and new cracks, come up. “Now, they are looking for new solutions to drive new use cases,” said Eldad Farkash, Firebolt’s CEO. “We rarely see people not liking Snowflake.

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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. This is particularly true when incumbents are already competing with each other with commodity goods and use price as a differentiator.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

Full Extra Crunch articles are only available to members. For four years running, the S&P 500 and incumbent financial services companies have been outperformed by companies like Afterpay, Square and Bill.com. Andreata Muforo , partner, TLCom Capital (a generalist fund backing uLesson).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2022

Startups like these are keeping the incumbents (relatively speaking) on their toes. This article by our own Alex Wilhelm ties into the “is fintech an outlier” narrative from above: Forge’s public debut will pose fresh test to SPAC-led exits.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

As Architect’s Newspaper wrote in an article published last month, “the Georgia precedent helps clarify the border between private property and the public domain, with implications for architects using or considering such products as well as advocates of nonmonetized availability of code information.”.

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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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Haystack

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

There are plenty of well-deserved articles by Axios and Forbes and tweets of praise for Qualtrics (must read Utah-based VC Bryce Roberts’ storm here ), which you can and should read. Qualtrics recently filed to go public. Last night, SAP bought the company before it could IPO.

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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. 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. There are times to ask questions and times not to. a well known search consultant?—?published

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 14, 2013

Well, it would have made the person trying their best to do that event or write that article feel pretty bad about it--and probably glad they didn't invite me. It would have garnered a lot of crowd support, and that would have made me feel "right". But what would it have accomplished? Who needs a jerk like that anyway?

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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. I was recently approached by Fast Company to comment on “crisis management&# at startups in the wake of the Airbnb “ranksackgate&# story.

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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

MAY 17, 2017

I’ve been involved with several startups where a giant incumbent attacks you and tries to sue you out of existence. When you first receive the threat it feels like the local pizza shop when they first get a call from the local mafia boss and you can feel the shake-down coming. The first instinct is fear, then dread, then panic.

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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

JUNE 3, 2022

Articles from the episode: A third straight week of tech layoffs in the books. Things aren’t looking good for the model that once challenged the incumbency of SaaS. Plus a rundown of the week’s top news on TechCrunch. Latch, a proptech meets SaaS play, conducts two consecutive weeks of layoffs.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

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

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

Daily.dev: Choose topics Image Credits : TechCrunch / screenshot Users can then see a personalized feed based on their stated preferences, which might include how-to guides, news articles, questions, and general discussions, or they can filter by the most popular posts. So what, exactly, is Daily.dev hoping to bring to the mix?

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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

Not only did the incumbents fail to grasp the potential value, but it would have made no sense for them to go after such a small unprofitable niche, which would have been irrelevant to their top line, and eating away at their bottom line (CDs were 90%+ gross margin products back then). most of the value created would accrue to new entrants.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2022

It just came out of stealth with $8 million in seed money from Coatue — you can read more about it in Anita Ramaswamy’s article here.

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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. Booking.com is the unquestioned leader in online travel in Europe, and represents a substantial portion of TPG’s astounding $35B market capitalization.

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