Andreessen Horowitz

JUNE 3, 2024

Marketing is particularly well suited for adopting generative AI because it is an iterative, creative, and dynamic practice that relies on the types of media — texts, images, video — that have driven LLM development. This is one of the reasons why many of the first B2B GenAI use cases were for marketing!) via Captions ).

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TechCrunch

JUNE 5, 2022

But it is illustrative of the measures that financial services companies — incumbents and fintechs alike — are taking to make their installment loans available to more consumers. It will also be working to develop a BNPL product for businesses and instant fund disbursement products. Indian fintech Slice tops $1.5

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

“Baselit is [an] AI copilot for analytics,” co-founder Shubham Rana writes in the blog post announcing Baselit. But Ochoa argues that Lasso solves many of the setup problems associated with incumbent RPA solutions while remaining license-free. ” without having to rely on their data team. In 2020, backers poured $296.4

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Haystack

JUNE 5, 2018

Not yet profitable but invaluable to developers worldwide, the decade-old company bootstrapped, differentiated from formidable competitors GitLab and Atlassian’s BitBucket, weathered leadership upheavals, and eventually ingested lots of venture capital which helped them weather the challenges they faced. 5/ “Decentralized Everything?”

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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. 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

MAY 8, 2022

Well, this past week, the company came out with an indirect response to the latter in the form of a blog post written by its CEO Maju Kuruvilla. In other words, incumbents in some cases need fintechs even as they compete with them. You can read all about it here. I wrote a story about how Truist , the sixth-largest bank in the U.S.

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 14, 2019

Today’s digital e-commerce successes aren’t merely developing strategies to expand beyond borders as quickly as possible – they are a new generation of firms that are “born online” and later build out physical spaces as they grow.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

In previous parts of this EC-1, I looked at the origins of CockroachDB , presented an in-depth technical description of its product as well as an analysis of the company’s developer relations and cloud service , CockroachCloud. Web developers like document-centric databases because they address a number of common use cases in their work.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Note : Last Thursday, Cigna acquired Brighter to accelerate the development of Cigna’s mobile and desktop platforms and create new end-to-end experiences that connect health consumers and providers with the guidance, support, and incentives they need to increase quality of care and maximize cost-savings.

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Haystack

JUNE 13, 2019

Normally, I like to pounce on these big acquisitions quickly with some quick analysis, but big M&A in tech is happening too fast, and it’s graduation season for the toddlers, and family is in town, so for this installment of the blog, we will talk about both Looker and Tableau together, as they’re in the same space.

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A Smart Bear

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

They say things like “we have a unique feature” and “the incumbents are dumb,” which might be true, but isn’t a strategy. There are not enough blogs or books about this phase; often leaders go underground. Otherwise, this is a failure of organizational development. Founders almost never have a real strategy.

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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. Use our template, put your blog out and put your site, you’re going to be happy. They could do it and grow their business. We lost that battle.

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