Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

The thesis of the book is that incumbents in markets – especially large and well entrenched markets – seldom survive fundamental technology changes in their industries. It should affect how you think if you are an incumbent but also if you’re a startup. Let’s start with the incumbents position in a market.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

And last but definitely not least, the latest extension — which closed in December but is only now being publicly announced — effectively doubles Human Interest’s valuation from its financing a few months prior. . It was later revealed that American Express Ventures had joined the financing as an investor.

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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. Led by Lindsay Holden, the startup had raised more than $20 million in funding and had built a gamified finance mobile app that aims to help people “save, learn and engage” with their finances.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Incumbent human processes were cumbersome, laborious, costly, slow and demoralizing. The post How a Little Bit of Fear Breeds Innovation appeared first on THE BLOG. We used this type of expert knowledge to power our semantic engines. LESSON: Watch an expert solve a problem before you build a machine to attempt it.

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Y Combinator

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

But we thought that the potential was interesting enough to put out a “Request for Startups” on our blog, a call for people working in this area to apply to YC. With this expansive vision and their solid commercial traction, Ginkgo successfully raised their first financing round at the end of the batch.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2013 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2014; Slack in 2015; took a break in 2016, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; and last year, 2017, was Coinbase.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

More recently, this trend has shifted a bit within the Bay Area, which today’s giants like Uber, Airbnb, and Stripe being built in San Francisco proper while incumbents down south have begun scooping up premium commercial real estate in the city. I have been reading Fred’s blog AVC for about a decade now. A blog entry for another day.

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