Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

The news blogs will cover the what, how and how much but I want to focus on the “why” and try to be instructive of what I think makes for a great A-round startup. Incumbents launch products, VCs throw cash at other competitors, team members quit, the economy dips — whatever.

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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.

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OurCrowd

JULY 22, 2020

Challenger Banks Turn Up the Heat on Incumbents appeared first on OurCrowd Blog. “A national bank charter could allow SoFi to have more competitive pricing and offer more products, specifically in regard to deposits,” according to Business Insider, which first reported the application. Read more here.

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 21, 2021

In the last few years, incumbents have started to adopt technology to fix inefficiencies, but they’ve focused on tools to streamline individual tasks (e.g., Fragmented supply and demand is a problem for incumbents, but a great opportunity for a digital marketplace. convoy.com/blog/empty-miles-in-trucking.

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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

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The big incumbents haven’t figured out how to make plans affordable and accessible for smaller companies,” Schneble said. “We In a blog post, Ankit Sud and Christina Fa wrote: “Traditional 401(k) providers like Vanguard and Fidelity designed and priced their plans for large businesses.

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Continuations

OCTOBER 18, 2019

I have spoken and written extensively about this going back to a post on labor rights (2014) and my TEDxNY talk (2015), several subsequent blog posts , and my book World After Capital. This has massively reduced the power of incumbent banks, allowing for rapid innovation in the banking and payments sector.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

Around 2003, as blogs began to take hold in the internet psyche , it became clear that these writing tools could be more than an outlet for an individual’s ruminations — they also had vast potential for business and marketing. It turns out that writing a corporate blog was just the first step in a longer, broader media journey.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

.&# It was my investment philosophy that observing teams’ performance over time was far more insightful than reacting to how good of a product demo they do, how good they present Powerpoint slides or how great tech blogs say they are. They incumbents might provide terrible products or services that you think you can better.

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Haystack

JUNE 5, 2018

As expected, many developers didn’t love the news that some of their work would be concentrated in the hands of a tech incumbent. However, Fred Wilson blogs and Jackson Palmer smartly tweets that Git is already a decentralized system with GitHub built on top of it.

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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

DECEMBER 12, 2022

As banking evolves digitally, the line is blurring between challenger banks and incumbents. The post [Greenlight in Tearsheet] Introducing the 2022 winners of Tearsheet’s Challenger Banking Awards appeared first on OurCrowd Blog. Read more here.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

We’ll first look at MongoDB as an example of how a company can break through the barriers for database startups competing with incumbents. For example, a document-centric database works well for storing comments to a blog post or a customer’s entire order history and profile. It’s not impossible, though. Image Credits : Nasdaq, Inc.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

3/ The Price Of Incumbency – It seems like at the end of every year I’ve been an investor, various blog posts will prognosticate on whether the following year will truly be the year when incumbents start getting nervous and spend their cash reserves and high-priced stock on a big splashy acquisition.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

That’s a notion that the search market has caught up with, but Socher sees room for a fresh approach, one that the incumbents can’t offer. Image Credits: You.com You.com launched at the end of 2020 with the belief that there was room for another search engine, based more on AI.

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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. At the time, the first SynBioBeta conference had yet to be held and the first synthetic biology startups had just been started. Here’s what we wrote: “Biotech.

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 14, 2019

While incumbent competitor Mattress Firm began a process of consolidation and subsequently filed for bankruptcy in 2018, Casper announced it would be opening 200 retail locations across the US.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 14, 2013

In the past, my first instinct would have very well been to pour all of my frustration into a biting blog post that attacks the very nature of list creation, and the b t nature of velvet ropes. Could I have been more helpful to others so that they, in turn, would suggest that I be included? Where did I make that wrong turn?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The reason that you build them is that they can grow the brand much faster as more people experience the product and allow you to (hopefully) displace incumbents who are charging for the same thing. Also, freemium products typically convert much worse than trial or direct purchase-based products, costing you money upfront.

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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. I don’t like freemium ; I want to learn from people who care enough to pay, not from the 20x more who don’t.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

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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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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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

We look at huge markets where there are large incumbents that might not be incented to innovate or react to what they perceive as an insurgent. Tige and I discuss an excellent blog post written by the CEO of Hulu (Jason Kilar) on the future of advertising. I run Revolution’s VC investments.

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Gust

JULY 27, 2014

If you have more money than the incumbents, try it, but don’t look for investors. Somewhere below this list is another tier of questionable potential startups, including more calendar sites, blog aggregators, Craigslists, photo sharing sites, music sharing sites, or more instant messaging sites.

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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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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

You need to enter the market when (1) consumers are showing a unquestionable favoritism for a new approach, (2) they are voting with their pocketbooks in favor of this new approach, and (3) the incumbents in the market recognize the trend is unstoppable and begin to react (rather than deny or ignore) that trend (which creates the “tipping” force).

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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. In other words, it wants to help fintechs be in a stronger position to compete with incumbents, something it believes will benefit consumers.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 17, 2021

“Just as old incumbent institutions with little to no organizational renewal impacted our ability to respond to COVID, the defense industry has undergone significant consolidation over the last 30 years,” Gil wrote in a blog post on the investment.

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Y Combinator

MAY 8, 2019

And I helped him set up his blog, and I remember he wrote his first blog article. ” That was the early days of HubSpot, not only helping people set their blog up, but actually posting it and editing it. Use our template, put your blog out and put your site, you’re going to be happy. We lost that battle.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

And I published this on my own startups blog. Because people don't love the incumbent right now. So it's a recursive function to say, oh, well, if the New York Times links to you, that's much more valuable than if Dharmesh's blog links to you because New York Times has more page rank. that people love. Dharmesh: Yeah, go ahead.

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