Gust

JULY 27, 2014

If you have more money than the incumbents, try it, but don’t look for investors. Micro payments, micro loans, micro investments. The latest is “crowd funding” your startup with thousands of tiny investments. Invested Interests business entrepreneur ideas startup' Portals and single sign-on sites. What’s your idea?

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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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 12, 2019

In today’s Octane blog, we bring EO members and non-members alike behind the scenes of 2019 EO Global Leadership Conference Macau (GLC), profiling Leonard Brody, one of the event’s carefully selected speakers who is known as “a leader of the new world order.” The post Leonard Brody: The Great Rewrite appeared first on THE BLOG.

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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

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. Many tried and couldn’t get in.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2022

It also resurfaced talk of when Stripe reportedly pressured investor Sequoia to back off from an investment that smelled like competition. 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. You can read all about it here.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

CVS Care Clinic Price Schedule: Benchmark Healthcare Investments. Our venture capital firm, Benchmark, has made four investments consistent with the “customer-first” theme. Background: I spent the better part of two-years surveying the Healthcare market in search of an investable opportunity or possibly a key investable theme.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

We're going to talk about why you invest in what you invest. And we're going to talk about, do you ever invest in non startup stuff? I don't know if you recall this Sam, that there was something that was said about VCs or investment or something. You can invest in things. We're also going to talk about your ideas.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

A few months ago I wrote a post called “ Invest in Lines, Not Dots.&# 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.

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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. We invested anyway. Convoy: The Future of Truck Freight.

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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 Last July San Mateo-based Guideline — which is also focused on SMBs — announced an $85 million Series D round co-led by Al Gore’s Generation Investment Management and Greyhound Capital.

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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. You’re building a business to make money, so it’s paramount that validation is tied to the commitment of $ or time invested — not on a facade of hypotheticals.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 17, 2021

The AI-powered defense company founded by tech iconoclast Palmer Luckey has landed a $450 million round of investment that values the startup at $4.6 In April, reports suggested that the company was on the hunt for fresh investment and headed for a valuation between four and five billion, up from $1.9 billion just four years in.

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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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