Y Combinator

JANUARY 21, 2021

They can accrue huge value by reducing friction and aggregating supply and demand — particularly because they have the ability to build network effects and economies of scale. 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.,

incumbents 72

incumbents transportation networking mix-use 72

Continuations

OCTOBER 18, 2019

This made sense in the age of the printed newspaper and the telephone network of yesteryear. The second trap is misunderstanding network effects. But each of these three separate networks would still be ridiculously powerful in its own right and so would be Twitter and whatever new networks are yet to come.

networking 40

networking incumbents education innovation 40

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. Distribution: what existing networks can we latch onto for easier distribution (i.e., Examples include: Target customer: are these folks easy to find? Easy to sell to?

frameworks 79

frameworks startup incumbents opportunity 79

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.

real estate 87

real estate financing finance venture capital 87

This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 14, 2013

You're in a different network of peers and they're getting some invites that you don't. 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. Where did I make that wrong turn?

peer-to-peer 296

peer-to-peer incumbents opportunity media 296

abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Narrow Networks — Narrow networks are an interesting response to the above market prices that the large hospitals and groups are pushing on the broader market. Obviously, if narrow networks increase in popularity, more and more market share shifts to providers that are willing to respond to competitive market-based price demands.

health 59

health hospitality networking mix-use 59

OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

And I published this on my own startups blog. What you should do, since now you're out of Twitch, you should do a professional network that's powered by the blockchain that, and I'm going to say this as kindly. Because people don't love the incumbent right now. And we have this list of questions we're going to go through.

frameworks 135

frameworks culture advice networking 135

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.

consulting 54

consulting advice founder peer-to-peer 54