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. Learning From USV and Foundry.

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Andreessen Horowitz

JUNE 3, 2024

As video and 3D animations, for example, have been exciting newer verticals, lacking incumbents, these verticals, along with others, are where we also expect to see a number of new companies forming. How can a blog post’s headline be adjusted to optimize search? via Captions ). Where Are We Now?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 5, 2022

And this gives Affirm an opportunity to generate more revenue as it makes money in part on interest fees. 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.

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Haystack

JUNE 5, 2018

Stepping back, it’s interesting to see this cultural shift among larger companies who are comfortable with these co-branding scenarios, which actually may provide better PR and future opportunities to add to their portfolios.

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 21, 2021

There is a clear opportunity to upend the status quo, but its intricacies have made freight one of the toughest sectors in which to build an online marketplace. 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.,

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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. Having founded multiple startups across various industries, I’ve gone through this discovery process for dozens of startup ideas, potential features, and market opportunities.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 14, 2013

Being on those lists and getting into certain events has real impact on your opportunity set, and that's not b t at all. Did I miss an opportunity to get to know someone that I should have taken? Maybe I'm not working hard enough--and then the frustration becomes not at the person making the list, but at myself.

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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. Buyers now expect stores to offer an opportunity to connect with a brand in a way that is relational rather than purely transactional. “A

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

One obvious solution to this list of issues and opportunities is to leverage technology to better serve the needs of the customer. As venture capital investors, we value investment opportunities that are exposed to huge shifts in a given market — particularly really large markets such as the U.S. Do they conduct surveys?

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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. Maximize opportunity rather than minimize down-side. Founders almost never have a real strategy. Leave money on the table.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

And I published this on my own startups blog. And if you miss that opportunity, you have no idea when the next opportunity to cash out your chips. Because people don't love the incumbent right now. And if I link to just one person, it's your blog, Sam, all the page rank I have on that page accrues to you by transference.

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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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