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

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

APRIL 4, 2023

In any case, it’s a reasonably compelling sales pitch. “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.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Given there was a recession and a lot of uncertainty, it was a much easier pitch, considering we could offer a more affordable product,” Schneble said. The big incumbents haven’t figured out how to make plans affordable and accessible for smaller companies,” Schneble said. “We Last year, that number dropped to about 50%.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

And I published this on my own startups blog. I'm going to give you my pitch, Shaan. 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.

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Y Combinator

MAY 8, 2019

We’d meet once or twice a week, and work on the idea, and pitch it to law firms. What was your pitch even like? And I helped him set up his blog, and I remember he wrote his first blog article. 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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