TechCrunch

JUNE 5, 2022

As such, companies that offer that technology to merchants are unsurprisingly growing more competitive with each other. This past week, San Francisco–based Affirm announced it was making its buy now, pay later technology available to U.S. Buy now, pay later has become nearly ubiquitous here in the U.S. Case in point.

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Haystack

JUNE 5, 2018

With nearly 30M users, over 85M code repositories, and marquee technology customers like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Apple, among others, GitHub’s ubiquity made it invaluable. As expected, many developers didn’t love the news that some of their work would be concentrated in the hands of a tech incumbent.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

It also plans to focus on improving the technology on its platform, which it moved from a third-party provider to in-house in 2020. The big incumbents haven’t figured out how to make plans affordable and accessible for smaller companies,” Schneble said. “We “We don’t need new products,” he told TechCrunch.

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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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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. Also proof that many financial institutions realize the value of acquiring technology rather than building it out themselves. You can read all about it here.

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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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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. Whether that means integrating Google Pay or working with startups to develop technologies we don’t have the capacity to work on ourselves.”.

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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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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Most frequently people use this phrase in association with personal technology devices (heart-monitors, exercise accessories, sleep monitors, etc) that allow consumers to take direct control of their health information. Technology to the Rescue? The subject of the “consumerization of healthcare” has been around for many years.

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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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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

Cockroach Labs has a bright future, compelling technology, a lot of money in the bank and has an experienced, technically astute executive team. It has to overcome significant hurdles to secure a profitable place for itself among a set of well-established database technologies that are owned by companies with very deep pockets.

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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. But a lot of people are trying to copy what we’re doing.

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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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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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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Machine learning models predict code, synthesize images, author blog posts reducing composition time by a factor of 2 or 3. Tougher markets demand better product-market fit from startups leveraging the new technology of the era. Here are my predictions for 2023. The hangover from web3’s raucous 2022 extends into 2023.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

And I published this on my own startups blog. And what I found is that a lot of people who are technical that ended up being successful, they never stop loving kind of what's new, where technology is going, how behaviors are changing, that sort of thing. Because people don't love the incumbent right now. that people love.

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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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