TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

Led by CEO and co-founder Kahlil Lalji , the startup is launching with a split account product that just raised $3.5 ” The company built out an internal ledger to track the way that money is moving between user accounts, in a way that the co-founder thinks a lot of other fintechs don’t.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

USV’s Albert Wenger has been writing his book, World After Capital , which lays out the argument that money is no longer the scarce asset driving the economy, but rather, it’s attention. They’ll have to back up the truck for their best companies, take acquisitions off the table, and go right after the incumbents head-on.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

million users with over 8,000 merchants across 500 cities in Pakistan, and is on track to having a monthly loan book of more than $12 million. PostEx co-founder and CEO Omer Khan told TechCrunch that according to the World Bank, about 100 million adults in Pakistan don’t have a bank account. PostEx will now serve 1.3 It has raised $8.6

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

Challenger banks continue to make significant waves in the world of finance, with smaller outfits luring customers away from incumbents by providing an easier way for them to not only engage with basic banking services, but to tap into a wave of technology that brings more personalization and often better deals into the equation.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 20, 2024

There’s knowledge that people have in their heads that is not on the internet and is not in any book. You know, incumbents versus startups. But in the last cycle, and maybe just from a B2B lens here, in SaaS and cloud, there were a bunch of things that made it really difficult for the incumbents to actually innovate.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

Launched in 1987, the company provides hundreds of transportation and hospitality providers with inventory management and booking services. The fundraising market is losing some of its founder-friendly shine. The fundraising market is losing some of its founder-friendly shine. venture capital activity,” he writes.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 5, 2022

Affirm — which was founded by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin — has built technology that can underwrite individual transactions, and once determining a customer is eligible, it can offer them the option to pay on a biweekly or monthly basis. I can never be a fly on the wall the same way a founder can, so tell me what I’m missing!

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

“The rule is very confusing and strange,” said a fintech founder on condition of anonymity to avoid upsetting RBI officials. ” the founder added. India’s credit bureau data book is thin, making most individuals in the South Asian market unworthy of credit.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

To understand why Draper Esprit not only decided to stay public but doubled down on its structure by moving to the main boards in London and Dublin, we got on the horn with the firm’s co-founder, Stuart Chapman. You have large incumbents with very outdated systems, but a very loyal and a very high degree of trust customer base.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

“Both Phil [Gulley, the company’s CRO and co-founder] and I are driven by the desire to solve problems. ” Cofactr co-founders Matthew Haber (l) and Phil Gulley (r). The next wave of supply-chain innovation will be driven by startups that help incumbents win. Image Credits: Cofactr (opens in a new window).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

billion in deposits on its books, and it is using that to run its loan product rather than taking out debt. Why Will Ferrell? Case in point: He told me that currently Lunar has some €1.3 Its loan products are currently the highest revenue generators at Lunar, he said.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 17, 2014

First, they believe that the current offerings from the financial incumbents are lacking. Regulation becomes the friend of the incumbent in highly regulated industries through a process known as regulatory capture. we immediately thought of Wealthfront , the automated investment service started by Benchmark founder Andy Rachleff.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

There’s an audio-only version of TechCrunch Live hosted by Matt that features founders and investors discussing successful pitch decks. Articles from the episode: A third straight week of tech layoffs in the books. Extras: Hana Mohan’s Twitter thread on the YC advice to founders. Hana Mohan’s episode of Found.

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Y Combinator

MAY 6, 2020

Only 29% of apparel, 11% of health & personal care, and 3% of food & beverage purchases were expected to happen online in 2020 in the US (compared to 55% and 43% of books/music and computers/electronics purchases, respectively 4 ). These numbers reveal a missing element in e-commerce.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Founders : Before beU delivery, Hao Zheng, who leads the team as chief executive, was the founder and CEO of Yooul, a social networking app in China. Founders : Ahmed Ismail, a second-time founder who has worked for Goldman Sachs and Barclays, is the CEO. Location : Khartoum, Sudan. Website : [link].

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

For the past three years, UpCodes and its founders have been entangled in a copyright lawsuit filed by the International Code Council (ICC). And in all those cases, big old incumbents like ICC will try to find ways to slow down their new competitors.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2022

A tool that might — she somewhat biasedly believes, being its founder — is Clipboard, an online marketplace that pairs nurses, nursing assistants and other healthcare professionals with facilities in need of staffing. And you have patients who are slipping through the cracks, because they can’t get the care they need.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

When it comes to using algorithms and other formulae to determine what kinds of services you might offer to specific customers and at what price, the insurance industry is one of the oldest in the book. it is estimated that less than 1% of founders are Black, and the figures for founders of color are equally appalling in Europe.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Now we’re hosting something like 300,000 users, in every state and some territories,” said Uzoma Orchingwa, founder and CEO of the company. LinkedIn Learning, Masterclass, PBS, we’re uploading thousands of books from Gutenberg. ” Build products that improve the lives of inmates.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 7, 2024

In Alchemy , the founder of a major brand agency describes the way many of the major consumer companies in the world created brands. There are other gems : we buy brands to satisfice is a reformulation of the trope No One is Fired for Buying Software from the Incumbent. The book argues that the unexpected drives consumer behavior.

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Y Combinator

APRIL 26, 2021

Business credit is traditionally underwritten based on the founders’ FICO scores. As international founders with less than a month of credit history, their chances of getting approved were slim to none, despite having $125K in the bank. Brex gave startup founders a daily view into the month’s cumulative expenses (vs.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 22, 2011

It’s also true that I’m mostly founder driven, where the founding team & my personal relationship with them leads to a strong mutual working relationship. Ones that offer amazing value (low relative margins) at high volumes that makes it nearly impossible for high-cost incumbents to compete. How does the incumbent respond?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

So when Sam Rosen came to me with the idea of disrupting storage with a product that is priced cheaper than existing incumbents and he could build a product that is a better service I was intrigued. How much money will airlines companies, hotel companies or event companies pay me as a referral or for booking? Market Structure.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

Besides seeking to snag market share from incumbents such as Concur, Brex is also taking on startups such as Navan (formerly called TripActions) — which actually started its business focused on travel expense management before broadening its offering — and also Ramp, which itself expanded into travel last year.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Innovator’s Dilemma – In his seminal book, “The Innovator’s Dilemma,&# Clay Christensen talks about why industry leaders almost always fail to act when “disruptive change&# enters their business. Incumbents can’t react. If you haven’t read his book please do yourself a favor and buy it.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Other monetization blocks allow creators to accept donations or sell digital downloads — like e-books or paid video content, for instance. The idea for Beacons comes from co-founders Neal Jean, Jesse Zhang, Greg Luppescu and David Zheng. The creator can then send out a personalized response either publicly or privately.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

In emerging markets, similar products are creeping up to address what Kolors CEO and founder Rodrigo Martínez says is something of an antiquated industry. “The new bus passenger is millennials and centennials who want a better service than the incumbents can provide.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Co-founder and CEO Trenton Chen earned his Masters and PhD in the United States before returning to Taiwan to join TSMC. During that time, one of his co-founders was living in Los Angeles, working as an importer for a family business. When I was in the States, I knew a lot of people in this industry as well.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Calendly , the scheduling startup that landed with a splash last year when it raised a huge round out of nowhere at a $3 billion+ valuation , has made a name for itself for tools that are used by more than 10 million people to book appointments, arrange meetings and plan any event that involves two or more people making time for each other.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Penguin Business describes Starling Bank founder Anne Boden’s “Banking On It” as the “first-hand account of one woman’s quest to rebuild Britain’s broken banking system.” Yet, concludes the future Starling founder, the big banks had learned nothing and were determined to continue with business as usual.

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

In a few days, Thiel and Masters will release a book version of these notes called Zero to One: Notes on Startups or How to Build the Future. These are my three favorite ideas from the book. Idea 1: Founders should aim to create monopolies. In other words, founders should build monopolies. (p.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 24, 2022

ET, M13 managing partner Karl Alomar is joining senior editor Walter Thompson on a Twitter Space to share tactics and strategies for founders who plan to fundraise during this downturn. TechCrunch+ is our membership program, which helps founders and startup teams get ahead. On Monday, June 27 at 11:30 a.m. PT/2:30 p.m. Big Tech Inc.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 22, 2014

” In his book Antifragile, Taleb expands this theory to all of human development. The paper book will continue to flourish until the point the ebook takes over. ” With one phrase, a founder can summarize the competitive dynamics within an industry. The Lindy Effect works until it doesn’t.

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Y Combinator

MAY 1, 2019

Craig Cannon [00:00:40] – Matt Hackett, who is Casey Neistat’s co-founder. ” C++ is not a great first language to learn, especially if it’s just from a book. Craig Cannon [00:20:17] – I’m not much a fan for business books, but there’s one called The E-Myth.

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A Smart Bear

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Founders almost never have a real strategy. They say things like “we have a unique feature” and “the incumbents are dumb,” which might be true, but isn’t a strategy. Founders explain failures with things like “our two main competitors did [thing] to us” or “customers didn’t understand [our point of view].” Often, you can’t.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Remember to book your tickets to the show today before prices go up $1,100. . After inking deals with Amazon and Walmart, the Quidsi and Jet.com co-founder aims to launch a “more equitable” city in the desert. We have lots more news and speakers to share in the coming weeks, but here is a first peek! Disrupt Stage Agenda.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 13, 2024

It does a search across, you know, basically all of these words and sentences and diagrams and books and photos and everything that human beings have created. His best, most well-known book is called “The Managerial Revolution” which talks a lot about the issues we’ve been discussing. It essentially does a search.

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