Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

There were many moments in each space when pioneers were funding startups and the press hadn’t written much about them and if you were a typical investor you were still funding the last trend while some VCs were trailblazing into new categories. .” Startup Lessons' Almost nobody believed and now look at it.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

I have always loved watching videos there but always believed that any company controlled by a consortia of interests would be doomed in the long run – especially by established, large incumbents with an interest in protecting the past more than innovating the future.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2021

Challenger banks continue to see huge infusions of cash from investors bullish on the opportunity for smaller and faster-moving tech-based banking startups to woo customers from their larger rivals. That bigger market picture has also meant a surge of many neobanks, and so Starling competes with more than just the incumbents.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 28, 2024

For new entrants looking to take advantage of the advent of LLMs and disrupt the status quo by going upstream of these incumbents, we’ve done a deep dive into Bloomberg, Morningstar, and Verisk’s stories. Lessons for Startups Bloomberg’s initial insight was to corner hard-to-access data and give it to customers in a usable format.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

For nearly all fintech startups, lending has long been the end game. Several startups including Slice, Jupiter, Uni and KreditBee have long used the PPI licenses to issue cards and then equip them with credit lines. India’s credit bureau data book is thin, making most individuals in the South Asian market unworthy of credit.

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Founders Coop

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

– Startups booking sales to other startups laundered the money flood and called it “blitzscaling”. LLMs are compute and energy hogs, and renting state of the art bundles of compute and energy by the millisecond is what tech incumbents do best. So what’s a founder to do?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

If you read Reid Hoffman’s important book, “ Blitzscaling ” you’ll realize that in some markets that are large, global and being disruptive sometimes being first to global scale can be more important than short-term unit economics. Last year I pointed out that software would help build competitive moats and we’re already seeing that.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Most startups play defense when discussing pricing with customers. Startups operate in newer markets where pricing standards haven’t been set. But throughout this turmoil, startups must adopt a process to craft a good pricing strategy, and re-evaluate prices periodically, at least once per year. AWS, Twilio, Heroku, etc.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

Ivella , a Santa Monica-based startup, wants to build banking products for couples to take away some of these tensions. Led by CEO and co-founder Kahlil Lalji , the startup is launching with a split account product that just raised $3.5 This wasn’t how the startup, well, started.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Marc Andreessen spoke with fellow a16z General Partner Martin Casado about how entrepreneurs and startups might think about generative AI, largely from a product perspective. … You have to learn, you have to adjust, and, if you’re not, you’ll have a problem to find a job.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 20, 2024

I think different startups will choose different paths here. There’s knowledge that people have in their heads that is not on the internet and is not in any book. Fault tolerance as a wedge for startups David: So, yeah, that brings me to another topic, which is related to market structure. Adam: Mm-hmm. Yeah, yeah.

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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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Revolution

JUNE 10, 2019

In fact, according to the 2018 year-end report by CREtech , funding for “proptech” startups has surged with over $20 billion invested across early and late stage venture rounds in the last two years?—?quickly quickly making real estate technology one of the fastest growing venture asset classes.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

This time, the ICC is suing UpCodes for false advertising and unfair competition, claiming that the startup’s copies of building codes are “incomplete and riddled with errors.” ” He added, “It’s a model of how open government data can drive new innovations and successful startups.

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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. This acquisition makes PostEx the largest e-commerce service provider in the market, showing the potential of startups for challenging incumbents. PostEx will now serve 1.3

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Much of this can trickle down into the startup ecosystem. 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. I am expecting a downturn at some point. Dreams can be fueled here.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Y Combinator’s latest batch — W22 — features 414 startups from 42 countries, representing more than 80 sectors. India, with 32 startups, is the second-largest demographic represented in the new batch, while Nigeria is third, having delivered 18 startups. As usual, the U.S. has the most representation. beU delivery.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

TechCrunch has cited Draper Esprit partners in our explorations of the European venture capital scene in the past, especially in our regular digs through the startup hub’s numbers. No one realized that venture capital was an escalator, and unless you could pass the baton to the next person, [startups] have to do it themselves.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 5, 2022

It processes hundreds of billions of dollars each year for “every size of business — from startups to Fortune 500s.” 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. Perhaps it dodged a bullet?

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Andreessen Horowitz

AUGUST 30, 2023

For those that don’t know, the title of this post is a play on the book Barbarians at the Gate , by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, which chronicles the battle to buy RJR Nabisco in 1988.) In the background, there was also a profoundly impactful technological revolution called the spreadsheet. billion, against almost $2.8

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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. Amadeus has 16,000 employees and earned more than $2 billion in revenue last year, but early-stage startups can learn from its digital transition, Ron writes.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

The startup has raised €70 million ($77 million at today’s rates), at what I understand from a person close to the company to be a $2 billion post-money valuation. billion in deposits on its books, and it is using that to run its loan product rather than taking out debt. Why Will Ferrell?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

” The passage of the CHIPS Act could launch another US startup renaissance. The next wave of supply-chain innovation will be driven by startups that help incumbents win. It ain’t pretty out there, but that’s the fertile ground in which supply chain startups get to sow their opportunities.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

Surely that’s music to the ears of startups whose tech is designed to reduce cost spend. “We’re able to predict lower future compute prices to impact future batch workload scheduling, kind of like searching for a cheaper flight on Kayak and booking a future date that’s cheaper,” Frayman explained.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 16, 2016

The CEO wants better predictability of bookings so she’ll buy a CRM tool to gather the data. And new SaaS companies who aim to displace incumbent systems of record will architect their products in a radically different way. A senior SaaS executive once told me, “Reports sell software.”

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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., dashboards to help price freight when brokers are calling around to find a truck), rather than rethinking the process of booking freight entirely.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

We’re also building a growing stable of podcasts focused on the most critical topics relating to the startup and venture capital worlds. Finally, there’s Equity , TechCrunch’s long-running, Webby-award-winning podcast focused on venture capital and the latest startup news, hosted by Natasha , Mary Ann and Alex.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2022

Using the platform, facilities can post shifts they need to fill and healthcare workers can book these shifts, managing their schedules via Clipboard’s mobile app. Also prior to Clipboard, she led product management and business operations at Sendwave, an international money transfer startup. Growth opportunities. invested $37.9

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Indeed, Kremerman says that his company charges a smaller markup, around 15-18%, on each hour or day that’s booked through its platform. In addition to market expansion, Kremerman said the fresh cash injection will be used to double its headcount to 200 in the next six months, as well as acquire some incumbents in the market.

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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

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Ameelio , a nonprofit startup that intends to replace inmate-paid video calling in prisons with a free service, is making inroads against the companies that have dominated the space for decades. “We’re a lean startup, and we do everything in house.” “We don’t have that pressure,” said Orchingwa.

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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. Now, a U.K.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 29, 2014

This is the framework I’ve seen work well for freemium startups. The nature of sales processes is evolving as Daniel Pink eloquently argued in his book To Sell is Human. Second, freemium startups leverage usage data to improve their product. Is there a common characteristic of successful freemium companies?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

One of these is Snipd , a Swiss startup building a podcast app that uses AI to transcribe content and synchronize with note-taking apps; automatically generate book-style “chapters”; and, as of this week, deliver podcast highlights in a TikTok-style personalized feed. Amazon also recently rolled out podcast transcriptions.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

David Goldhill, in his enlightening book Catastrophic Care , declared: “…a guiding principle of any reform should be to put the consumer, not the insurer or the government, at the center of the system. How far in advance do you have to book an appointment ( the average is 24 days )? They also allow online booking.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Many startup businesses – tech or otherwise – fail. Trying outrageous new things or even trying mundane things but in new ways but with extreme quality & innovation is what fuels the tech startup industry. But today I want to give you advice on how to decrease your odds of failure in a startup.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Ones that offer amazing value (low relative margins) at high volumes that makes it nearly impossible for high-cost incumbents to compete. If you’re a startup and you haven’t read my summary of Clay Christensen’s seminal work please do. How does the incumbent respond? That’s what I mean by deflationary economics.

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