Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2015

Try to imagine if you *didn’t* already know Amazon and the company walking into VC meetings telling people they were going to disrupt the selling of all goods starting with books but then extending into electronics, apparel, toys and so forth. The value prop is pretty clear. And here’s the thing. Are the dinosaurs worried?

real estate

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.

incumbents

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.

hospitality

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.

opportunity

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.

startup

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.

VC

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?

incumbents

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.

transportation

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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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.

accelerator

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.

incumbents

Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

He’s also a Silicon Valley venture capitalist, sits on the boards of several startups, is a many-time entrepreneur himself, and was previously an exec at GE and Intel. As a venture capitalist who frequently works with tech startups, what are some of the traditional competencies that startups typically overlook and underappreciate?

incumbents

Y Combinator

MAY 1, 2019

” C++ is not a great first language to learn, especially if it’s just from a book. At what point do you decide, “Okay, Yelp, this has been cool, I want to move the a smaller startup?” Craig Cannon [00:20:17] – I’m not much a fan for business books, but there’s one called The E-Myth.

peer-to-peer

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. Well, so first of all, to be clear, we’re very much in favor of young people not dating, because that’s very distracting from their work at our startups. Marc: Yeah.

energy

TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

But after a couple of years coming to you virtually, the world’s most impactful tech startup conference is coming back to real life. And in the name of coming back bigger and better than ever, the Disrupt Startup Battlefield has grown by 10x. Remember to book your tickets to the show today before prices go up $1,100. .

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

But that’s really just the starting point and that’s when I put out a Tweet three years ago and started meeting with digital healthcare [00:05:00] startups. I got very lucky early on because someone introduced me to a book by David Goldhill called “Catastrophic Care.” Ezra Klein : What was that Tweet?

health

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.

incumbents

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.

incumbents

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.

peer-to-peer

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.

startup

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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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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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.

health

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Fewer than 300 pages, the book parachutes the reader immediately into a cab journey in Ireland that Boden is taking post-financial crisis, when bankers weren’t exactly close to the public’s heart. Anne Boden: As you know, I’ve already done another book, “The Money Revolution.”

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

Sam: Prior to that, you had another startup that you sold for a significant amount of money, we can talk about that. Sam: You're an angel investor in a lot of different startups, including Coinbase and things like that. And we're going to talk about, do you ever invest in non startup stuff? That's pretty funny. Let's jump in.

frameworks

This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 23, 2023

One of my favorite startups to have backed was a travel company called Noken. and then BOOM they sent you a link to an app with your whole trip, completely booked, with a map driven itinerary and a text concierge available to make last minute changes, etc. I’m sure he could get a seed round for a travel startup without any issue.

incumbents

Revolution

MARCH 23, 2022

At SXSW 2022, Revolution Growth Partner, Todd Klein, joined SparkCharge CEO and founder, Josh Aviv, GoodBuy Gear CEO and co-founder, Kristin Langenfeld, and CAVA CEO and co-founder, Brett Schulman, for a conversation on climate, consumers, and building the sustainable startups of the future. even (and especially) as the company scales.

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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?

VC

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.

transportation

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.

incumbents

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

incumbents

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

opportunity

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?

incumbents

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.

incumbents

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.”

SaaS

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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