Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In which categories do incumbents dominate—and where are new companies breaking out? This suggests that it’s possible to get a large AI product off the ground quickly, and with relatively little capital—though another 15% have raised upwards of $50 million already! Who might be the next “big winner”? The tech stack.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

2 Incumbent banks miss the mark in two crucial areas: The banking experience has not evolved to match modern consumer expectations. Monzo attacked incumbent models by creating an entirely app-based experience where customers could open a checking account from their phone for free. Venmo) or split the bill (e.g.,

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Europe is perhaps an obvious first step for Neeva’s inaugural expansion plans, owing to the slew of antitrust complaints currently faced by the mighty incumbent Google, with legislators targeting everything from e-commerce (Google Shopping) and Android to its dominance of the online ad market. France and Germany. ” Privacy push.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

Raji sees adoption of Statsig coming from a few different places: developers and engineers that are downloading it and using it to serve a few million people a month, and then through referrals. The Seattle-based company on Thursday announced $10.4 Now the company is talking to bigger customers.

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Y Combinator

APRIL 26, 2021

Even with $125K from YC and $1–2M in venture funding, a startup’s credit limit is still likely to tap out at $20K from an incumbent creditor—which is not nearly enough to cover software, marketing, and other expenses. incumbent offerings which only offered end-of-month reconciliation). The incumbent system involves three key “stacks.”

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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. This is an excerpt from OurCrowd’s Q2 Innovation Insider, download it here. About the Author.

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Y Combinator

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

There are so many directions this can go—fighting disease, slowing aging, merging humans and computers, downloading memories, genetic programming, etc. This would allow them to avoid the challenges faced by other synthetic biology companies that had to do capital intensive build-outs of massive fermentation facilities.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 17, 2013

Then came client-server, which also launched new winners at the expense of older incumbents. The browser-based Internet launched many new companies, several of which have achieved market capitalizations in the billions. However, try to download detailed stats and you can see the app open an embedded browser and load a web page.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Bill is a general partner at Benchmark, one of Silicon Valley’s really legendary venture capital firms. He talks about his view that maybe democracy [and capitalism are just going to eat each other alive. You can download The Weeds live episode for that. You can get it wherever fine podcasts are downloaded.

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