Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Capital allocation is a core part of any CEO’s job, and it’s particularly critical for growth-stage CEOs. Most growth-stage CEOs I work with know how to tell if they’re efficiently allocating capital in every part of their budget with one glaring exception: research and development (R&D).

frameworks

Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 13, 2024

AI, I think, so far is living up to that framework. You know, I would say Europe is sort of a dark horse in a sort of a strange way, in that the EU seems absolutely determined to ban everything, to sort of put a blanket ban on capitalism and within that, ban AI and ban energy. I believe that it will.

energy

TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

billion pool of capital to work by backing early-stage web3 companies. with Vanessa Larco (NEA), Kanyi Maqubela (Kindred Ventures), Jordan Nof (Tusk Venture Partners), Bryan Offutt (Index Ventures) and Ulili Onovakpuri (Kapor Capital). It seems to be true accessibility in a framework that works with the existing U.S.

disruption

abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Eventually, however, we gained our footing and developed a mental model for the industry and a framework for where opportunities do exist. Bill is a general partner at Benchmark, one of Silicon Valley’s really legendary venture capital firms. Bill Gurley : Well, industries get more regulated and incumbents write the regulation.

health

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

But a new startup, DynamoFL , hopes to take on the incumbents with a federated learning platform that focuses on performance, ostensibly without sacrificing privacy. Tech giants, including Nvidia (via Clara ), offer federated learning as a service. ” Recently, DynamoFL closed a small seed round ($4.15

incumbents

TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

payments landscape is currently dominated by legacy and new-age incumbents, and we know competition would ultimately deliver better outcomes for consumers. These events underscore the need for a clear regulatory framework. While we’ve grown a lot in APAC and EMEA, the U.S. Can you share revenue/growth metrics (YoY)?

innovation

Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Understand the buyer’s roadmap, their build vs. buy framework, and their best alternative Once you’ve identified the buyer and, ideally, a champion for whom you’re solving a problem, the next step is to understand the buyer’s process. We’ve seen many companies spend more than 80% of their total capital raised on compute resources alone.

incumbents

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

To create a framework for founders who are charting a path from $1 million to $25 million in annual revenue, Arthur Nobel, a principal at Knight Capital, conducted 47 interviews with founders and investors who’ve taken startups from Series A to C. Startups have more options than ever to lower their reliance on venture capital.

financing

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2020

Connie Loizos sat down with Jason Green of leading enterprise-focused firm Emergence Capital to get his view of SPACs , and how they are likely to be used next year and beyond. A framework for how to think of higher education’s main three products (including which is most defensible over time). Virtual fundraising is here to stay.

education

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

The antitrust bills, if passed, could significantly restrict the ability of Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and other tech incumbents to acquire and punish rivals to boost their own products and services. Quona Capital sinking $332M into startups focused on financial inclusion. billion in revenue next year due to newly imposed trade rules.

startup

OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

Frameworks To Become A Billionaire. Or you don't do that that framework? Yeah, I have that framework. Sam: for me, yeah, I have that framework. Because people don't love the incumbent right now. I know Shaan, you love frameworks. The Hustle My First Million Episode #197. Full Episode Transcript Below.

frameworks

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Skio is taking on incumbents like ReCharge Payments, which too has built subscription software for e-commerce brands and was valued at $2.1 It claims to use modern frameworks that allow it to “build much quicker” than existing offerings. Prior to founding Adjacent, Nico worked at Point Nine Capital and Insight Partners.

incumbents

TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2022

million in seed funding to make its mission a reality, with backers including OSS Capital; Lux Capital; Sisu Game Ventures; and — somewhat notably — Bob Young , the cofounder and former CEO of Red Hat, an enterprise-focused open-source company that IBM went on to acquire for $34 billion in 2019.

incumbents

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2010

I found that I was always more curious about issues like “why do you charge for your web hosting services this way when newer non-incumbent players do not?&# Of course there are times where a board’s voice is gospel: mergers, raising capital, replacing the CEO, etc. And it’s true. until the technology matures?&#.

peer-to-peer

TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

Does the ability to make users collective owners in the platform’s success give you an advantage over web2 incumbents? Will access to a shared, open, data layer make your offering more attractive than if you hoard the data in a proprietary database? Can you bootstrap one side (or both sides) of a marketplace through in-protocol incentives?

frameworks

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

But it feels like we have written far less about fintechs that exist solely to help the incumbents better compete with fintechs. Other investors include B Capital, Point72 Ventures, Fintech Collective, Reciprocal Ventures, Wells Fargo and Pacific Western Bank. We help the incumbents close the gap relative to those players.”.

incumbents

TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2022

At TechCrunch Early Stage this month, we sat down with Felicis Ventures partners Viviana Faga and Niki Pezeshki to talk about scaling, product-market fit, and why it’s crucial to be “10x better” than the incumbents. Faga and Pezeshki believe that startups need a framework to measure their initial push into a niche audience.

SaaS