Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Reviewing the BLS’ data on employment for white collar work, I aggregated the data to these categories. The major areas of AI innovation automate white-collar work. It’s striking that most of them already have a significant number of AI startups pursuing their ambitions to change workflows. Sales Managers 0.4

data analysis 95

data analysis construction education creativity 95

This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 10, 2015

To benefit from the explosive growth of companies like Uber, Airbnb, Dropbox, etc, you had to fit in either one of two categories: be an angel investor already in an inner circle of experienced angels and entrepreneurs, largely located in Silicon Valley, or be an investor in a venture capital fund that backed those companies.

venture capital 310

venture capital capital ventures communities 310

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

My partner Steven Dietz is an auto enthusiast and more than just an admirer of amazing cars he has worked around the auto industry for 20 years and backed a couple of billion-dollar startups in the category. Whenever somebody has a car startup I send it straight his way. Roger Ehrenberg with big data and also financial technology companies.

peer-to-peer 373

peer-to-peer VC pitching entrepreneurs 373

American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 26, 2025

Dan Amiga, Islands CTO and Co-founder, emphasized the importance of customer collaboration in building the product: Creating and growing a new category requires deep technical partnerships and maximum trust between CIOs, CISOs, and product teams. The post Island Raises $250M Series E Funding, Reaches $4.8

hospitality 86

hospitality entrepreneurship SaaS innovation 86

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2015

MakeSpace set out to reinvent the whole category. We are building a national business and a beloved brand in a category that is large, fragmented and universally hated. Innovation. The stocks are managed as REITs (real estate investment trusts) and their tenants are you skis, bikes and winter clothes.

real estate 364

real estate startup disruption incumbents 364

Dream It

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Are you creating a new market category, or is your product going to span multiple categories? Tell investors how your vision affects your go-to-market strategy and how you’ll expand across verticals within the industry that you’re tackling. As all investors know from the case of Uber, you cannot size a market based on an incumbent.

pitching 286

pitching incumbents transportation strategy 286

American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 5, 2025

With strong tailwinds in both the GLP-1 and fiber categories, Supergut is well positioned for exceptional growth in the coming years, and Im honored to lead the next chapter. This innovation has drawn significant attention from both consumers and retailers, reinforcing Superguts leadership in the gut health and metabolic wellness space.

leadership 76

leadership health peer-to-peer mix-use 76

Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 12, 2021

As we finish the week of International Women’s Day, what better story to share than one of a woman who created a whole new beverage category while pregnant with her fourth child, with three kids under the age of 6 and a US$50,000 budget!? In the category of “things she didn’t see coming,” Goldin recounts her experience with Starbucks.

founder 300

founder disruption health creativity 300

Hunter Walk

OCTOBER 14, 2024

At the same time, 2018 was the summer of LaCroix and other flavored sparkling water brands across a larger $45 billion carbonated soft drink category that has been in decline in the U.S. BTS, the K-pop group, was going on a nationwide tour where they were literally selling out football stadiums. as consumers reduce their sugary soda intake.

culture 96

culture collaboration startup finance 96

Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Did I miss any categories? Don’t be afraid to experiment, don’t be afraid to try something new – unless you’re really excited about podcasting and have a novel idea on how to break through the noise, it’s not worth doing. There, some loose thoughts on magnets.

startup 97

startup VC strategy leadership 97

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

We create a blind panel of 10 investors from venture funds who rate you anonymized pitch across multiple categories, providing you with a detailed report on how fundable and workable your idea is. It’s easier to handle if you’re getting that feedback consistently. That’s why we created Feedback.vc.

pitching 357

pitching VC opportunity founder 357

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 12, 2016

V1 of Tact has been a mobile-first CRM (which by the way will soon exceed a $50 billion market, making it the largest category for enterprise applications) but the team was very early in embracing enterprise applications for voice i/o (input, output). Chuck as a software visionary understood this.

real estate 244

real estate leadership board investing 244

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

If you want to understand the software trend that drove the creation of the seed-stage VC phenomenon I wrote about it that linked blog post but in short: cloud computing drove down the cost to create startups enabling a new category of investor. Jeff and his peer group have done an excellent job at creating a new category of seed-stage VC.

VC 348

VC peer-to-peer frameworks board 348

Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 15, 2024

The top three categories of techniques make up 80 percent of the most effective strategies entrepreneurs use to build mental resilience. Enhance Your Mental Resilience As entrepreneurs, each of us must find the activities we love in the categories of Movement, Mindset, and Connection. Sounds luxurious, doesn’t it?

peer-to-peer 253

peer-to-peer founder health entrepreneurship 253

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

It starts with a category being done poorly, reimagining the experience, creating distinctive products and then constantly messaging this to the market. If you tried to shop Amazon for just one of these categories?—?where In certain product categories that means building in features & functionality that isn’t a commodity.

sustainability 296

sustainability communities media disruption 296

American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 24, 2025

This end-to-end solution has positioned the company as a category creator in digital safety. Rather than addressing scams piecemeal, the platform tackles the full lifecycle of fraudfrom detection to user education to victim recovery. As scams evolve, the tools to fight them must evolve faster, said COO Evans.

startup ecosystem 77

startup ecosystem SaaS accelerator education 77

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

Have a shorter to-do list with more things that are in the “done” category. If by overnight you mean 2-3 years of people second-guessing the category followed by 2-3 years of steady growth, followed by large numbers categorized as overnight success and 9-10 years later a chance at an IPO. Easier said than done.

advice 398

advice VC entrepreneurs transportation 398

Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 20, 2022

They’re also the second most popular category of influencers on Instagram and have a follower count between 20k and 100k. That means most influencers fall into this category. . Mid-tier influencers. In a study conducted by Statista, this tier of content creators accounted for 26.8 percent of all types of influencers.

media 289

media mix-use strategy creativity 289

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

What that means to us at Upfront today and moving forward with Upfront VII and Growth III is a deeper concentration on those categories where we anticipate the most growth, the most value creation, and the biggest impact, most specifically: Healthcare & Applied Biology Defense Technologies Computer Vision Ag Tech & Sustainability Fintech Consumerization (..)

ventures 408

ventures startup peer-to-peer venture capital 408

Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Switching from the norm in your category introduces friction. Modern behavioral economics points toward three-part tariffs as potentially the optimal structure, especially when the number of vendors in a category is small. It commodifies the category by reinforcing a single dominant purchasing parameter: performance.

SaaS 113

SaaS strategy enablement startup 113

INBIA

APRIL 30, 2024

Awards included Entrepreneur Support Organization (ESO) of the year in multiple categories, specialty awards, and the field’s most prestigious awards,… This event was held April 14-17 in San Antonio, Texas.

support 195

support entrepreneurs business incubator incubation 195

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

And within each category, there are so many different investment opportunities. There are many ways to invest successfully. Public stocks, bonds, private equity, real estate, venture capital, etc. In public stocks, there are something like 5,000 listed stocks in the US.

real estate 250

real estate venture capital opportunity capital 250

Hunter Walk

MARCH 3, 2025

Could be pinning their thesis on a category of technology or type of founder that isn’t yet understood by the investment community. Mediocre VCs get wealthy themselves but they won’t make money for their LPs, and are, at best, just a WITHDRAWALS ATM for average startups.

peer-to-peer 88

peer-to-peer VC investing investment 88

Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 8, 2024

Beyond the inherent interest of these rankings, however, the data reveals several noteworthy trends around new and expanding categories, AI investment, and patterns of engagement. Read more on where we see potential in the AI music category here ). The second notable new category on the list is productivity.

mix-use 145

mix-use mentorship development communities 145

American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 24, 2025

Omnidian is a category creator addressing one of the clean power sectors biggest pain pointsuptime and maintenancewhile offering a world-class customer experience, said Ichiro Miyoshi, CEO and CIO of Marunouchi. The firms value proposition is resonating globally.

energy 90

energy investing investment accelerator 90

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

If you were a new developer in this category you often had to sub-contract in a fees-for-service arrangement to build for the big guys. Mobile really enabled the entire category and created the free-to-play powerhouses like Angry Birds, Words With Friends, Candy Crush, Clash of Clans, Cut the Rope, Best Fiends and others.

enablement 302

enablement consulting development support 302

This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

They got more data about what customers liked and didn't like very quickly, enabling them to change recipes and offerings, and expand to categories like breakfast, snacks, and sweets. Something interesting happened when Hungryroot got more popular and started to scale.

investing 259

investing investment real estate enablement 259

Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 16, 2024

As a result, to win in each category, we needed to expand from one great investor in each segment to a dedicated investing team with a differentiated platform in each category to help the best founders in those fields build amazing companies.

venture capital 144

venture capital networking health VC 144

Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Second, interaction field companies build a network of interactions, an architecture and governance rules in such as way that enables an entire industry or several industries to solve multiple consumer problems, industry or category problems and societal problems.

hospitality 312

hospitality health mix-use enablement 312

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JULY 23, 2020

Podcasts have emerged as a major new category in media/entertainment/news/education etc. We have seen huge deals for big podcast hosts like Bill Simmons and Joe Rogan, both of whom did transactions with Spotify for nine-figure amounts.

networking 196

networking education opportunity media 196

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 9, 2021

Train employees not only to value and respect diversity but also to see each individual as they see themselves — not as a “category” or an “other.”. Actively recruit members of marginalized or disadvantaged communities to be a part of your organization and create formal partnerships that encourage diversity and inclusion.

peer-to-peer 264

peer-to-peer education communities culture 264

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2015

It’s the most ambitious and has had the most impact on our daily lives basically creating the modern category of retailing. So what do I think about Amazon? I think it’s the most successful startup of our era. They push the boundaries on eReaders on video streaming on web hosting on logistics and a variety of other fronts.

culture 372

culture consulting startup finance 372

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2022

is a really apt term is I’m just naming certain categories of software that I know well, but I fail to see a future where all of those [categories], given the advances in compute and data and algorithms, don’t get more intelligent. Visual generation is not an existing software category. The reason I think that software 3.0

startup 130

startup real estate frameworks disruption 130

This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Stay Unfocused Some of the biggest startup opportunities in the last few years have come in categories that you wouldn't normally have considered to be VC backable--Tesla, Uber, Blue Apron, WeWork, Shake Shack, Fitbit, Warby Parker, etc.

venture capital 354

venture capital capital ventures VC 354

This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 15, 2020

Moreover, what if firms were required to publicly disclose those numbers—not to a person, but to a category? Mentorship and the building of track records within other people’s firms is an important pathway to partner, even in your own fund.

venture capital 308

venture capital ventures capital mentorship 308

American Entrepreneurship

MAY 31, 2024

based winner, Diana Yousef, Founder and CEO of change:WATER Labs in the e-Health category with the project, “iThrone.” The competition recognizes social impact projects in e-Health, Safe and Sustainable Mobility, and the Senior Economy. This year’s competition held in Madrid Spain yielded U.S.-based

innovation 111

innovation sustainability health culture 111