TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

TomoCredit is a credit card that operates with a debit card model that is issued by Community Federal Savings Bank, a member of the FDIC. More than 30 million young adults are considered “cash rich” but with limited credit histories, making their only option to use debit cards, according to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. .

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Y Combinator

MAY 6, 2020

Pinduoduo, on the other hand, has tried to mimic the offline shopping experience online by building community via their team purchase model, driving engagement via fun and interactive games and rewards, and offering personalized experiences and value via recommendations. Creating Community via Team Purchase.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

JULY 1, 2020

We also see this in our own communities. As ecosystem builders, we are new entrants coping with well-entrenched incumbents who are well-motivated to hold their turf. And again whether it’s ESHIP or a community, who gets funded is a powerful signal of legitimacy. 1) Find ways to reward bold action. Publicity (like this!)

education

TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

It was clear that the venture community — and the few entrepreneurs that they anointed to be part of their chosen — were a closely knit elite who wanted nothing to do with outsiders. It doesn’t need to be a zero-sum game where more people of color will push out the incumbents.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

The only worry is incumbents might want to eat into Duplo’s meal — but then again, the market is massive. What it says it does: Moni describes itself as a community bank for Africa. It provides financing to these agents using community and trust-based systems, claiming to do so in five minutes.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 13, 2023

And, in the case of Unity, the damaged trust from their recent pricing change execution has left the community seeking alternatives. Community modding enabled out of the box A next gen engine should be designed to enable a first-class modding environment out of the box that developers can choose to extend to end user creators.

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Y Combinator

MAY 1, 2019

I went to Georgia Tech for my undergrad in Computer Science, and I just found such a supportive community there that it was able to help support my natural interest, but also help me through the hard times. Because computer science is not an easy degree, by any means. Craig Cannon [00:33:01] – Fans, or who do you reach out to?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

At Disrupt, co-founders Carolyn Childers and Lindsay Kaplan will speak to the milestone, the challenges in between and if exclusivity can disrupt community. We’ll discuss her strategic vision for Call of Duty as a game and as a community, as well as her thoughts on the shifting landscape of gaming and esports. Acing Venture.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

I’ve backed multiple Black founders and entrepreneurs from the LGBTQ community and so I’ve seen a very wide mix of founders pitch, get funded and get passed on. We’ve seen studies on how men and women get asked different questions, but I also think it’s incumbent upon all founders to control the conversation.

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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. Early success: Foundations built on product and community. Outperforming incumbents with modern experience and digital infrastructure. expectations. Banks still rely on physical branches and don’t give.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Since its 2017 inception, Mos has opened access to a pool of over $160 billion in financial aid to the more than 400,000 students within its community. We don’t want to be elitist, we don’t want to do this for a very small category of people because we really want to become the incumbent bank in the U.S.,”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

Incumbents tend to be more wary of adapting new business models and gaming is no different. In our view it’s key to embrace a crypto native approach of building and experimenting with the product while also involving your community in the process. Anton Backman, principal, and Kenrick Drijkoningen, general partner, Play Ventures.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Goodles is going after the two oldest incumbents in the space, Kraft and Annie’s, to provide a healthy alternative that tackles both better taste and nutrition. When Zeszut was putting the company together, she reached out about getting involved. The Naked Market flashes some new capital to create better-for-you food brands.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

Founded in September 2020, the New York-based company – which was previously named Unlock – said it uses data science to “ identify, underwrite and close transactions 10x faster than incumbents.” ” It describes itself as a “managed marketplace.”

real estate

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In addition, 25% of the capital was raised from underrepresented communities, Bhettay said. Bhettay is also seeing the larger incumbents focus here, as well as marketing dollars, which he considers validation that the market is shifting to the digitalization of pet care. Fuzzy live chat via its app. Image Credits: Fuzzy.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

According to one recent survey (from MLOps Community), 84.3% The market for MLOps services could reach $4 billion by 2025, by one estimation , and includes startups like Databricks, DataRobot, Algorithmia and incumbents like Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services. Finding these issues is often a major pain point for data scientists.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Comun observed that no incumbent bank offers a full Spanish language banking experience. Comun offers a full banking experience available first in Spanish, bringing the Latino community together around the financial services they need. Comun gained investor support of $4.5M

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

Welcome Tech co-founder, CEO and president Amir Hemmat says his company’s initial approach was different than others in the space in that rather than launch a banking product and then set out to earn the trust of the community it aims to serve, it first “worked hard to earn that trust and understand the community’s needs.”

education

TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

Today’s news comes out from the Middle East and Africa where Eksab , an Egyptian platform that says it’s making football more exciting and interactive for every fan in both regions through gaming and online community building, has raised $ 3million in seed funding. and Europe.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

And talking about neobank offerings, Moneco , launched by three founders with finance and payments backgrounds, targets the migrant communities in Europe, starting with the African diaspora.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The banks and incumbents take advantage of that and make people feel like they’re not smart enough to manage their money. Flink has also built a community around the product so that people can share ideas and try to help each other, including a Facebook group made up of more than 35,000 people. . We need to educate on a basic level.”.

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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. Traditional banks have not been able to keep pace.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

But first up is Natasha’s dive into Mos , which founder Amira Yahyaoui says is gunnin’ to become “the incumbent bank in the U.S.” So it’s naturally building Cameo Pass, “an NFT-based community of Cameo talent and fans along with web3 enthusiasts,’” we report.

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Hunter Walk

MAY 17, 2024

Are there specific paths/opportunities in AI that you believe startups are actually better qualified to take advantage of than incumbents? A recent essay covered the ‘AI gold rush’ and as it related to startups operating in this area, very much ‘caution ahead’ in terms of building a sustainable, differentiated business.

founder

Haystack

JUNE 5, 2018

As expected, many developers didn’t love the news that some of their work would be concentrated in the hands of a tech incumbent.

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. While we’ve grown a lot in APAC and EMEA, the U.S. is the second-largest eCommerce market in the world and there is an extensive, untapped opportunity for growth there. We welcome them.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

Last year, TechCrunch published an op-ed from Nigel Morris around mental health stigma in the tech community when the initial program was announced. QED Investors said it has expanded its mental health initiative aimed at tackling addiction among entrepreneurs to its Spanish-language portfolio companies. Guess we’ll see about that.

real estate

TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

Natasha spent a good chunk of last week at the All Raise VC summit, an annual off-the-record event that brings together some of the best and brightest in the investment community. Things aren’t looking good for the model that once challenged the incumbency of SaaS. This week, we’re trying something new.

venture capital

WSJ - The Accelerators

JULY 2, 2015

Metrics matter most in Series B, or as the venture community likes to say: “There’s nothing like numbers to screw up a good story,” and render a promising startup unfinanceable. Remember the “buy low, sell high” advice they were supposed to teach you in business school?

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Some members of the “urgent care” community are intelligently rebranding their services as “convenient care.” Consumers come to an urgent care facility during an emergency, but the experience is so great, they come back for everyday healthcare needs.

health

TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

” And this line was the classic motivation for all incumbents buying fintechs: “Why not just bring it in to our platform and get it to customers as quickly as possible?”. It looks like incumbent banks and institutions are still struggling when it comes to offering tech-enabled financial services.

incumbents

TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

Crypto community slams ‘disastrous’ new amendment to Biden’s big infrastructure bill. Loverro went on to say that a common refrain that he hears with regards to anything crypto is “Why can’t [incumbent] just add that as a feature?” . Then there is the buy side, which includes both consumers and institutions.

data analysis

Y Combinator

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Community coordination to encourage whole-block electrification. Other considerations include market size, incumbent strength, founder fit with an enterprise-like sales cycle, and ability to create significantly better-electrified products faster than the incumbents can modify their existing lines and supply chains.

energy

OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

Because people don't love the incumbent right now. Remoteculture, online community for those building remote cultures, easy, right? Dharmesh: I would start a community for remoteculture.com. It's a community that's necessary at this moment in time that hasn't existed because it hasn't needed to, now it does.

frameworks

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 11, 2021

I’ve always thought the opening would be at the intersection of gaming, online communities, and social networks. So the existing incumbents are the defensive line. But what is cooler is that these NFT experiences are operating at the interaction of gaming, communities, and social nets. And there is running room.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

They incumbents might provide terrible products or services that you think you can better. I can’t tell you how incumbents will act and who else will choose to compete fiercely with us. Hashtags were organically created by the Twitter community the way that RT (retweets) were and OH (over heard) was and #FF (follow Friday), etc.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 6, 2022

DAOs bind the loose community of open-source software contributors through tokens. Open-source software powers every server and most software. Crypto empowers open-source projects to monetize their innovation in a way web2 never achieved. Tokens provide an ongoing financial link that aligns long-term incentives.

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