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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incumbents creativity development enablement 145

TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

We’ll have the new Discovery Stage featuring in-depth demos and speaker Q&As, roundtables, networking, breakout sessions and more. The social network is dedicated exclusively to women in professional leadership positions, charging thousands for a private membership (if you’re lucky enough to get accepted). Yes, Chief.

disruption 81

disruption pitching VC ventures 81

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. If I was to guess, the demographics of people pitching me are reflective of two things—what my own network looks like and what my portfolio looks like. First is network bias.

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advice pitching venture capital VC 476

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.

peer-to-peer 102

peer-to-peer incumbents finance financing 102

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.,” Image Credits: Mos.

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incumbents startup communities consulting 99

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Today, Fuzzy announced $44 million in growth funding to expand its digital pet care network of veterinary professionals to alleviate some of the strain on the industry and make care accessible and affordable to all. In addition, 25% of the capital was raised from underrepresented communities, Bhettay said. Fuzzy live chat via its app.

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capital incumbents education health 98

Haystack

JUNE 5, 2018

3/ “Value Is In The Eye Of The Network” Bean-counters may scoff at acquisitions like GitHub as poorly run businesses that aren’t (yet) profitable, but in the world of 10-figure M&A, the exits seem to be largely a function of network defensibility and uniqueness. 4/ “Readjust Your Comps” With GitHub price at $7.5B

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incumbents leadership culture networking 71

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. It’s eyes in the sky, where it’s cold, perhaps even icy?

incumbents 89

incumbents board enablement startup 89

TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

Execs from the two startups say the combined company will have processed over $5 billion in payments and built a network of over 500,000 connected businesses by creating B2B DeFi payment networks in both the U.S. and Mexico. Specifically, it said, in Q2 2022, “ VC investment in fintech companies fell 17.8%

real estate 106

real estate VC mix-use opportunity 106

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.

peer-to-peer 40

peer-to-peer incumbents finance financing 40

abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Narrow Networks — Narrow networks are an interesting response to the above market prices that the large hospitals and groups are pushing on the broader market. Obviously, if narrow networks increase in popularity, more and more market share shifts to providers that are willing to respond to competitive market-based price demands.

health 59

health hospitality networking mix-use 59

Y Combinator

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Community coordination to encourage whole-block electrification. Smarter EV charging for charging networks, fleets, and residential use cases that is price, carbon intensity, and excess solar awareness. Alternative energy storage systems (e.g. thermal storage). battery discharge measured at the inverter) rather than counterfactuals.

energy 98

energy startup transportation construction 98

OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

What you should do, since now you're out of Twitch, you should do a professional network that's powered by the blockchain that, and I'm going to say this as kindly. Because people don't love the incumbent right now. One is the crypto social network. I'm going to give you my pitch, Shaan. that people love. Shaan: That's insane.

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frameworks culture advice networking 135

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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incumbents communities networking opportunity 363

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

They incumbents might provide terrible products or services that you think you can better. If you look at Hulu and said, “the networks will never enable a strong competitor to broadcast TV you’d need to put your head in the sand. We have no clue where the community will help take Twitter next.

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entrepreneurs incumbents VC disruption 330

Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 6, 2022

” Internet hegemons have decimated entire spaces: social networks, advertising technology, video streaming and rental, paid email, infrastructure. Their economies of scale and network effects mount significant barriers to competition. A social network rewards its most valuable users in the coin of the realm.

incumbents 106

incumbents innovation networking enablement 106

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Community-led growth (CLG) has emerged as a popular mechanism for driving business, as companies strive to foster an ecosystem of fervent users that draws in new customers organically, serves as a support network for millions and bangs a company’s drum completely off its own volition. Eagle Eye app. I mage Credits: Crowd.dev.

communities 82

communities development mix-use incumbents 82

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2022

A new startup is setting out to help companies build and harness communities around their products, enabling them to side-step multiple disparate tools and manage everything in a single platform. Community meets product. As TechCrunch wrote last year, in many ways, the chief community officer is the new chief marketing officer.

communities 82

communities mix-use incumbents disruption 82

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

There are dozens, maybe even hundreds, of companies playing in the cross-border remittances field, from incumbents like Western Union through a myriad of tech players, some of which have gone public and some of which remain privately held.

incumbents 94

incumbents communities capital networking 94

Haystack

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

In that time, the network scale juggernauts like Facebook, Apple, and Google became so successful, the cost of living increases down there are rising incredibly fast. Another mayor or governor should swoop in, cut a new deal, and start selling the benefits of a potential 5-10x investment could have on their community.

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incumbents culture communities networking 102

TechCrunch

JANUARY 30, 2022

But there is an even better vision of softPOS acceptance that goes beyond Apple’s: one that is built on an open platform, where all devices and all card networks are welcome, payment data is truly secured to the highest standards, and platforms are easily scalable. The meteor is about to hit. And we’ll all be better off for it.

incumbents 136

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 21, 2021

They can accrue huge value by reducing friction and aggregating supply and demand — particularly because they have the ability to build network effects and economies of scale. 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.,

incumbents 73

incumbents transportation networking mix-use 73

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Founded in 2010, Razor’s Edge funds multistage startups with both commercial and government customers but specializes in ventures that “[help] national security community [members] solve difficult technology problems and advance critical missions,” in its own words. maintain “technological superiority.”

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ventures investment investing startup 54

TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

Namely the work that goes into training neural networks. Let’s see if the startup can tackle the public incumbent, itself a former startup. And the Equity team chatted through how to – and how not to – buy community. The company argues that tools in the market today for the work are often easy to use but inefficient.

incumbents 81

incumbents VC networking entrepreneurs 81

Y Combinator

MAY 8, 2019

We were a content machine, and I still think of HubSpot as a little bit of, like, it’s code, there’s software, there’s content, all that content out there, and there’s a community around it. That’s sort of how HubSpot works underdeath the covers. That doesn’t have to happen anymore.

consulting 56

consulting advice founder peer-to-peer 56

This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 14, 2013

Instead of running a series of interviews of everyone in the NYC tech community, I'm going to use proxies--media lists, suggestions from others. You're in a different network of peers and they're getting some invites that you don't. Of course, you get invites that they don't either, but that's not exactly bothersome to you.

peer-to-peer 332

peer-to-peer incumbents opportunity media 332

abovethecrowd.com

JULY 17, 2013

Then came client-server, which also launched new winners at the expense of older incumbents. Most interestingly, new company wealth (pure play Internet companies) far exceeds “transitioned wealth” (incumbent companies transitioning their model successfully to the new platform). TripAdvisor and Yelp rule the day, not Frommers and Zagat.

incumbents 96

incumbents real estate disruption development 96

Continuations

AUGUST 31, 2024

How much moderation should there be on social networks? Incumbents in power, whether companies, governments, or religions, don’t like change. The following applies to open social networks such as X/Twitter. First, banning human network participants entirely should be hard for a network operator and even for government.

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networking incumbents communities energy 58