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Leonard Brody: The Great Rewrite

Entrepreneurs' Organization

At GLC, he will address the rapid pace of change, innovation and disruption facing us all?and This massive scale of disruption has understandably left organizations on shaky footing , struggling to engage consumers and employees alike and stay relevant. Master digital disruption with digital reinvention. and what to do about it.

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FintechOS nabs $60M for a low-code approach to modernizing legacy banking and insurance services

TechCrunch

“Challenger” startups in banking and insurance have upended their industries, and picked up significant business, by building more customer-friendly tools and services — more personalized, easier to access and usually competitively priced — than those typically provided by their bigger, incumbent rivals.

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Prezent.ai secures $20M to gamify deck presentations

TechCrunch

When it comes to presentation creation, PowerPoint and Keynote remain the de facto tools by incumbent advantage. But this hasn’t stopped startups from trying to disrupt the status quo. “Alternatives like management consulting and design agencies are expensive and inaccessible to the vast majority of business professionals.”

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Make no bones about it, Fuzzy expands reach into pet care market with capital infusion

TechCrunch

The company has facilitated more than 1 million consultations to date and with it, amassed data and operation expertise to be able to expand delivery care at scale. 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.

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Breaking Down a Typical VC/Startup Diligence Process

Tomasz Tunguz

What kinds of moves are the incumbents making and how they change the market? How might a startup disrupt this market? Legal diligence : I’m interested in learning how well formed the company is, if there are skeletons in the closet like fired co-founders or large debts or consultants who are owed shares or pending lawsuits.

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HubSpot CEO and Cofounder Brian Halligan with Wufoo Cofounder Kevin Hale

Y Combinator

14:20 – At what point did they shift entirely away from consulting? What we didn’t want to fall into was the trap of building something that was a consulting company. Craig Cannon [14:42] – At what point did it feel like you really shifted to a startup from a consulting company? 16:00 – SEO is underrated.