Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 12, 2019

While technology may be the catalyst of the rewrite, this is a deeply human story: How are executives and entrepreneurs, consultants and thought leaders metabolizing dynamic technological advancement to create game-changing innovation for their employees and their customers? Along with new competition comes new opportunity.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

MAY 21, 2021

It is incumbent upon those of us working to build vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystems to put inclusion front and center, at the heart of everything we do. Ongoing third-party consultation. What does it say when we tell them their ideas and dreams are unworthy because they don’t fit into some narrow model of a startup founder?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

But Ochoa argues that Lasso solves many of the setup problems associated with incumbent RPA solutions while remaining license-free. “Lasso makes it … cheaper and faster to build any robotic process automation using natural language on Chrome.” ” How well Lasso works in practice remains to be seen.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

Moallemi says incumbents have a couple of key challenges that Mosaic hopes to overcome. First is onboarding, which can take months for some of these companies as consultants integrate the software into a company’s workflow. There are a handful of companies like publicly-traded Anaplan that have entered this space in the last decade.

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financing finance incumbents consulting 98

propel(x)

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Due diligence on a startup can be divided into the following two components: Industry due diligence , which refers to the big picture and involves understanding the industry, who are the incumbent players in the market, who are the competitors, what competitive advantage the startup has, what their chances of success might be, and similar research.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Consultant: You are one of many and until you get to the final round, your primary job is to survive and advance through each round. Two factors often come down to how Q&A will be shared and/or if we are the incumbent. When it’s a consultant pitch, think through how you can win through RFI?—?RFP?—?Chemistry?—?Finals.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Most of the new ERPs are just doing the same as the incumbents but in the cloud. Holded developed the first ERP we have seen without modules, long implementation times or consultants needed, they’ve really changed the whole experience.”. The ERP startup space is heating up.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

The competition intensified further last year when American incumbents Beyond Meat and Eat Just entered China. Moussouris, who runs consultancy firm Luta Security, now advises companies and governments on how to talk to hackers and what they need to do to build and improve their vulnerability disclosure programs.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

And in all those cases, big old incumbents like ICC will try to find ways to slow down their new competitors.” The brothers wanted to create a more efficient way to reference building codes, which are so complex that many architecture and building firms hire code consultants to help them navigate regulations.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 1, 2013

What kinds of moves are the incumbents making and how they change the 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. How concentrated is the market?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2010

There’s a famous line about consultants that clients love to repeat, “consultants take your watch and then tell you the time.&#. I used to work for Andersen Consulting (for > 8 years) – mostly building computer systems for large companies in the fixed telecoms, mobile and Internet sectors.

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peer-to-peer consulting startup board 288

TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2021

Once the pair dug deeper, as management consultants are wont to do, they say they also discovered “interesting behavioural trends,” particularly when it comes to young and affluent people. On banking competitors, Ikigai’s founders argue that existing incumbents and challengers both have “significant” failings.

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Continuations

MAY 29, 2020

By reducing the network effect lock in of the incumbents. That is what stagnation looks like and we know it all too well from many other industries as well as some prior moments in information technology. In other words, require Twitter, Facebook, YouTube etc. to be fully programmable in order to have their liability limited.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

And according to a new report from Salient Advisory, a global healthcare consulting firm, this is the segment where the most impressive growth has occurred for Africa’s healthcare in the last 12 months. However, a particular segment has achieved scale faster within the past year. And of course, funding in health tech is generally low.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

While incumbents have pioneered various enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to digitize these processes, companies would still get four to five different software platforms to complete multiple tasks. They are electronic yet manual processes that make their work very inefficient. More than 3,000 users also utilize its software.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

Mironov came from the finance world, having spent several years as a private equity analyst, associate and consultant. And of course incumbent payroll providers like Square offer their own solutions. “Greg and I founded Wingspan in 2019 to create the system of record and payroll platform for independent contractors.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2022

” Several startups — and incumbents , for that matter — are developing AI assistant technologies for clinical settings. For example, there’s Suki , which raised $20 million to create a voice assistant for doctors, and Bot MD , an AI-based chatbot for doctors.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

For example, subscribers have access to consultations with Spanish-speaking doctors “whenever they need it,” discounts of 10%-85% on medication and 10%-50% on dental services. I think that’s a big moat around any of the incumbents,” he said. “In

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

There is also the £1 million in debt that Boden racked up employing management consultant firms to help her with the bank license application process. This is not my memoir, right. You know, people at the end of their career write memoirs. I’m at the beginning.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 15, 2022

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. Carbon Accounting Software The biggest category is carbon accounting software.

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Y Combinator

MAY 8, 2019

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.

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