Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

A cultural gulf has opened up between the realms I call brains and brawn. Others may call this dichotomy digital versus physical, the disruptor mindset versus the incumbent mindset, start-up world versus Fortune 500, or tech culture versus industrial culture.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Unity, Unreal, Roblox and Godot – the predominant 3D engines – are all 15+ year old technologies architected for a different era of computing. From the age-old realms created in myths to the digital domains we traverse today in video games, the fidelity of these worlds has never been more immersive nor culturally impactful.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

We have seen 20 creator led learning platforms across “preK to Gray” learning in addition to incumbents like Teachable and very few have an ability to build a moat in my view. In FOW, increased recognition that reskilling and upskilling is a business imperative, company culture matters for competitiveness, increased focus on DEI.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

Part 4: The consequences of scaling up sneaker culture. Digging into the Alkami Technology IPO. Alkami Technology joins a list that includes Coinbase’s impending direct listing and Robinhood’s expected IPO. Alkami Technology joins a list that includes Coinbase’s impending direct listing and Robinhood’s expected IPO.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

SaaS models and cloud technologies have eliminated some of the barriers for Israeli companies and enable companies to quickly set up and set up a proof of concept. Any area that needs to compete both with incumbents and also a set of already successful “new age” companies that made the first step of meaningful disruption.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 13, 2024

Marc: Yeah, so there’s a great kind of breakdown on adoption of new technology that the science fiction author, Douglas Adams, wrote about years ago. He says any new technology is received differently by three different groups of people. What’s the most surprising way in which it will be different? But we could.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2021

In many cases, hiring managers expect applicants to be fully trained on all the technologies their organization currently uses. We dug into the how and why of its new investment and riffed on what going remote-first has done for the company, as well as its ability to attract culture-aligned and more diverse talent.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

So if Internet and mobile technologies can be used to change real estate or transportation, why not healthcare? ” It’s worth noting that our primary focus was on technologies that aided and improved primary care, which is about half of the U.S. Simply put, there is amble room for improvement. Why will that happen?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2016

I have to believe the founder is cost-focused, mission-driven and aligned on cultural values to me, which mostly relates to integrity and how to treat other people. At heart I’m still a tech nerd from childhood and I love to see how technology is changing business and society. Innovator’s Dilemma.

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Dream It

MAY 13, 2020

However, if you’re already an incumbent at a large health system with a compelling Covid-19 use case, then you’re in a really good spot. Startups with direct Covid-19 solutions are still experiencing sales challenges due to friction around technology integration, physician workflow, and culture adoption. “

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

With massive annual technology budgets and scaled distribution, the largest FIs are the ideal end-buyers. This is because FIs have long relied on painstaking manual operational processes to accomplish their goals, eschewing technology for human labor.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Monzo’s culture of customer obsession allowed it to use the crisis to thoughtfully build a beloved consumer and SMB product that has changed personal finance in the UK. 2 Incumbent banks miss the mark in two crucial areas: The banking experience has not evolved to match modern consumer. This did not happen by magic. expectations.

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Haystack

JUNE 5, 2018

With nearly 30M users, over 85M code repositories, and marquee technology customers like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Apple, among others, GitHub’s ubiquity made it invaluable. As expected, many developers didn’t love the news that some of their work would be concentrated in the hands of a tech incumbent.

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Hunter Walk

MAY 17, 2024

As a leader of teams within larger organizations, I was able to build phenomenal teams in terms of both delivery and culture. I did this in part by defining my team’s culture as being outside-the-norm; I worked hard to make sure that my team felt special in the context of the larger organization.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

More recently, this trend has shifted a bit within the Bay Area, which today’s giants like Uber, Airbnb, and Stripe being built in San Francisco proper while incumbents down south have begun scooping up premium commercial real estate in the city. Over the past two years, however, I’ve felt that something is out of balance.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

Claire also opened up about how she has grown as a leader, learned to listen to feedback from her team, and improved the culture at Aunt Flow. It’s Monday, which means that Alex and Grace were back as a team to cover the biggest, boldest and baddest technology news. Up next on Found Live is WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Monzo’s culture of customer obsession allowed it to use the crisis to thoughtfully build a beloved consumer and SMB product that has changed personal finance in the UK. 2 Incumbent banks miss the mark in two crucial areas: The banking experience has not evolved to match modern consumer expectations. This did not happen by magic.

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WSJ - The Accelerators

JULY 2, 2015

Your Series B round, however, requires traction or, in fewer situations, some new telling of the tale (a superstar has joined the team, you’ve uncovered a new application for the technology, the startup has inked a massive strategic deal, etc.). Remember the “buy low, sell high” advice they were supposed to teach you in business school?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

Vouch hopes to leverage Level’s expertise in developing underwriting technologies to underwrite and support complex insurance products. ” 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?”. pre-seed .

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Positioning the product (with the enterprise buyer in mind) Frame the problem you’re trying to solve In a recent conversation with Daniel Barchi, CIO of CommonSpirit Health, he compared AI software purchasing to buying a car with lane assist technology. Each organization’s culture around these questions is different.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Many of the top hurdles to deployment today are “soft cost” and involve generating trust and taking friction out of the process of selling and adopting these technologies in a wide variety of non-standard applications. New heat-pump technology and deployment. Solve specific headaches around rented (vs owned) EVs.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Sentiment analysis systems — both academic and commercial — have been shown to exhibit bias along race, age , cultural, ethnic, and gender lines. “In most of our deals, we are competing against the disbelief that technology can actually achieve the resolution rates our customers are seeing.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

So for a long time, it was brand, culture, and what I call boldness, which is is the organization taking on enough risk? So when I had culture on my list, I spent 300 hours in the culture code deck at HubSpot. I'm going to do everything I can to learn everything they can to try and get culture to be a thing at HubSpot.

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Founders Coop

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

After half a generation of overhyped trivialities, Large Language Models have reminded us what real technological breakthroughs look like. LLMs are compute and energy hogs, and renting state of the art bundles of compute and energy by the millisecond is what tech incumbents do best. So what’s a founder to do?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

It become such a quick part of popular culture that Jim Carrey rode a Bird in an opening segment of the Jimmy Kimmel show (hilarious if you haven’t seen it). You can’t simply drop a bunch of electric scooters in a market and hope to compete with the data and software advantages of the incumbents. none of which are funny or tolerable.

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Haystack

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

3/ A powerful warning shot to technology brands. Those opponents have a sense of what comes with the “big tech” bundle — changes to the neighborhood, changes to rent, changes to the culture they have today. To be fair, the NYC MTA, among others, needs massive upgrades, especially on well-document, troubled lines.

incumbents

Haystack

MAY 4, 2019

This is all happening, of course, to a region that doesn’t have a modern public transportation system.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

Some have blamed the lack of insurance coverage on the country’s culture but Super.mx It’s not a cultural problem,” Villarreal said. Moreover, the insurance incumbents have been unable to address a growing and underserved market.”. “People in Latin America buy a lot less insurance than they do in the U.S.,

health

TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

Previously relegated to underground communities and rave culture, drugs like ketamine, MDMA (commonly known as ecstasy) and psilocybin are now being studied to develop therapies to treat everything from PTSD to cluster headaches. “Today, there are 400+ ketamine clinics in the U.S.,

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Haystack

JUNE 29, 2018

One analyst estimated $15b+ of incumbent market value was wiped out. Whether it’s angling for multi-billion dollar franchises in faraway places like India, or competing for a small startup in Boston — the gloves are off and founders in the right position stand to benefit.

incumbents

Haystack

JUNE 13, 2019

Products like Looker already have this mindset baked in, and on the heels of Google’s Anthos announcement, we are moving toward a world where even the incumbent cloud giants will allow their users to (somewhat) seamlessly move between different cloud environments. I expect to see more blockbuster M&A in this broad category.

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

First, proprietary technology. Most disruptive companies are better, faster, and cheaper versions of incumbents’ products. Instead of disrupting, founders should be focused on creating new markets and technologies where none exist. (p. In other words, founders should build monopolies. (p. Fourth, a brand.

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Continuations

MAY 29, 2020

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. By reducing the network effect lock in of the incumbents. Similarly here I believe you can eventually accomplish all three if you build a culture of criticism.

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