culture incumbents VC 
This is going to be BIG.
MAY 13, 2019
Using the proliferation of newly GPS-enabled mobile devices to enable taxi hailing and beat out stagnant incumbent providers was always going to be a big win for consumers. There’s no reason why a culture needs to fall apart at the seams in a hypergrowth startup. Not only that, we have other portfolio companies to worry about.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 15, 2014
Since the majority of VC returns come from a small number of deals, “obvious” investments seldom return such incredible multiples. They point out perceived market risks, they might question the management team’s experience, they might worry about regulatory risk or incumbent competitive powers.
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Founders Coop
SEPTEMBER 30, 2024
But VC bubbles deflate slowly. 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. Will selling AI tools to incumbents prove more valuable than “full-stack” competitive attacks? So what’s a founder to do?
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.
TechCrunch
JULY 25, 2021
China’s e-commerce and industrial ecosystem is as different from the Western world as its culture. Incumbent giants therefore could lose a sizable chunk of market share if a company could just manage to weave together China’s manufacturing proficiency and agility with the modern tech startup philosophy of “moving fast and breaking stuff.”.
Haystack
DECEMBER 26, 2018
There are many reasons for that, such as private equity and crossover investors investing earlier, or the fact that LPs in VC funds are affected by public market swings and could, theoretically, hit some VC firms to feel the pinch. Much of this can trickle down into the startup ecosystem. Money has been coming into the U.S.
Ecosystem Builder Hub
MAY 21, 2021
Cultivating a culture and practice of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) has become a core principle for entrepreneurial ecosystem builders. 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. It’s not an afterthought.
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