TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

Signaling that investments in the supply chain sector remain robust, Pando , a startup developing fulfillment management technologies, today announced that it raised $30 million in a Series B round, bringing its total raised to $45 million. Customers can customize the tools and apps or build their own using Pando’s APIs.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

It requires the technical and financial know-how to develop and implement a new backbone in a highly regulated industry,” said Strange, who joined Vesta’s board as part of the financing. ” “This is very contrary to the incumbents,” Yu told TechCrunch. “We

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 30, 2021

In the long run, software platforms have the potential to be much larger than traditional incumbents. Upon digging deeper, the founders realized that incumbent providers were overly complex, and more manual than necessary. Incumbents relied primarily on sales teams, which Gusto suspected actually limited their reach among SMBs.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

Vaidya said Leda Health’s Ethereum-powered mobile app gives survivors the choice to document their own accounts, using blockchain technology for time-stamping evidence collected in the kit, which puts power back in survivors’ hands. . We’ve also documented potential investors engaging with social media posts calling for us to be jailed.” .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 30, 2022

Also, the company has reportedly disabled sharing of Google documents internally and they’ve blocked access to all companywide dashboards – likely because business has probably suffered dramatically. Those employees had to sign NDAs and place phones in paper bags, and there were even metal detectors to make sure no one had recording devices.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

But the ICC, the nonprofit organization that develops the model code used or adopted for building regulations by all 50 states, claims UpCodes impacts its ability to make revenue and continue authoring new code. And in all those cases, big old incumbents like ICC will try to find ways to slow down their new competitors.”

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

So rather than trying to compete in the relational database market, over the past decade, many database startups focused on alternative architectures such as document-centric databases (like MongoDB), key-value stores (like Redis) and graph databases (like Neo4J). When life gives you Mongos, make MongoDB. Image Credits : Nasdaq, Inc.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Stephen Nundy, the partner at Lakestar who led its investment, describes the army of users taking up no-code tools as “citizen developers.” However, it does point to an opportunity for incumbents to disrupt their disruptors. COVID-19 is driving demand for low-code apps. Image: Rows.

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Haystack

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

There’s no need for me to mince words here: This is a huge, huge development. To be fair, the NYC MTA, among others, needs massive upgrades, especially on well-document, troubled lines. It is shocking, really. I believe this will be talked about for months, which in today’s news cycle is saying something.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 24, 2022

Stay tuned as my colleagues and I parse the developments. As Frederic writes, Amazon trained the system — which currently supports Java, JavaScript and Python — on billions of lines of publicly available open source code and its own codebase, as well as publicly available documentation and code on public forums.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

By platform shift, I mean, why has the value accrued to the incumbents and why hasn’t there been a new set of AI-native companies that have come up and displaced them? The second is a little more subtle, which is that the behavior developed around these things is iterative. I’ll give you another example from Instabase.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2023

I am grateful and fortunate that I could solicit input on this article from several people, including Theresia Gouw and Mark Kraynak; a few of my partners at Acrew; Ed Zimmerman and Meredith Beuchaw from the law firm Lowenstein; Shan Aggarwal, VP of corporate development, Coinbase; and Art Levy, chief strategy officer at Brex.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Data annotation, or the process of adding labels to images, text, audio and other forms of sample data, is typically a key step in developing AI systems. Dataloop develops software and services for automating aspects of data prep, aiming to shave time off of the AI system development process. We call it the ‘primary bias.’

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Two factors often come down to how Q&A will be shared and/or if we are the incumbent. As you get ready for the next phase in the RFP Process, make sure you have documented the following: Comprehension: The RFP is clearly understood by you and your team. discovery, definition, design, development & deployment).

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Before the 2010s, most studios developed their own internal engines to build their games. Now, almost all games are built using the third party engines shown below, excluding some of the largest AAA budget games that still develop on their own (e.g. EA’s Frostbite, Infinity Ward Engine, etc).

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 25, 2017

Determining how to compete is a critical part of developing a startup idea. In most software categories, incumbents exist and for start up to win share, the company must wrest budget of way from incumbents. From its earliest days, Google has spared no expense to develop the best infrastructure in the world.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 20, 2013

Incumbents and startups alike are duking it out. The incumbents, Microsoft and Apple, leverage their own advantages heavily. Google entered the fray seeking to displace Office with a web based document creation suite whose by-product was an online file system that evolved into Drive.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 20, 2015

This threshold can be based on number of people using the product (Expensify), number of documents signed in a month (HelloSign), or additional product features needed by users (Yammer). Incumbents often can’t compete with free without cannibalizing their current business.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

A number of vendors — both startups and well-established players — are actively developing and selling access to AI inferencing chips. And on the incumbent side, Google’s competing for dominance with its tensor processing units (TPUs) while Amazon’s betting on Inferentia.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Look at Docusign, as one shining example — a company many folks thought would be a $1-2B outcome for a feature (e-signatures) transformed into a $10B+ document management platform. Here’s why: 1/ Pro-sumer Trend Has Legs In Enterprise: The freemium pricing model ushered in a new wave of business applications and services.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2022

In another action the filing goes on to detail, plaintiff investors in a prior business venture claim they did not receive required accounting documentation and that Garg misappropriated funds that should have been distributed to them. In the latest development on this theme, a U.K. For too long, many people in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Instead, by both camps, the media were sold a line designed to avoid a “he said, she said” scenario, creating the clear space needed for each bank to develop its own narrative. Was that on purpose; you didn’t want to do too much personal development and [instead] stick with the business side of the story?

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Y Combinator

MAY 1, 2019

I’ve definitely tried to draw out this narrative into a bunch of videos, but the basic story is that a friend of mine, who’s still a really great friend of mine who lives in New York turned me on to, he’s an Android developer, or mobile developer at large now. He’s just doing everything.

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Y Combinator

APRIL 26, 2021

Even with $125K from YC and $1–2M in venture funding, a startup’s credit limit is still likely to tap out at $20K from an incumbent creditor—which is not nearly enough to cover software, marketing, and other expenses. Stripe’s launch in 2009 made it possible for startups to easily collect payments online via developer-friendly APIs.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Dylan Field, founder and CEO of Figma, looks at the relationship between designers, developers, and AI, in conversation with a16z’s David George. [00:36] 4:03] Jambot demo [7:02] Human vs. AI creativity [13:37] Applying AI to design [14:31] Startups vs. incumbents Will AI replace designers? 00:36] Will AI replace designers? [4:03]

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Y Combinator

MAY 8, 2019

Brian Halligan [08:26] – that didn’t have a bunch of developers running around. Kevin Hale [12:29] – Was there any feature that you guys developed in the early days that ended up being this killer feature that all of a sudden changed the direction? I’m not a product person, not a developer.

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