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.

incumbents 87

incumbents peer-to-peer health opportunity 87

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.” .

entrepreneurs 77

entrepreneurs health disruption incumbents 77

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The Berlin-based startup — which rebranded from dashdash at the end of last year — closed a Series B round of $16 million, money that it is using to continue investing in its platform as well as in sales and marketing. Christian Reber has also invested in this round. COVID-19 is driving demand for low-code apps.

disruption 82

disruption incumbents board media 82

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? Then they come to us, we invest in them, and I join the board. ” Now you’re on this treadmill of continuing to invest and hiring people.

creativity 108

creativity incumbents startup investing 108

Haystack

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

There’s no need for me to mince words here: This is a huge, huge development. That’s a 9x return on investment for the region, which could’ve used the proceeds to improve infrastructure, services, and other things across the city. It is shocking, really. 3/ A powerful warning shot to technology brands.

incumbents 102

incumbents culture communities networking 102

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. Ron notes that the $10.2

health 102

health incumbents mix-use transportation 102

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. Go 1st, create a feedback-loop, build trust / rapport, and invest in the relationship. Your job is to act as a translator, a connector… take diligent notes and make sure that each milestone is documented and agreed upon. ??

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pitching consulting creativity construction 59

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).

incumbents 145

incumbents creativity development enablement 145

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.

accelerator 95

accelerator networking incumbents support 95

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. But one important detail was left out, as Fortune reported last week. Weekly News.

financing 83

financing finance enablement venture capital 83

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.

incumbents 127

incumbents accelerator venture capital financing 127

Y Combinator

MAY 1, 2019

30:00 – Investing in yourself. 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.

peer-to-peer 44

peer-to-peer advice creativity opportunity 44

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The Starling founder nearly ignored the message completely, but what followed was an offer not just to invest in Starling’s seed round but to do a mega-round released in tranches. Was that on purpose; you didn’t want to do too much personal development and [instead] stick with the business side of the story?

founder 77

founder entrepreneurship entrepreneurs incumbents 77

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]

incumbents 102

incumbents creativity development collaboration 102

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? They could do it and grow their business.

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consulting advice founder peer-to-peer 51