TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Newly appointed CEO Bart Omlo says that the proceeds from Kontent’s first external investment will be put toward expanding the company’s marketing and sales teams, opening a new office in New York and supporting product development. The incumbent solutions were designed for on-premise, monolithic architecture.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Unlike CMOs who have all sorts of media optimization platforms, content creation tools and social listening software, and CTOs who have countless frameworks, repositories, CI and code-enhancement collaboration tools, CFOs still rely mostly on spreadsheets and ERPs – and in some companies even fax machines.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Skio is taking on incumbents like ReCharge Payments, which too has built subscription software for e-commerce brands and was valued at $2.1 It claims to use modern frameworks that allow it to “build much quicker” than existing offerings. billion earlier this year after a $227 million raise. . Image Credits: Skio.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2022

Godot, for the uninitiated, is a cross-platform game engine first released under an open source license back in 2014, though its initial development pre-dates that by several years. It’s basically a software framework that developers can use and reuse without having to redesign the wheel with each new game they create.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 19, 2016

A new premium entrant might enter the market, changing the market dynamics, forcing incumbents to respond and change their 4Ps. There are many different factors to consider, but a framework like the 4Ps can help prioritize the discussion. The iPhone 6S was released after Samsung’s phablet success, for example.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Intel recently partnered with Penn Medicine to develop a brain tumor–classifying system using federated learning, while a group of major pharma companies, including Novartis and Merck, built a federated learning platform to accelerate drug discovery. Tech giants, including Nvidia (via Clara ), offer federated learning as a service.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

payments landscape is currently dominated by legacy and new-age incumbents, and we know competition would ultimately deliver better outcomes for consumers. Close partnership with our merchants to develop solutions together is of the utmost importance to us. These events underscore the need for a clear regulatory framework.

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Unvalidated Learnings

JUNE 8, 2017

As such, the history of the MP3 gives an excellent framework to anticipate how disruptive 10x innovations impact a market, and who the winners and losers of such breakthroughs will be. incumbents simply did not have the right teams to adapt to the changing environment. The MP3 is a perfect case study of Innovator’s Dilemma.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

Does the ability to make users collective owners in the platform’s success give you an advantage over web2 incumbents? Will access to a shared, open, data layer make your offering more attractive than if you hoard the data in a proprietary database? Can you bootstrap one side (or both sides) of a marketplace through in-protocol incentives?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

But it feels like we have written far less about fintechs that exist solely to help the incumbents better compete with fintechs. So he set about creating digital assets, or a broader connectivity framework, that would allow Extend to help banks scale capabilities across their whole portfolio “and eventually all the way down to the consumer.”.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Understand the buyer’s roadmap, their build vs. buy framework, and their best alternative Once you’ve identified the buyer and, ideally, a champion for whom you’re solving a problem, the next step is to understand the buyer’s process. The level of investment scales based on product development approach. Transparency is critical.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Most growth-stage CEOs I work with know how to tell if they’re efficiently allocating capital in every part of their budget with one glaring exception: research and development (R&D). The problem with the 70–20–10 rule is that product is so multifaceted that it defies a generalizable rule or framework.

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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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Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Start with something like, “For the next 12 months any developer of AI models would be protected from legal liability so long as they abide by certain evolving standards.” Observability : Auditable, but not public, frameworks for measuring ‘quality’ of results. As I wrote in April 2023 , “What would an AI Safe Harbor look like?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

To create a framework for founders who are charting a path from $1 million to $25 million in annual revenue, Arthur Nobel, a principal at Knight Capital, conducted 47 interviews with founders and investors who’ve taken startups from Series A to C. 3 questions startups must answer before taking on their largest competitors.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

The antitrust bills, if passed, could significantly restrict the ability of Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and other tech incumbents to acquire and punish rivals to boost their own products and services. Carbon cap and trade for developing world could spur massive investments — if it works. billion valuation. Seen on TechCrunch+.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 22, 2014

” In his book Antifragile, Taleb expands this theory to all of human development. Despite those flaws, both theories are incredibly useful as frameworks to describe industry dynamics. Disruption will happen in certain sectors and long-incumbent technologies will continue to prevail in others. Same with ceramic plates.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Launched in 2020, Solana gained worldwide renown for being one of the fastest blockchains with a rapidly growing developer ecosystem. It seems to be true accessibility in a framework that works with the existing U.S. Why is it important to consider accessibly when developing your products and services as a startup?

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 13, 2024

AI, I think, so far is living up to that framework. You know, this AI is a use case for developing and deploying that kind of power. You know, most of our economy is dominated by, you know, incumbent institutions that, you know, have no intention, I don’t think, of changing or evolving unless they’re forced to.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Eventually, however, we gained our footing and developed a mental model for the industry and a framework for where opportunities do exist. So rather than working on software, they were developing web pages and probably holding events, teaching you how you can collect this free money. healthcare system is confusing and complex.

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