Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

So when Sam Rosen came to me with the idea of disrupting storage with a product that is priced cheaper than existing incumbents and he could build a product that is a better service I was intrigued. Incumbent Strengths & Weaknesses. So if you are then I have to ask myself, “What are the incumbents going to do when you grow?”

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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.” As I wrote in April 2023 , “What would an AI Safe Harbor look like?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

The competition intensified further last year when American incumbents Beyond Meat and Eat Just entered China. Omoigui advocates for founders to develop their own All-22 tape — a tool used by professional football coaches that allows the viewer to see all 22 players on the field at the same time.

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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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Launched in 2020, Solana gained worldwide renown for being one of the fastest blockchains with a rapidly growing developer ecosystem. They are founders that are not only building very interesting companies but have taken a forward approach toward making noise on social media. Speeding Up Crypto. with Anatoly Yakovenko (Solana).

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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. Ezra Klein : Hello and welcome to the Ezra Klein Show, a podcast on Vox Media Podcast Network. The more we learned, the more we realized how much we did not really understand.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Once this new service became popular then the media companies could control the rules of distribution & advertising. I have made many of my arguments in a blog post I wrote on The Innovator’s Dilemma , a concept that is critical for both innovators & incumbents to understand.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 30, 2023

The company’s aim is to enable space access at greatly reduced risk, cost, and environmental impact compared to incumbent solutions. The funding will be used to develop Equatorial Space Systems’s Dorado commercial-sounding rocket family. The round was also joined by SEEDS Capital and Masik Enterprises.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 12, 2019

Brody is an award-winning entrepreneur, venture capitalist, bestselling author and two-time Emmy-nominated media visionary. Reinvent your incumbent enterprise before you’re disrupted by another, or you risk becoming obsolete. At GLC, he will address the rapid pace of change, innovation and disruption facing us all?and

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Andreessen Horowitz

JUNE 3, 2024

Marketing is particularly well suited for adopting generative AI because it is an iterative, creative, and dynamic practice that relies on the types of media — texts, images, video — that have driven LLM development. This is one of the reasons why many of the first B2B GenAI use cases were for marketing!) via Captions ).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

When much of the shopping shifted online during the global pandemic, startups developing software and other products to aid the transition began to garner attention from venture capital firms. million in a seed round of funding as it develops a one-on-one shopping experience, transforming any cooler or cabinet into a smart grab-and-go.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

“Our goal is to empower both developers and creators while ensuring that our platform is legally and ethically sound,” Yair Adato, the co-founder of Bria, told TechCrunch in an email interview. During Adato’s Ph.D. “I realized that there’s a real business use case for this,” Adato said.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

Some of the funds will also go into product development, hiring talent in engineering and product teams and executing partnerships with football clubs. . Eksab stated that it intends to use this investment to scale its user base across MENA and Africa. Founder and CEO Aly Mahmoud started Eksab in 2018. and Europe.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 15, 2022

In a statement, the startup said it the fresh capital will enable it to continue building out a leadership team and to invest in product and technology development. Ayoconnect’s vision is to drive financial inclusion for Indonesian consumers and SMEs working in conjunction with regulators and incumbent banks to facilitate this.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

For example, Crowdz has developed what the startup describes as “proprietary” risk scoring that gives banks, financial institutions and DeFi lenders “access to attractive risk-adjusted, diversified returns, while helping to plug the SME finance gap.”. “We are a tech play underneath,” Johnston explains.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

In its own words, Mountain View-based Vareto is developing a new platform for FP&A (financial planning & analysis) teams with the goal of “building the future of financial planning.”. While at the social media giant, Orekhova says she built Facebook’s “first-ever” data science team within FP&A. Talk about validation.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 28, 2012

Many of the promising marketing and media innovations of the past six years, daily deals, subscription ecommerce, social gaming and social media, have been struggling. It depends on the incumbents successfully developing new revenue models that can be either syndicated to or replicated by new startups.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 19, 2013

But if you’re looking to start a company in the sector, you’ll need to amass proprietary data or develop a market place with unassailable liquidity to vie successfully in the market. The DSP (demand side platform) uses algorithms to inform an advertiser’s media purchases; i.e., which websites and mobile apps will perform best.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

We’ve also documented potential investors engaging with social media posts calling for us to be jailed.” . Indeed, rape kits donated by another private manufacturer were reportedly used in April 2020 in Monterey County, California, under a temporary process developed for the pandemic. “I

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 18, 2017

This isn’t the middleware of the early 2000s, which was focused on helping developers build software. The incumbents acquire successful point solutions and combine them with an existing platform, to capture more revenue and reinforce their competitive advantage. And HR/recruiting.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Incumbents can’t react. The reason that incumbents can’t react is that their revenue and defensibility are continued by serving the high-end of the market for which it would take too much time & money for any competitors to effectively challenge. If you haven’t read his book please do yourself a favor and buy it.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

“It used to be that if you were a fintech startup or, for lack of a better term, a digitally native financial services business, you might be eyeing an acquisition from an incumbent in the industry,” Ryan Lawler writes. “But lately, fintech upstarts are the ones doing the acquiring.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Ben Rubin explains why the Web3 era of social media will help everybody get paid. In a world where customers are more loyal to value than branding and 18-month roadmaps are the norm, startups that develop solid competitive plans have an advantage, says Sudheesh Nair, CEO of business intelligence company ThoughtSpot. yourprotagonist.

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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.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2022

Well before Better.com garnered negative media coverage due to the manner in which CEO and co-founder Vishal Garg callously laid off 900 employees, the controversial executive made headlines for being the target of multiple lawsuits by PIMCO, Goldman Sachs and other investors involving entities he controlled. startup called Token.io

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

During our conversation, Boden dispelled one media myth (which my own sources confirm): There was never any kind of gagging order or confidentiality agreement prohibiting parties from talking about the Starling-Monzo split. Starling Bank raises another £60M from existing backers. I think that this is a business book.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

As drivers we look out for them, as pedestrians we might be annoyed if they steer in our way but the riders themselves have developed better norms as happens in all forms of transportation. 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.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Now, another new company has entered the community-led growth fray with a slightly different approach to the existing players, one focused on developer communities and with open source at its core. We’re the first going in the developer space.” ” Crowd.dev analytics. ” Crowd.dev analytics. I mage Credits: Crowd.dev.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 31, 2023

Qoala’s goal is to democratize insurance by using an omnichannel presence and new product development. Access to insurance has been a key element in promoting financial inclusion, as it contributes to a country’s balanced and sustainable economic growth and development. The post Indonesia’s Qoala scores $7.5m

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

There’s scores of competition, including incumbents like OpenAI and Anthropic. Prakash previously founded social media search platform Topsy, which was acquired in 2013 by Apple, where he later became a senior director. ” He has a point — insofar as incumbents are feeling the pressure, at least.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2023

From Axios: “Retail trading platform Robinhood is launching an independent media brand called Sherwood that will be led by veteran tech editor and media entrepreneur Joshua Topolsky. Snafus can happen even when incumbents and fintechs partner. The relationship between incumbents and upstarts has long been a complicated one.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 30, 2022

Now that Garg is back, he is apparently paranoid about things being leaked to the media and according to one employee, he and the rest of the execs still there “have put everything on lockdown.”. It would not be a stretch to say that the top talent and hundreds from every department have fled in the wake of Zoomgate.”. But that’s not all.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

However, it differentiated itself by committing to payments on social media platforms, which Nigerian digital bank Carbon was interested in when it acquired the startup in 2019. Amplify was another payment platform that launched during that period. Adeyemi launched the fintech with Olamide Sobowale and Gbekeloluwa Olufotebi.

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Haystack

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

There’s no need for me to mince words here: This is a huge, huge development. Given how polarizing “the stakes” can be and how critical persuasion is to winning, it is now incumbent upon politicians to improve their own dealmaking skills and to effectively communicate their positions repeatedly to their constituents.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2022

QuickVid, which Habib, a self-taught developer who previously worked at Meta on Facebook Live and video infrastructure, built in a matter of weeks, launched on December 27. Copilot was co-developed by OpenAI and GitHub, which Microsoft owns.) Going after video. See: [link].

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 21, 2021

Another example is Stone, a Brazilian fin-tech unicorn started in 2012, which disrupted the incumbents’ sales strategy by creating a hub-and-spoke model that deployed a passionate salesforce of “Stone Warriors” throughout the country. Test different channels, with the ultimate goal of finding one on which to focus?—?a

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The “community” that performs this task can be anything from social media influencers and review sites, to dedicated forums such as Stack Overflow, Reddit, Slack, or Facebook Groups.

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