American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 13, 2025

Awardees under Round Two of the Pilot Clean Tech Demonstration Program are developing technologies that will address the carbon footprint of concrete, divert packaging waste from landfills, and the infrastructure needed to support the transition to electric vehicles, exemplifying New Jerseys standing as a hub of innovation. PureLi Inc.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2021

Creative use of the country’s networked manufacturing and logistics hubs make mass production both cheap and easy. Tang was talking about how the age of building infrastructure for e-commerce in China was largely over; it was now time to create brands that could take advantage of the advanced distribution network that had been laid out.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

After developing a network of telehealth, diagnostics and pharmacies for consumers, digital health company Truepill is targeting healthcare incumbents like health payers, providers and employer groups. We often worry about access, but Truepill is in an interesting spot,” he added. “We

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 20, 2024

01:07] Social networks as compliment to AI [03:59] Poe: bringing AI to the masses [05:51] The future of AI is multi-model and multimodal [08:11] Is the model the product? [11:31] And meanwhile, I just watched social networking start to boom. Find more content from our AI Revolution series on www.a16z.com/AIRevolution.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

As a result, we’ve seen both the rise of open-source networks leading to startups (a la Gitlab and Hashicorp, among others), as well as Docusign- and Slack-inspired freemium models designed to grow within groups at companies.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

T he startup uses blockchain with the aim of creating a richer network effect of data that allows credit bureaus and others to predict the creditworthiness of people who are not in the traditional credit bureau system. We’re exploring standing up unique information sharing networks.”.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Community-led growth (CLG) has emerged as a popular mechanism for driving business, as companies strive to foster an ecosystem of fervent users that draws in new customers organically, serves as a support network for millions and bangs a company’s drum completely off its own volition. We’re the first going in the developer space.”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 12, 2019

Reinvent your incumbent enterprise before you’re disrupted by another, or you risk becoming obsolete. Recognizing the ongoing value that loyalty brings, companies are rewiring every business function, from product development to their own staffing. Along with new competition comes new opportunity. and “how can we sell it?”

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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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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

And save from mPharma, which has a network of Mutti pharmacies and recently raised $35 million to build out its telehealth and e-commerce offerings, funding has been few and far between for B2B distribution healthtech startups. Online pharmacy regulations have been launched in Nigeria and Ghana and are in development in Kenya and Uganda.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Put simply, Melon is developing tech and fulfillment infrastructure — or the backend — to enable small and medium e-commerce merchants to “easily” sell and grow across multiple channels such as Shopify, Instagram and Amazon, and then deliver almost anywhere in the region.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Today, Fuzzy announced $44 million in growth funding to expand its digital pet care network of veterinary professionals to alleviate some of the strain on the industry and make care accessible and affordable to all. The San Francisco-based company previously raised $18 million in a Series B round in March. Fuzzy live chat via its app.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

If the items are further afield, Tile taps into its broader finding network consisting of everyone who has the app installed on their phone and other access points. Through this network, Tile is able to automatically and anonymously communicate the lost item’s location back to its owner through their own Tile app.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

The firm says its intent is to go beyond term sheets to issuing bespoke “Strategy Sheets,” which outline how Vesey Ventures aims to leverage its network “to act as a company’s first business development team.” And that’s ultimately the insight that we built a thesis on,” said Fitzgerald. “In Want more fintech news in your inbox?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

Challenger banks continue to make significant waves in the world of finance, with smaller outfits luring customers away from incumbents by providing an easier way for them to not only engage with basic banking services, but to tap into a wave of technology that brings more personalization and often better deals into the equation. billion ($1.8

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The startup will continue to look for ways to expand its partner network of hardware and software companies across the globe, Luke Wilson, founder and CEO of ManageXR told TechCrunch. Its competitors include incumbent mobile device management companies, which build similar tools for mobile phones and laptops, and some device manufacturers.

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2022

Founded by Tokopedia veteran Vincent Tjendra , Astro plans to spend its funding proceeds on user acquisition, product development and hiring more staff to add to its current team of 200. The startup is competing with incumbents like Sayurbox, HappyFresh and TaniHub to win over users.

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Haystack

JUNE 5, 2018

Not yet profitable but invaluable to developers worldwide, the decade-old company bootstrapped, differentiated from formidable competitors GitLab and Atlassian’s BitBucket, weathered leadership upheavals, and eventually ingested lots of venture capital which helped them weather the challenges they faced.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

MAY 21, 2021

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. This approach has developed a portfolio that is 46% women-led (4.5x Develop program-specific advisory boards from under-represented backgrounds. It’s not an afterthought.

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Y Combinator

MAY 6, 2020

Beyond the social networks we already know and use, we are finding new ways to integrate social into our online lives. PDD has one of the most powerful network effects in the world ( Reed’s law : The value of a group-forming network is proportional to number and the ease with which groups form within it. Card Program.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Cross-border remittances — when people living and working abroad send money back home to friends and family — continues to be a huge part of how those living in developing countries, off the global financial grid, can be helped. on 2020, as parts of the global economy started to claw back growth after a tough 2020 due to Covid-19.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 30, 2022

But there is an even better vision of softPOS acceptance that goes beyond Apple’s: one that is built on an open platform, where all devices and all card networks are welcome, payment data is truly secured to the highest standards, and platforms are easily scalable. In this vision, merchants own their own data. The meteor is about to hit.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

If you can map every oasis in a desert, you’ve created a transportation network. With plans to raise a $25 million fund and more than $15 million already invested, PsyMed Ventures focuses on early-stage startups developing psychedelic therapeutics. Gogoro’s public debut could supercharge EV battery swapping across the globe.

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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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Haystack

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

There’s no need for me to mince words here: This is a huge, huge development. In that time, the network scale juggernauts like Facebook, Apple, and Google became so successful, the cost of living increases down there are rising incredibly fast. 5/ Network-scale businesses often have more power and leverage over governments.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The plan will be to continue to support and grow its wider business building e-commerce tools for all kinds of larger companies, but in particular Spryker plans to use this tranche of funding to double down specifically on the B2B opportunity, building more agile e-commerce storefronts and in some cases also developing marketplaces around that.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2023

Snafus can happen even when incumbents and fintechs partner. On outage tracker DownDetector.com, irate customers reported missing funds and unexpected negative balances due to problems with the digital payment network.” Chief corporate development and strategy officer Greg Orenstein will move into its CFO seat.”

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 21, 2021

If you are a problem insider, interview people from your personal network and ask these open questions among others: How much time and/or money are they are losing due to existing inefficiencies? These early adopters play a critical role, helping you sharpen your value proposition and spread the word. How to find them?

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 18, 2023

Quilt has developed a highly efficient electric heat pump system that is controlled through a first-of-its-kind integrated software platform. However, most heat pump systems today are more difficult to use than their more mature fossil incumbents. We’re developing heat pumps that are better than any HVAC system of any kind.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2023

However, this complexity is hidden behind a simple software development kit, which is what matters to merchants most,” Shoykhet said. Nacha is the organization that manages the development and governance of the ACH network.)

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

That capability never existed before, and as a result the delta of the new experience vs. the incumbent experience (dialing restaurants one by one) is extremely high. At oDesk, the platform enables the planning, development, and transfer of code from the supplier to the purchaser. Network Effects.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

We’re now seeing a new development where businesses want to offer different products and financial services beyond just payments,” Adeyemi told TechCrunch over a call. “We The CEO also pointed out how Anchor has created a network effect with its service where the more platforms it onboards, the stronger its infrastructure and support system.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Barclays had applied for the contract through its network of Eagle Labs incubators , some of which have physical locations, but most do not. We can’t hand the support to the tech ecosystem to an incumbent bank! Today, Tech Nation’s work represents a £15 return on every £1 invested by the UK Government.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 9, 2016

Facebook’s network effects of it social network, in combination with its strategic acquisitions of other fast-growing social networks like Instagram and WhatsApp, reinforce its natural monopoly. We are just beginning to see the advent of predictive lead scoring tools for sales development representatives.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

Execs from the two startups say the combined company will have processed over $5 billion in payments and built a network of over 500,000 connected businesses by creating B2B DeFi payment networks in both the U.S. and Mexico. Specifically, it said, in Q2 2022, “ VC investment in fintech companies fell 17.8%

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The next wave of supply-chain innovation will be driven by startups that help incumbents win. “There is starting to be a real groundswell of startups attacking the hardware engineering space, but we all have to interconnect and work together in the same way that software development tools do.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

In this environment, most CISOs are experiencing “vendor overload,” which means small players that lack a robust network and large marketing budgets can’t participate in the same sales channels as incumbents. Develop new products. H1 2022 cybersecurity product-led growth market map. Be 10x better. “If

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