TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

They were brought back together by the pandemic to start the e-commerce enablement company. Additionally, Melonn works with a range of transportation providers, including incumbents such as FedEx or DHL and last-mile startups, to reduce shipping times and costs. .

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enablement startup incumbents transportation 97

TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

“Challenger” startups in banking and insurance have upended their industries, and picked up significant business, by building more customer-friendly tools and services — more personalized, easier to access and usually competitively priced — than those typically provided by their bigger, incumbent rivals.

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incumbents consulting SaaS disruption 106

Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 28, 2021

Should you price your SaaS per seat or per use? The platform fee establishes a stable relationship and the usage pricing enables the customer to scale up or down as a function of their traffic which might vary throughout the year. Sometimes, entering the market with a different pricing model disrupts incumbents.

frameworks 106

frameworks strategy incumbents startup 106

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Bhettay wasn’t planning to raise additional funds so soon after the Series B, but said accelerated growth in the business enabled the company to hire more, check off more of the to-do list items over the past eight months and provided a unique opportunity to lean in on partnerships and expand financial plans.

capital 98

capital incumbents education health 98

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Ascend is offering point-of-sale financing to enable insurance brokers to break up those commercial payments into monthly installments. Our platform not only reduces the friction with payments by enabling customers to pay how they want to pay, but also helps carriers sell more insurance.”. Ascend app.

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financing finance incumbents disruption 83

Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 21, 2021

Here are 6 tactical guidelines drawn from my work with 15+ global tech upstarts in D2C, B2B marketplaces, SaaS for SMBs, logistics, cybersecurity, and digital health over the last decade: 1. Winning big often means starting small. Putting it all together Quality beats quantity when it comes to launching.

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startup strategy SaaS incumbents 89

TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

Last week, Paystand — a blockchain-enabled B2B payments startup — announced it had acquired Mexican fintech Yaydoo — creating a new unicorn in the resulting new entity. has a legacy, centralized financial infrastructure that needs to be disrupted and re-imagined by fintechs with blockchain technology. and Mexico. and Mexico.

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real estate VC mix-use opportunity 106