Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 13, 2024

You know, what it is, is you basically feed, essentially, ideally, all known human-generated information into a machine, and then you let it basically build a giant matrix of numbers and basically correlate everything. They generally don’t seek to disrupt, or seek to create, or seek to invent. So, for a whole bunch of reasons.

energy 95

energy education technology capital 95

abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Our firm has had the good fortune to invest in many two-sided networks that used information aggregation, supplier aggregation, and user generated content to attract and inform consumers and resultantly disrupt and change different industries. We also discovered what we believe is a large and investible trend/theme.

health 43

health VC hospitality disruption 43

Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 12, 2019

At GLC, he will address the rapid pace of change, innovation and disruption facing us all?and This massive scale of disruption has understandably left organizations on shaky footing , struggling to engage consumers and employees alike and stay relevant. Master digital disruption with digital reinvention. and what to do about it.

disruption 130

disruption incumbents leadership innovation 130

Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

2 Incumbent banks miss the mark in two crucial areas: The banking experience has not evolved to match modern consumer. Outperforming incumbents with modern experience and digital infrastructure. Monzo has also been able to move faster than incumbents because of its forward-looking approach to building banking infrastructure.

peer-to-peer 102

peer-to-peer incumbents financing finance 102

TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

Larger banks and other financial service providers are getting a lot more serious when it comes to competing with upstarts that are disrupting their businesses with fresher approaches and newer technologies. We want to be closer to companies’ larger digital transformation programs.”

incumbents 78

incumbents leadership disruption strategy 78

Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 9, 2016

Which are the ripest areas for startups to disrupt using machine learning? Google and Facebook run first party ads on their core websites, and use that information to power marketplace and also run an ad network. Novel algorithms are increasingly making their way into the public domain in the form of open-source libraries.

disruption 40

disruption incumbents networking innovation 40

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Experts say Africa is poised to be disrupted by web3 in a similar fashion that has seen Southeast Asia become one of the best markets for web3. Many web2 incumbents or even web3 are having a $100-200 user acquisition costs so we can lower that by order of magnitude by directly incentivizing the end-user.”. million in seed funding.

education 96

education incumbents mix-use media 96

TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

Their investors call them disruptive innovators. Nurses and police have some degree of experience and training on what to ask, where to follow up, what information is important. That is information the general public doesn’t have. Detractors like North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein call them “ dirty scammers. ”

entrepreneurs 77

entrepreneurs health disruption incumbents 77

Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

2 Incumbent banks miss the mark in two crucial areas: The banking experience has not evolved to match modern consumer expectations. Monzo attacked incumbent models by creating an entirely app-based experience where customers could open a checking account from their phone for free. Traditional banks have not been able to keep pace.

peer-to-peer 40

peer-to-peer incumbents financing finance 40

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 22, 2011

When you think about the great achievement of the Internet in aiding content, commerce & communication they include: Large scales of connected people & information never seem before in humanity. Unprecedented transparency of information. How does the incumbent respond? How do existing incumbents compete with that?

incumbents 386

incumbents startup networking disruption 386

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

At TechCrunch Disrupt, Houseparty founder Ben Rubin emphasized decentralization as Web3’s central feature. individuals give money and personal data to network operators in exchange for access to information. “In We have many more Disrupt recaps to come in the next few days, so stay tuned. In today’s Web 2.0,

finance 74

finance financing venture capital disruption 74

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

We always say that great opportunities are composed of a world-class team addressing a big & disruptive market opportunity. They incumbents might provide terrible products or services that you think you can better. I can’t tell you how incumbents will act and who else will choose to compete fiercely with us.

entrepreneurs 330

entrepreneurs incumbents VC disruption 330

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

This year we’re in > 100+ cities and 100+ campuses and we’re operational with street teams, better software, better bikes and a more informed ridership. 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.

transportation 250

transportation incumbents disruption financing 250

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

“How we’ve disrupted our space in South Africa, we see an opportunity over there. With Mobiz, small and medium businesses such as a coffee shop can quickly know the particular type of coffee 100+ customers like because of the information gathered from templates used on the platform. currently active on the platform.

incumbents 90

incumbents disruption opportunity enablement 90

TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2022

Besides incumbent staffing agencies, Deng acknowledges that there are several startups with business models similar to Clipboard’s, like NurseDash, CareRev and Nomad Health, which focuses on travel nurses. “[W]hat [the] software does well [is] lowers barriers to information. “American society is aging.

health 97

health hospitality incumbents opportunity 97

OurCrowd

AUGUST 14, 2019

While incumbent competitor Mattress Firm began a process of consolidation and subsequently filed for bankruptcy in 2018, Casper announced it would be opening 200 retail locations across the US. Everything we do needs to be done for the customer to remove friction,” said ASOS’s Chief Information Officer Cliff Cohen in a 2018 Wired interview.

sustainability 51

sustainability incumbents technology strategy 51

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

.” Communication, and making it more accurate and reflective of the situation at hand, is something of a fixation for Manning: prior to Kettle, he had been the CEO of Ushahidi , the crowdsourced information startup. “As a homeowner, if my home burns down I’ll get its value back. That can be a truly life changing thing.”

incumbents 79

incumbents capital disruption technology 79

TechCrunch

JUNE 24, 2022

And on the distant horizon, TechCrunch Disrupt will return to San Francisco on October 18. I’ll bet there’s a large enough backlog to keep you occupied — and, more importantly, informed! Some affected founders are pushing the narrative that incumbent banks lobbied the RBI to reach a decision favorable to them.

health 102

health incumbents mix-use transportation 102

Y Combinator

MAY 8, 2019

Or, what I would do is show up at a sales call, and I’d put your company and Y Combinator, and then put in, whatever, 500 startups, MassChallenge, and I would use that as information. I feel like all those industries are being disrupted dramatically by people who are just better at customer experience, a step function better.

consulting 56

consulting advice founder peer-to-peer 56

Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

But the ability of large language models to extract insights from unstructured information changes this architecture : data repositories like data lakes are becoming essential parts of modern SaaS stacks. Historically, software-as-a-service (SaaS) has been built on databases with structured data, as you might find in an Excel spreadsheet.

incumbents 124

incumbents SaaS disruption support 124

StartupNation

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Relying on data to inform your product development, go-to-market and even marketing strategies is the opposite of the product-out approach. And if there’s not, they have information about what the market does need, and they can pivot in that direction before it’s too late. How to conduct market research. Direct competitors.

startup 116

startup strategy incumbents disruption 116

Y Combinator

APRIL 26, 2021

Even with $125K from YC and $1–2M in venture funding, a startup’s credit limit is still likely to tap out at $20K from an incumbent creditor—which is not nearly enough to cover software, marketing, and other expenses. incumbent offerings which only offered end-of-month reconciliation). The incumbent system involves three key “stacks.”

incumbents 126

incumbents financing finance enablement 126

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Their experiences informed Devtron’s design, which Ghildiyal describes as “DevOps in a box,” with tools that provide audit logs and metrics showing the state of an organization’s DevOps maturity.

capital 73

capital incumbents enablement disruption 73

Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 10, 2016

Displacement technologies compete with incumbents on the same buying parameters. Disruptive companies change the way a buyer thinks about solving their need. A CRM is the canonical source of sales information; the ERP system is the canonical source of a company’s financial information.

SaaS 40

SaaS peer-to-peer incumbents disruption 40

Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 20, 2015

Incumbents often can’t compete with free without cannibalizing their current business. FSEMs software captures information about the user and often, other key data like company size, activity and growth rates, which can be used to inform a market place. FSEMs can be incredibly disruptive businesses.

SaaS 40

SaaS enablement incumbents startup 40