OnStartups

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Have a 800 pound gorilla you're trying to disrupt? But here's a tip: Don't talk about disrupting them. The first rule of disruption is: You do not talk about disruption. In just about all cases, to successfully disrupt a large incumbent, your best case scenario is that they completely ignore you and what you're doing.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Innovator’s Dilemma – In his seminal book, “The Innovator’s Dilemma,&# Clay Christensen talks about why industry leaders almost always fail to act when “disruptive change&# enters their business. Incumbents can’t react. So why on Earth should Netflix split into two businesses?

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

Their investors call them disruptive innovators. I believe survivors should have the right to gather information about their own bodies on their own terms, and entrepreneurs should have the right to try their hand at innovation,” Lin said. “In In my view, legislative efforts to ban the product have been excessively restrictive.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

Some banks have been employing the same strategy for like a decade!” Fintech startups are convinced that banks have lobbied the RBI to reach this decision, employing the age-old tactic where incumbents cry foul and rely on the regulator to rescue the day. But until some change or clarity arrives, large disruptions are expected.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The first post sketched the idea and the second filled in the details of one theory on how startups will disrupt their incumbents, and particularly the dominant systems of record. It distills pricing intricacies into three strategies, and helps us clearly articulate the pricing strategy of the business.

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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. The MP3 is a perfect case study of Innovator’s Dilemma. incumbents simply did not have the right teams to adapt to the changing environment.

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

While the petal diagram is a great way of describing an ecosystem or a go-to-market strategy, I don’t think it’s a great way to show a competitive landscape because petal diagrams don’t communicate the startup’s unique way of competing in the market.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 28, 2024

For new entrants looking to take advantage of the advent of LLMs and disrupt the status quo by going upstream of these incumbents, we’ve done a deep dive into Bloomberg, Morningstar, and Verisk’s stories. What is unique about their strategy is how they leveraged LPs to push the industry toward adopting their offerings.

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 14, 2019

Today’s digital e-commerce successes aren’t merely developing strategies to expand beyond borders as quickly as possible – they are a new generation of firms that are “born online” and later build out physical spaces as they grow. This is an excerpt from OurCrowd’s Q2 Innovation Insider, download it here. About the Author.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

There are many ways of spinning up a startup, but it takes a particularly brave set of founders to take on a deeply entrenched industry with a small number of incumbents who have the market all sown up. Yes, innovations are happening, but core speaker technology rarely moves in a way that could be described as truly innovative.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The emergence of generative AI, cloud computing, and new spatial platforms is poised to disrupt 3D creation end-to-end. Of course, this vision came to reality through the games industry (which is often the tip of the spear for technological innovations). What is a Next Generation 3D Creation Engine?

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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.”

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

We look at huge markets where there are large incumbents that might not be incented to innovate or react to what they perceive as an insurgent. It allows him the opportunity to do what he does best, finding and motivating entrepreneurs then thinking through market strategy. Both AOL and Time Warner had existing VC operations.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

At Qumra, we get excited about companies that disrupt traditional industries while doing good and improving quality of life. Our portfolio includes some great examples such as Fiverr that has disrupted the labor market by unlocking the global talent pool, or Talkspace, which is providing access to therapy to all.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 13, 2024

In this fireside chat from the American Dynamism Summit , a16z Cofounder and General Partner Marc Andreessen sits down with economist, podcaster, and polymath Tyler Cowen to discuss the state of innovation in America, from recent AI advances to growing support for nuclear power. And so I would put that in there. Not all, but most.

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