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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

The key purpose of being end-to-end is to deliver an even better value proposition to consumers relative to incumbent alternatives. The end-to-end approach makes the most sense when disrupting very large markets. At their core, these companies are facilitators, matching consumer demand with existing supply of a product or service.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

. “The funding will be used to accelerate scaling of the engineering and business teams globally, and to continue investing in both hardware and software innovation,” founder and CEO Krishna Rangasayee told TechCrunch in an email interview.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

In a nutshell, Geopagos feels it is in the ideal position of being able to serve as the software enabler that can retrofit incumbents like large banks and launch the enablers like fintechs. Geopagos, in Riverwood’s view, powers such innovation — in turn, helping its clients “drive digital inclusion in payments all across the region.”.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

“As many businesses are coming out of the pandemic with a new affinity for hybrid and remote work, modern technologies that can best enable the secure and efficient delivery and management of digital workspaces are in high demand.” . “The market timing for this investment is ideal,” he added.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

When it comes to growing that proportion, however, m obile money — based on simpler technology and with an easier onboarding process — wins out, and it is set to capture more market share faster than traditional banking in the region. Neobanking, based on mobile technology too, falls somewhere in the middle of the two). .

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 22, 2014

Jill LePore’s New Yorker polemic “ The Disruption Machine ” attempts to debunk the incredibly popular Innovator’s Dilemma, a theory written by HBS professor Clayton Christensen. The first challenge with both the Lindy Effect and the Innovator’s Dilemma is neither are predictive, as Taleb says above.

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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

JULY 7, 2021

But Simon argues that the companies that sell such cards were founded decades ago with very little innovation since. Coast’s goal is to use technology to provide fleet business owners and their employees payments products that are intuitive and easy to use.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

“It’s the classic innovator’s dilemma.” This is a huge business, typified by incumbent behemoths like Lloyd’s of London, who in theory mitigate the risk insurance companies face when they get the formula wrong. “The industry hasn’t updated,” he said. That can be a truly life changing thing.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

Their investors call them disruptive innovators. Vaidya said Leda Health’s Ethereum-powered mobile app gives survivors the choice to document their own accounts, using blockchain technology for time-stamping evidence collected in the kit, which puts power back in survivors’ hands. . We’re not in the business of proving consent.

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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. In doing so, each built the beginnings of what are now category-defining businesses.

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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. Whether that means integrating Google Pay or working with startups to develop technologies we don’t have the capacity to work on ourselves.”.

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Unvalidated Learnings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

“Businesses that disrupt/create huge markets with a non-replicable product offering a must-have service , which gets better the more people use it.” The product has to offer a unique and proprietary selection (be it a feature, a technology, an inventory or a network of people). What’s yours? ”?—?below

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2015

Try to imagine if you *didn’t* already know Amazon and the company walking into VC meetings telling people they were going to disrupt the selling of all goods starting with books but then extending into electronics, apparel, toys and so forth. Innovation. How valuable are these legacy businesses? And they have.

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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

Unity, Unreal, Roblox and Godot – the predominant 3D engines – are all 15+ year old technologies architected for a different era of computing. The emergence of generative AI, cloud computing, and new spatial platforms is poised to disrupt 3D creation end-to-end. 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. The funds — coming from a single investor, Motive Partners — values Backbase at €2.5 billion ($2.6 billion).

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 9, 2016

Which are the ripest areas for startups to disrupt using machine learning? It’s not that we won’t see innovation in the consumer world. But to get there requires building an enormous customer base with a proprietary data set, that none of the incumbents can replicate or proxy.

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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

But ClearBank’s existence underscores one of the untold truths amid all of that innovation: many of these new services have been built on top of legacy infrastructure. faster than those incumbents, and continue to expand it to more services in its home market, as well as take them abroad.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

The company started several years ago with a mission to build alternative payment technologies to improve how cross-border payments were made, and cryptocurrency was indeed part of that premise. If the name “Token” got you wondering how and if this startup is somehow involved in cryptocurrency, you would be both wrong and right.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

Named for the city where it started, Santa Cruz, Cruz Foam’s innovation is a patented process for this surplus chitin where shells go in one end and out the other comes a lightweight, durable sheet of foam with many of the most desirable aspects of EPS. .” People are literally paying someone else to take this stuff.

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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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Disrupt is turning 12 years old. If it were a human, it would be addicted to technology (which it is) and starting to get an attitude (again, yes). And in the name of coming back bigger and better than ever, the Disrupt Startup Battlefield has grown by 10x. Disrupt Stage Agenda. Nothing drives tech innovation like sex.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Here’s who we interviewed: Clara Brenner , co-founder and managing partner, Urban Innovation Fund. Natalia Quintero and Rachel Haot , Transit Innovation Partnership/Transit Tech Lab. Clara Brenner, co-founder and managing partner, Urban Innovation Fund. But there’s a lot more; they even see tailwinds for eVTOLs.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

4:03] Jambot demo [7:02] Human vs. AI creativity [13:37] Applying AI to design [14:31] Startups vs. incumbents Will AI replace designers? ” If you look at every technological shift or platform shift so far, it’s resulted in more things to design. You ship fast, you move fast, you can disrupt yourself.

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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 sort of the question is, who benefits more?

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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 should be looking at China for the real innovations now. I like healthcare a lot.

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