Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 1, 2013

What kinds of moves are the incumbents making and how they change the market? How might a startup disrupt this market? Pitch-it-myself test : I stop a few partners in the office and give them the pitch to test their reactions. At this point, I’m really interested and I’m trying to understand the investment risks better.

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VC startup pitching incumbents 41

Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 14, 2016

Inexpensive equity dollars enable capital-intensive companies to amass the warchest necessary to dethrone incumbents. The capital markets have boosted these types of startups, helping them raise huge amounts of capital at attractive prices, and disrupt massive markets. Crunchbase tallies $10.1B raised by Uber and $2.4B

real estate 40

real estate startup incumbents sustainability 40

TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2021

has closed a $6 million investment round led by RTP Global, along with participation from JamJar Investments. ” Cuckoo Internet closes seed funding to disrupt UK broadband market. Cuckoo Internet, which is aiming to be an insurgent startup in the broadband provider space in the U.K., Who’s funding privacy tech?

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investing investment incumbents startup 98

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. ” Let’s start with some basics. And they have. Innovation.

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real estate startup disruption incumbents 364

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. We believe the latter, in particular, will really disrupt the market. And every year, it falls flat.

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startup disruption innovation energy 89

TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

His pitch made perfect sense: create a biodegradable alternative to expanded polystyrene (EPS) foam using a material provided in abundance by nature. We seek innovation from everywhere and we know sometimes the newest ideas don’t necessarily come from the incumbents in the industry.” Both will join as advisors. Chitin King.

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ecology sustainability innovation pitching 99

TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Disrupt is turning 12 years old. And in the name of coming back bigger and better than ever, the Disrupt Startup Battlefield has grown by 10x. This year, we’re curating 200 companies for you to check out and meet for the first time in the Expo Hall, with the top 20 gracing the Disrupt stage to launch their wares.

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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? I could have GPT-4 create a business plan and come pitch to you. That doesn’t mean you’re going to invest. You ship fast, you move fast, you can disrupt yourself.

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incumbents creativity development technology 97

Y Combinator

MAY 8, 2019

We’d meet once or twice a week, and work on the idea, and pitch it to law firms. What was your pitch even like? What’s fascinating to me about my mornings is those six startups, and they are startups, are all very much part of my life and have completely disrupted the incumbents in those space.

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