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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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. I do the same with my wife.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Reber knows a thing or two about software disrupting legacy productivity software — he is the co-founder and CEO of presentation software startup Pitch and the former CEO and founder of Microsoft-acquired Wunderlist — and notably he is joining Rows’ Advisory Board along with the investment. ” release, he added.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2021

Other individual investors in the round included former executives of Monzo and Stripe, Cuckoo’s pitch is that it has a simple broadband offering, suppling a single 67 Mb/s fibre deal on a monthly rolling contract with “no hidden fees,” it says. ” Cuckoo Internet closes seed funding to disrupt UK broadband market.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

Entrepreneurs saw this as an opportunity to disrupt incumbents, and soon there were lofty claims that everything about the industry was about to change. Many like to refute the underlying disruption by pointing to public valuations of insurtech firms, some of which are down as much as 85%-90%.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 14, 2021

Brazil’s banking system is a massive market, and one ill-served by incumbents. McCarthy, who spent significant time in Brazil growing up and is trilingual in English, Spanish and Portuguese, has been covering the LatAm and Miami ecosystems for TechCrunch with an eye to the disruption underway in these interconnected regions.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

This, along with the platform’s emphasis on no-code capabilities, differentiates Pando from incumbents like SAP, Oracle, Blue Yonder and E2Open, Jayakrishnan asserts. But Pando has a compelling sales pitch, judging by its momentum. The result of those major disruptions? billion in 2019.

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Steven Blank wrote yesterday about a novel way of depicting a startup’s competitive landscape in a pitch deck, called a petal diagram. Third, the slide conveys the dynamics within the ecosystem: who is partnered with whom; which incumbents are looking to partner/acquire vs go it alone, etc.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 23, 2013

I hear this refrain more and more in pitches. It’s the company that pursues an incumbent with faster, better or cheaper solution and in particular a solution that cannibalizes the incumbent’s business model typically because of a lower cost structure. But being the last mover isn’t always advantageous. When Last Mover Works.

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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

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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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Most immediately, Verdon says it allowed several million card holders to continue to operate their cards, “and customers could remain in business with minimal disruption” Railsbank is buying Wirecard Card Solutions, the UK arm of the disgraced fintech. and Europe and helps protect the reputation of the fintech industry.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

But Amy Spurling, the CEO of Compt, makes the case that incumbent solutions are overly reliant on vendor marketplaces or benefits cards, which limit the ways in which employees can use their perks. She pitches Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Compt as the answer. ” Image Credits: Compt.

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