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The Future of Hospitality is Here

Revolution

Image courtesy of Mint House Real estate lies at the core of our everyday lives?—?it Yet, technology adoption within the real estate community as a means to fundamentally disrupt how physical assets behave and how transactions occur was lagging up until the last couple of years.

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What To Do When Your Competitor Gets Funded?

Both Sides of the Table

We will have two well-funded companies educating the market on why this market opportunity for the $24 billion US storage market is ripe for disruption. And our competitors are not really each other but the incumbent businesses that have 99.9% ” In summary: The competitors are the incumbents.

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Here is Why Non-Obvious Startup Ideas Can Yield the Largest Results

Both Sides of the Table

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. Today’s asset – real estate – is tomorrow’s albatross.

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End-to-end operators are the next generation of consumer business

TechCrunch

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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MakeSpace Raises an Additional $17.5 million and Unveils Strategy to Make Public Storage the Next Blockbuster Video

Both Sides of the Table

Fragmented markets can be a great target for disruption. Incumbents became increasingly annoyed with our successes in the country’s largest market – NYC – that they started even taking out ads against us. It’s no wonder incumbents don’t want us to exist. Public Storage does about $2.4 Little old us.

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Startup playbook: reverse-engineering Clay Christens’s market disruptions

Tomasz Tunguz

In this month’s HBR, Clay Christensen and Maxwell Wessell published an article targeted to the CEOs of large companies on how to prevent disruption to their businesses. This is particularly true when incumbents are already competing with each other with commodity goods and use price as a differentiator.

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Varo’s bank charter milestone, more corporate cards and BNPL under a microscope

TechCrunch

This is particularly interesting because many of the existing corporate card players often point to Concur as an incumbent that they are trying to replace. Residential real estate marketplace Sundae last week conducted its second layoff this year. These companies, of course, join a plethora of others in the U.S. xoxoxo Mary Ann.