TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

For nearly all fintech startups, lending has long been the end game. Several startups including Slice, Jupiter, Uni and KreditBee have long used the PPI licenses to issue cards and then equip them with credit lines. Some banks have been employing the same strategy for like a decade!” ” the founder added.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

We see an emphasis on young founders (“40 Under 40”), innovative ideas and disruptive challenges to legacy brands, incumbent companies and “old” ways of thinking. One of the best strategies for tech companies that want to serve the older adult market is to focus your value proposition on empowering older adults.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 21, 2021

You are ready to launch and thinking about the right go-to-market strategies that will lead to quick and scalable growth ? —?a a critical juncture of your venture’s life cycle, as a majority of startups have only one chance to make a strong first impression. Winning big often means starting small.

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OnStartups

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Working on a startup? 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. And, responding to their actions will distract you from that whole disrupting thing you're trying to do.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 2, 2012

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. The tech-implementation barrier: Startups should leverage their nimbleness and focus to bring a better product to market faster.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

Zeller was founded last year by Ben Pfisterer, Square’s former Asia Pacific and Australia head, and Dominic Yap, the fintech’s former strategy and growth lead. Zeller, a fintech founded by Square alumni, raises $25M AUD Series A led by Lee Fixel’s Addition.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 14, 2021

Brazil’s banking system is a massive market, and one ill-served by incumbents. Just last week, this Brazilian credit card and banking fintech raised a $750 million round led by Berkshire Hathaway at a $30 billion valuation, becoming one of the most valuable startups in the world. Nubank is on its way to realizing that objective.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

Super.mx , an insurtech startup based in Mexico City, has raised $7.2 million seed round, which also saw capital from 500 Startups Mexico, Village Global, Anthemis and Broadhaven Ventures, among others. Unlike most insurtech startups in Latin America, Villarreal emphasizes that Super.mx million in a Series A round led by ALLVP.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The Hottest Startup Sectors In 2016 - published on January 3rd, this post reviewed the patterns of investment in startups, and in particular, the sectors where investors were increasing their investment the fastest. Does your startup have the right structure for the product it’s building?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 24, 2022

And on the distant horizon, TechCrunch Disrupt will return to San Francisco on October 18. Startups and VC. In drug-related news, a startup called Wondermed raised $4.6 Fortunately, there’s a startup for that. In other news, TechCrunch’s Summer Party yesterday was a major success — thanks to all who turned up!

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

Their investors call them disruptive innovators. As such, Campbell said her startup plans to launch these kits in fall 2021, partnering with several universities for a beta rollout. Leda Health outsources most of the tricky Ethereum software support to the blockchain startup Deqode.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

Last week, Paystand — a blockchain-enabled B2B payments startup — announced it had acquired Mexican fintech Yaydoo — creating a new unicorn in the resulting new entity. has a legacy, centralized financial infrastructure that needs to be disrupted and re-imagined by fintechs with blockchain technology. and Mexico. Today the U.S.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Startups often overlook market research, specifically the market-in approach, but it is a crucial component of a successful, sustainable growth strategy. In-depth market research and analysis is necessary for startups to identify opportunities, develop strategies to take advantage of those opportunities, and then execute.

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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. First, the competition slide communicates the startup’s worldview of their ecosystem, relays the key axes of differentiation in the market and summarizes the startup’s advantages.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 23, 2013

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. Companies like AirBnB, Uber, Path, and Axial are pursuing this strategy disrupting Craigslist, Facebook and LinkedIn.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

What’s your web3 strategy? It’s been on the lips of a growing number of investors on the hunt for disruptive opportunities blockchain-based technologies can offer. Blockchain is at its most powerfully disruptive when it supplies the missing link. More posts by this contributor. can repair the attention-driven digital economy.

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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. Lessons for Startups Bloomberg’s initial insight was to corner hard-to-access data and give it to customers in a usable format.

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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. Technology is the key to the transition to sustainability.

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

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

In a few days, Thiel and Masters will release a book version of these notes called Zero to One: Notes on Startups or How to Build the Future. I was given a copy at TechCrunch Disrupt. Every person curious about or in the world of startups should read it, because it contains so much original thought.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

Embedded finance — where financial services companies and others bring in different kinds of fintech technology by way of APIs to enhance their own offerings with more data and functionality — remains a growing opportunity, both to help fuel new business and to help incumbents get up to speed with their disruptors.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 20, 2015

And simultaneously, freemium marketing strategies blossomed. This go-to-market strategy benefits FSEMs in three important ways. Incumbents often can’t compete with free without cannibalizing their current business. FSEMs can be incredibly disruptive businesses.

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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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Israel’s startup ecosystem raised record amounts of funding and produced 19 IPOs in 2020, despite the pandemic. Subscribe to access all of our investor surveys, company profiles and other inside tech coverage for startups everywhere. This a great example of company that is disrupting a traditional market. Oh, and one more thing.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Food and beverage startup The Naked Market bagged $27.5 This portfolio approach is different because we are using a data-driven fast fail strategy,” CEO Fugman told TechCrunch. “We Fugman said a multibillion market like that “gets us excited to have this kind of landscape for disruption.”

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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. I run Revolution’s VC investments.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2022

A new startup is setting out to help companies build and harness communities around their products, enabling them to side-step multiple disparate tools and manage everything in a single platform. funds, including J&T Ventures, Credo Ventures, Mxv Capital, and Plug & Play Tech Center. Community meets product.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 17, 2013

Then came client-server, which also launched new winners at the expense of older incumbents. Most interestingly, new company wealth (pure play Internet companies) far exceeds “transitioned wealth” (incumbent companies transitioning their model successfully to the new platform). TripAdvisor and Yelp rule the day, not Frommers and Zagat.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 10, 2016

Displacement technologies compete with incumbents on the same buying parameters. Disruptive companies change the way a buyer thinks about solving their need. In order to win a user using this bottoms up strategy, these software companies pursued workflow value proposition. Most SaaS products today are displacers.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 8, 2017

Performance pricing is a challenging go to market strategy for one key reason: it cedes the startup’s pricing power to the customer. If the SaaS startup cannot continuously improve the performance for the customer, the customer is bound to churn. These are my observations from the evolution of that industry.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Jambo , a Congo-based startup building Africa’s web3 user acquisition portal through “learn, play, earn” and democratizing access to crypto-based income-generation opportunities, has raised $7.5 Experts say Africa is poised to be disrupted by web3 in a similar fashion that has seen Southeast Asia become one of the best markets for web3.

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Y Combinator

MAY 8, 2019

We both like doing business with startups and with small business owners and trying to turn small businesses into big businesses. He had started a couple companies and I had worked in a couple of startups and done pretty well, so, we kind of started on the journey on that project we did together at Sloan. We lost that battle.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 13, 2024

And then the way those modern data centers are built by the leading-edge companies now is they’re sort of built on day one with an integrated strategy for energy and for cooling. And, you know, Apple was a venture-backed startup, two kids in a garage in 1976, not that long ago. But we could. Where’s that coming from?

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