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

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Bhettay is also seeing the larger incumbents focus here, as well as marketing dollars, which he considers validation that the market is shifting to the digitalization of pet care. He called Bhettay “an energetic and smart entrepreneur” who is building a strong team to go after a space that is ripe for disruption.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

Their investors call them disruptive innovators. Support services, to complement the take-home kits, include therapy and transformative justice groups run by licensed facilitators. . “We Leda Health outsources most of the tricky Ethereum software support to the blockchain startup Deqode.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The Prague-based company represents one of the Battlefield 200 startup exhibitors at TC Disrupt this week, and TechCrunch caught up with the cofounders to get the lowdown on what Talkbase is all about, and the problem that it’s looking to solve. Community meets product. Talkbase: Task management Image Credits: Talkbase.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Part of the investment will be used to hire more staff in South Africa and support the commercial expansion to the U.S. “How we’ve disrupted our space in South Africa, we see an opportunity over there. The investment comes as the startup is ramping up efforts to expand into the U.S.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2022

Besides incumbent staffing agencies, Deng acknowledges that there are several startups with business models similar to Clipboard’s, like NurseDash, CareRev and Nomad Health, which focuses on travel nurses. That, Deng says, should be sufficient runway to build out new teams to support the company’s growing business.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

2 Incumbent banks miss the mark in two crucial areas: The banking experience has not evolved to match modern consumer expectations. Monzo attacked incumbent models by creating an entirely app-based experience where customers could open a checking account from their phone for free. Traditional banks have not been able to keep pace.

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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.” What costs will be needed to support them? Jean de la Rochebrochard ( @jlr ), a partner at TheFamily , recently published a very good piece on Medium titled “ Here’s my investment thesis.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 21, 2021

Eddie Yoon’ Superconsumers In virtually every market, there is a subset of customers whose pain is the most pronounced, who will be your most important supporters on the zero-to-one journey. These tremendously insightful and influential consumers will pay more, explore more and advocate more.”— How to find them?

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

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. Another alternative is a pyramid which expresses a startups intent to disrupt a market by addressing a new segment, as in this example for Expensify.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

has a legacy, centralized financial infrastructure that needs to be disrupted and re-imagined by fintechs with blockchain technology. ” Also in the report: “Exits have also stalled as IPO activity grinds to a halt, and analysts expect fintech startups will attract the attention of incumbents looking for M&A opportunities.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

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. About 28% of the team — mostly sales and support staff — were laid off. These companies, of course, join a plethora of others in the U.S. Proptechs continue to take a hit.

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

But it also might start to analyze customers’ behavior in online webinars, conversations with customer support and sales teams, and more - all of which is unstructured data stored in video & raw text & audio files. For example, synthesizing insights across sales and customer support conversations to prioritize product road maps.

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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. These conscious retail companies give customers a reason to come back beyond the economic transaction.

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Y Combinator

APRIL 26, 2021

Even with $125K from YC and $1–2M in venture funding, a startup’s credit limit is still likely to tap out at $20K from an incumbent creditor—which is not nearly enough to cover software, marketing, and other expenses. Over time, Stripe has expanded to support more business models (e.g., The incumbent system involves three key “stacks.”

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Ones that offer amazing value (low relative margins) at high volumes that makes it nearly impossible for high-cost incumbents to compete. How does the incumbent respond? Does your product dramatically reduce costs in an industry with large incumbents and fat margins? How do existing incumbents compete with that?

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 17, 2013

DirecTV has supported this feature for some time, initially on the Internet via the browser and more recently via their smartphone application. Then came client-server, which also launched new winners at the expense of older incumbents. The game is about to start, and you forgot to record it. It’s like magic.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

So when Sam Rosen came to me with the idea of disrupting storage with a product that is priced cheaper than existing incumbents and he could build a product that is a better service I was intrigued. What is the CPM of ads in this industry (should I even be ad supported?). Incumbent Strengths & Weaknesses.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Even large, established leaders need to stay on top of changing dynamics and emerging companies that may disrupt their market. And are you realistically able to acquire and retain enough of them to support and scale your business? By examining these questions, you can identify areas that are ripe for disruption. Market size.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The infusion brings the company’s total raised to $69 million, which CEO Gordon Downes says will be put toward expanding Nyshex’s service to support all types of ocean freight contracts. Downes makes the case that the ocean shipping industry lacks the basic digital infrastructure that exists in other markets.

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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. It’s true that corporate perks are ripe for disruption (pardon the well-worn term). ” Image Credits: Compt. .

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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. The products that appeal to salespeople, sales development reps, marketing associates, customers support reps are the most successful.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The emergence of generative AI, cloud computing, and new spatial platforms is poised to disrupt 3D creation end-to-end. While Unreal and Unity try to support all platforms enabling cross-platform development, they make performance tradeoffs with the engine for the one-size-fits all approach.

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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. Neither Taleb nor Christensen maintains a list of the industries or companies likely to be disrupted, for example.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 17, 2013

A high rake will allow you to achieve larger revenues faster, but it will eventually represent a strategic red flag – a pricing umbrella that can be exploited by others in the ecosystem, perhaps by someone with a more disruptive business model. This resulted in more selection for the consumer and more support from the supplier base.

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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

JANUARY 16, 2021

Overall, local investors cited the country’s focus on global markets from day one, general support from the Israeli government and deep relationships with Silicon Valley and other global tech centers as additional factors that are powering it forward today. This a great example of company that is disrupting a traditional market.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 24, 2022

And on the distant horizon, TechCrunch Disrupt will return to San Francisco on October 18. CEO Anatoly Yakovenko announced this week that its first product, the Osom OV1, will be an Android smartphone that supports decentralized apps reliant on the Solana blockchain. I can’t wait to see your smiling faces there.

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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

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. Economic growth is a great starting point.

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