education incumbents innovation 
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 22, 2015
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. years it was hard to get other investors to see this unsexy market as ripe for innovation. And our competitors are not really each other but the incumbent businesses that have 99.9%
500
OCTOBER 25, 2019
Conventional wisdom dictated that incumbents should focus their innovation efforts on R&D and growing their cash cows while investing in a few startups. As one of the most active, early-stage investors in the world¹, 500 Startups has a unique perspective on the innovation economy. Since 2010, we’ve.
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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. Big companies just don’t seem to innovate the same way. We will invest pre-revenue and even pre-product if we have discovered the right team in the right kind of market.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 15, 2014
Online education. They point out perceived market risks, they might question the management team’s experience, they might worry about regulatory risk or incumbent competitive powers. I know – I was there when the first people debating funding it at less than a $5m valuation. Almost nobody believed and now look at it.
StartupNation
MARCH 16, 2021
What separates successful entrepreneurs from the failing masses is the use of innovation to reduce risk and decrease the odds of failure. Innovation is how new ideas, solutions, methods and products make it into the world; and innovation is most successful when it solves existing customer problems. Approximately 34.5%
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. The technology industry is often thought of as being the domain of the young and the new.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 3, 2021
The one thing I would say about Draper Esprit is that we are trying to be innovative. Talking about innovation in venture capital models, what’s the main motivation for your use of retail investment platform PrimaryBid? So, there’s been a great education system, great engineering infrastructure.
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