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What To Do When Your Competitor Gets Funded?

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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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Why I Backed a 24-Year-Old Trying to Assess Human Potential

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When a founder is “opportunity driven” it’s too easy to quit at the first bump in the road. Incumbents launch products, VCs throw cash at other competitors, team members quit, the economy dips — whatever. We educate and train and test for a set of skills designed to succeed in 1950. Fundamentally the system feels broken.

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Why We’re Looking to Fund Stuff With More Meaning

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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’m an equal opportunity funder but having a personal mission a few deals can be healthy, too. Startup Lessons'

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Revolution co-founder talks Living Social, ZipCar, Steve Case & GroupOn Super Bowl Ads

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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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The gray revolution: Fundraising within the older adult space

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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. There is a massive opportunity to provide products and services that will make life better for today’s seniors and future generations of older adults to come.

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Venture capital funding may have slowed, but VC firms have no problems raising new funds

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With a large population, Pakistan is geographically smaller, well-connected with fewer provinces, has lower regulatory barriers and doesn’t have strong incumbents,” Khurshid, who is originally from Pakistan, said via email. This allows Pakistani startups to scale faster throughout the country and expand into other markets.”.

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Spend management platform Teampay expands partnership with Mastercard, raises $47M

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Teampay will collaborate with Mastercard “deeper” going forward, Hoag says, to “mutually explore opportunities” that “enhance product capabilities at scale.” “With education and innovation, we look forward to bringing best-in-class ‘consumerized’ tools to the finance department.”