AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 15, 2022

In a statement, the startup said it the fresh capital will enable it to continue building out a leadership team and to invest in product and technology development. Ayoconnect’s vision is to drive financial inclusion for Indonesian consumers and SMEs working in conjunction with regulators and incumbent banks to facilitate this.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

With the latest funding, ManageXR will support its expanding team and go-to-market strategy as the company has experienced rapid growth since becoming available to beta users in November 2019 and officially launching in April 2021. Los Angeles-based Talespin nabs $15 million for its extended reality-based workforce training tools.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

We’ve seen companies across the e-commerce infrastructure and enablement ecosystem pick up larger and larger rounds, and CommerceIQ is the latest to secure late-stage financing. Traditional brick-and-mortar strategy doesn’t transfer over to e-commerce, but the old way with spreadsheets and human-driven operations don’t scale.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

On the developer side, customers can integrate Kontent with other apps and technologies through APIs and “flexible content models,” enabling control over the structure of content and how it’s delivered to websites and apps. The incumbent solutions were designed for on-premise, monolithic architecture.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

On one hand, it’s hugely popular, with 10 of the top 20 or so most popular apps in regional rankings being those that enable crypto trading. Crypto trading, in that context, occupies a funny place in the Nordics, Villum Klausen told me. ” “But we believe we can build a massive business on that smaller market.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

This, along with the platform’s emphasis on no-code capabilities, differentiates Pando from incumbents like SAP, Oracle, Blue Yonder and E2Open, Jayakrishnan asserts. ” Pando makes a best effort to automate processes around the supply chain. mode of freight, carrier, etc.).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

With their new capital, the duo hopes to advance on their mission “to enable a seamless, transparent experience for financial institutions and their customers through an intelligent, opinionated and intuitive workflow platform.” ” “This is very contrary to the incumbents,” Yu told TechCrunch. “We

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 21, 2021

In the last few years, incumbents have started to adopt technology to fix inefficiencies, but they’ve focused on tools to streamline individual tasks (e.g., Fragmented supply and demand is a problem for incumbents, but a great opportunity for a digital marketplace. 3) A Strategy That Alleviates Systemic Supply Shortage.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

While insurtech incumbents and upstarts such as CarePay and Reliance Health try to make insurance readily available for the rest of the market via partnerships with companies or by enabling weekly to monthly subscription charges, users are still required most times to pay out of pocket. “A

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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 Devising an effective go-to-market strategy requires thinking beyond traditional approaches towards growth, which are often not optimal for category-defining startups.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 22, 2024

That said, we’ve outlined how we’re thinking about pricing and packaging in a part of the market that’s debating how to monetize their new genAI feature— B2B SaaS and prosumer companies —and how we’re seeing other companies approach the same question so you can better understand where your strategy fits in today.

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 30, 2021

In the long run, software platforms have the potential to be much larger than traditional incumbents. Upon digging deeper, the founders realized that incumbent providers were overly complex, and more manual than necessary. With its software up and running, Gusto needed to figure out its go-to-market strategy.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

While working for strategic advisory firm Drystone Strategy, De Gruchy routinely visited companies that he was “diligencing” for private equity deals, including dairies, roofing companies and distribution warehouses. Infogrid helps our clients to provide exactly this, which improves their rental yields and asset values.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

I talked with Dean Henry, EVP of global commercial services for Amex, and Colleen Taylor, president of merchant services, US at Amex, and they gave me some insight into the strategy behind the buy. It looks like incumbent banks and institutions are still struggling when it comes to offering tech-enabled financial services.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

We also provide analytics for their strategy and where they should be spending it — which store, on which supply. The CPG industry is in the middle of a rapid change where we see all of these emerging, digital native and mission-driven brands rapidly eating share from incumbents,” he added.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

Some banks have been employing the same strategy for like a decade!” Fintech startups are convinced that banks have lobbied the RBI to reach this decision, employing the age-old tactic where incumbents cry foul and rely on the regulator to rescue the day. ” the founder added.

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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. Bob Ruark, principal and banking and fintech strategy leader for KPMG US, noted that pricing is difficult now given the rapid decline in valuations. and Mexico.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2023

Snafus can happen even when incumbents and fintechs partner. Chief corporate development and strategy officer Greg Orenstein will move into its CFO seat.” The relationship between incumbents and upstarts has long been a complicated one. 18), but those problems were resolved by the afternoon, the bank said.

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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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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 28, 2012

Instead, investors are faced with a choice between two strategies. Option 1: pursue a contrarian growth strategy investing in a few consumer Internet companies at similar prices to the previous several years. It’s too early to tell which strategy is better.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 2, 2012

Instead of reviewing the incumbent’s strategy, I’m going to flip these around to reverse engineer these defenses and build a startup’s playbook for disruption with examples from our portfolio. Startups need to build and master their go-to-market strategy. The ecosystem barrier: Products don’t exist in a vacuum.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

YC-backed Curacel unveils new API platform that enables tech-led businesses to offer insurance. The only worry is incumbents might want to eat into Duplo’s meal — but then again, the market is massive. Website : [link]. Founded in : 2021. Team size : 22 . Location : Lagos, Nigeria. YC-backed Duplo raises $1.3M

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 25, 2017

But as I went back last night and reread Porter’s Competitive Strategy, I was surprised to learn that Porter’s intended value chain analysis to be used also at the business unit and at the company level. A unique selling strategy (Salesforce). The more interesting of the two for startups is the company level.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

What’s your web3 strategy? Does the ability to make users collective owners in the platform’s success give you an advantage over web2 incumbents? Can web3 primitives such as NFTs, on-chain credentialing, crowdfunding, and wallet-based-identity enable an experimental experience for users? More posts by this contributor.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 20, 2015

And simultaneously, freemium marketing strategies blossomed. Today, we’re seeing a new segment of the SaaS ecosystem move to free - the SaaS Enabled Marketplace (SEM). SaaS Enabled Marketplaces, like Contently, charge for both software (content management tools) and access to a market place (of content producers).

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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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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 13, 2023

A cloud native engine will enable creation of 3D experiences using any device from anywhere via a browser. Community modding enabled out of the box A next gen engine should be designed to enable a first-class modding environment out of the box that developers can choose to extend to end user creators.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Recently, Loris — which is designed to lay on top of existing customer service systems — began piloting the ability to use sentiment analysis to predict when a customer might churn and recommend the appropriate strategy. “We gather feedback from our users and empower agents to help make the system better,” Hertz said.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 18, 2023

This is called a suite strategy: Zoho published a history of the 2-4 product launches per year, which illustrates the idea. In a recent podcast, Parker Conrad champions the suite strategy, also called a compound company. Today, new startups have to compete with a cloud-native incumbency. Constellation Software.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2022

It’s another example of an incumbent recognizing that it makes more sense to buy a company that has developed technology that it wants rather than building it out itself – a process that would take far longer and require more resources than a simple acquisition would. “We Fast slows its roll. Cross River Bank is not just any bank.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The technique trains a system across multiple devices or servers holding data without ever exchanging it, enabling collaborators to build a common system without sharing data. But a new startup, DynamoFL , hopes to take on the incumbents with a federated learning platform that focuses on performance, ostensibly without sacrificing privacy.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

The firm says its intent is to go beyond term sheets to issuing bespoke “Strategy Sheets,” which outline how Vesey Ventures aims to leverage its network “to act as a company’s first business development team.” And that’s ultimately the insight that we built a thesis on,” said Fitzgerald. “In Want more fintech news in your inbox?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

In addition, a direct customer feedback loop enables The Naked Market to quickly gauge which products are winning with consumers so they can be scaled. This portfolio approach is different because we are using a data-driven fast fail strategy,” CEO Fugman told TechCrunch. “We

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

While incumbents have pioneered various enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to digitize these processes, companies would still get four to five different software platforms to complete multiple tasks. And our main product is transport management software for shippers enables multi-enterprise collaboration.

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incumbents transportation collaboration consulting 80

TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

The models of these B2B companies mirror their retail e-commerce counterparts such as Wasoko and TradeDepot, as they use tech-enabled solutions to digitize medicine distribution to underserved pharmacies, drug shops, clinics, and hospitals. As such, their growth has been rapid, Salient says.

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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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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Second, network effects that enable the business to grow faster as it scales. Most disruptive companies are better, faster, and cheaper versions of incumbents’ products. So, to maximize profits and minimize costs, a startup should prohibit competitors from developing. In other words, founders should build monopolies. (p.

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