TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Discount airlines, cell phones (not smartphones) and integrated circuits are good examples of the “faster, cheaper, simpler” variety, because they simply displaced familiar incumbents. People tend to think that category creation is less risky than incumbent disruption.

strategy 95

strategy incumbents VC disruption 95

TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

” With this company, Monovoukas, is scratching his own itch — he started his career as a medical device entrepreneur; his first foray into entrepreneurship. “Instead, what ends up happening is the only path that a small company has to get their products to market is to go and get acquired by a big incumbent enterprise.

education 58

education incumbents innovation entrepreneurship 58

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. But there’s a big disconnect between where so much of the tech industry’s attention and investment is going and the spending power and lifestyle preferences of today’s older adults.

incumbents 101

incumbents peer-to-peer strategy disruption 101

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

“We started with the idea of the power of data and using a wider range of resources [than incumbents], and using that in our pricing led us to be able to offer better rates to more people,” Oliver said, but that hasn’t led to Marshmallow seeing sharper competition from older incumbents.

incumbents 87

incumbents technology startup strategy 87

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Banks were forced to respond by making new and significant investments in risk and compliance management systems. This, in turn, led to even greater investments in data and AI as financial institutions sought to gain a clearer understanding of their consumers and the overall operations of their business.

incumbents 89

incumbents innovation technology capital 89

TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

With plans to raise a $25 million fund and more than $15 million already invested, PsyMed Ventures focuses on early-stage startups developing psychedelic therapeutics. According to Marc Schröder, managing partner at MGV, “seed-stage investing is the best place for venture capital to deploy when global uncertainty sprouts up.”

transportation 88

transportation venture capital incumbents hospitality 88

TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2022

Unfortunately this is all too common among the leadership of incumbent corporations. When faced with confusing facts and suspicious clues, what did Yoda do? He retreated to his chambers to meditate, but he did not take action. Yes, Yoda got Kodaked.

strategy 65

strategy startup incumbents venture capital 65

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

GM invests in fast-charging battery startup : And for something a bit different, U.S. But first up is Natasha’s dive into Mos , which founder Amira Yahyaoui says is gunnin’ to become “the incumbent bank in the U.S.” We’ve seen similar plusses and minuses in the crypto world , for example.

incumbents 89

incumbents board enablement startup 89

TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

Mercedes Bent and Bradley Twohig , partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners (a multistage generalist fund with investments including Forage, Clever and Outschool). Rising African venture investment powers fintech, clean tech bets in 2020. Rising African venture investment powers fintech, clean tech bets in 2020. yourprotagonist.

VC 107

VC founder media education 107

TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Here are the investors in their own words, for any TechCrunch reader who is interested in hiring, investing or founding a company in the country. What trends are you most excited about investing in, generally? What’s your latest, most exciting investment? Oh, and one more thing. We just launched Extra Crunch in Israel.

startup 141

startup mix-use SaaS advice 141

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The Starling founder nearly ignored the message completely, but what followed was an offer not just to invest in Starling’s seed round but to do a mega-round released in tranches. I think that I come across lots of people asking me for advice, so I wanted to do that, I wanted to put it all down into a book about entrepreneurship.

founder 77

founder entrepreneurship entrepreneurs incumbents 77

TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

The competition intensified further last year when American incumbents Beyond Meat and Eat Just entered China. Nichols joined us on TechCrunch Early Stage to discuss his strategies for early-stage investing and how those lessons can translate into a successful launch for budding entrepreneurs. How to get into a startup accelerator.

board 91

board pitching venture capital mix-use 91

WSJ - The Accelerators

JULY 2, 2015

Between 2000 and 2002, Industry Canada reported that roughly a quarter of the venture funding for Canadian startups came from the United States, while the converse was not true – Canadian venture capitalists maybe accounted for 1% of venture investments into U.S. This trend of foreign startups seeking earlier and earlier U.S.

ventures 28

ventures incumbents venture capital financing 28

OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

We're going to talk about why you invest in what you invest. And we're going to talk about, do you ever invest in non startup stuff? I don't know if you recall this Sam, that there was something that was said about VCs or investment or something. You can invest in things. We're also going to talk about your ideas.

frameworks 135

frameworks culture advice networking 135

abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

In November of 2015, I posted a tweet that declared Benchmark was interested in discovering Internet healthcare investments. Over the next two years, I looked at many healthcare IT investment opportunities – I went “all in.” We also discovered what we believe is a large and investible trend/theme.

health 43

health VC hospitality disruption 43