TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

After inking deals with Amazon and Walmart, the Quidsi and Jet.com co-founder aims to launch a “more equitable” city in the desert. At Disrupt, co-founders Carolyn Childers and Lindsay Kaplan will speak to the milestone, the challenges in between and if exclusivity can disrupt community. with Marc Lore (Wonder Group).

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 13, 2024

AI, I think, so far is living up to that framework. You know, most of our economy is dominated by, you know, incumbent institutions that, you know, have no intention, I don’t think, of changing or evolving unless they’re forced to. I believe that it will. Economic growth is a great starting point.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Brad Birnbaum, founder and CEO of Kustomer , discussed the challenges of innovating on two dimensions simultaneously on the [Saastr podcast](). But customers wanted the better product with the same pricing framework as the rest of the industry. Kustomer’s platform is a fundamental re-architecture of customer support software.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

However, a fear of long sales cycles, heavy compliance requirements, and opaque organizational structures preclude many early stage founders from pursuing this go-to-market channel. Keep in mind: this sales framework is not linear , and these steps should be taken in tandem, not sequentially.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 22, 2024

At the growth stages in particular, founders need to be mindful of their unit economics and margins. We often hear these founders ask: how can I capture the value created by genAI? We’re in the very early days of genAI and until adoption curves and costs stabilize, there won’t be any tried-and-true pricing or packaging frameworks.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

But a new startup, DynamoFL , hopes to take on the incumbents with a federated learning platform that focuses on performance, ostensibly without sacrificing privacy. Tech giants, including Nvidia (via Clara ), offer federated learning as a service. ” Recently, DynamoFL closed a small seed round ($4.15

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

At the time, CEO founder and CEO Guillaume Pousaz had told TC the move was aimed at taking “advantage of the current conditions to update the tax valuation of the company.” payments landscape is currently dominated by legacy and new-age incumbents, and we know competition would ultimately deliver better outcomes for consumers.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 1, 2013

Founders/Team: How do the founders know each other? Business : In some form, I walk through the Business Model Generation framework: value proposition, key activities, key partners, major assets, channels of distribution, customer segments, cost structure and revenue streams. How do they interact with each other?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2020

Thousands of startup founders will resume the trek around Silicon Valley VC offices, once the vaccines arrive. We brought together Udacity co-founder and Kitty Hawk CEO Sebastian Thrun , Eschaton founder and college dropout Ian Dilick , and Cowboy Ventures investor Jomayra Herrera to answer our biggest questions.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

The antitrust bills, if passed, could significantly restrict the ability of Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and other tech incumbents to acquire and punish rivals to boost their own products and services. What’s Peloton co-founder John Foley been up to since he left the company in September? billion valuation. .”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

At TechCrunch Disrupt, Houseparty founder Ben Rubin emphasized decentralization as Web3’s central feature. Startup founders have more options than in years past when it comes to fundraising, thanks in large part to a surplus of liquidity. Web3 is still taking shape, so it is hard to define. In today’s Web 2.0,

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

Frameworks To Become A Billionaire. You're the co-founder of HubSpot. Or you don't do that that framework? Yeah, I have that framework. Sam: for me, yeah, I have that framework. Because people don't love the incumbent right now. You have a bunch of founder rewards games and things like that.

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Revolution

MARCH 23, 2022

which is why we assembled a panel of founders paving the way for a more proactive future in their industries. Startups are a Sustainability Accelerant: Unlike industry incumbents with slower, more outdated frameworks, startups often build with sustainability at the forefront of their business?—?even

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

As incumbent banks embraced startups, investors leaned into novel ways to reduce friction and improve accuracy, increasing annual mortgage origination by nearly 40% compared to the last decade. There’s immense opportunity for similar gains in healthcare, but long-term success requires healthcare incumbents to truly commit to automation.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 23, 2023

As an early-stage founder, your ability to deliver value quickly is your most critical — and sometimes the only — competitive advantage over the incumbent competition. To address my own need to validate these opportunities, I built an internal framework to: Identify notable problems and challenges within an industry.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Skio is taking on incumbents like ReCharge Payments, which too has built subscription software for e-commerce brands and was valued at $2.1 It claims to use modern frameworks that allow it to “build much quicker” than existing offerings. billion earlier this year after a $227 million raise. .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2022

It’s basically a software framework that developers can use and reuse without having to redesign the wheel with each new game they create. This includes long-established incumbents such as Unity, developed by tech powerhouse Unity Software, which is currently in the process of merging with IronSource.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 22, 2014

Despite those flaws, both theories are incredibly useful as frameworks to describe industry dynamics. Enterprise incumbents, constrained by large costs-of-customer-acquisition, can’t compete with startups who acquire customers for near-free , harkening Christensen’s mini-mill analogy. Same with ceramic plates.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

Doug Petkanics is the co-founder and CEO of Livepeer , an open video infrastructure for livestreaming. But for founders looking to foray into the world of decentralization, it’s all too easy to become distracted from core business objectives by shiny new buzzwords emanating from the space. Doug Petkanics. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2022

At TechCrunch Early Stage this month, we sat down with Felicis Ventures partners Viviana Faga and Niki Pezeshki to talk about scaling, product-market fit, and why it’s crucial to be “10x better” than the incumbents. Faga and Pezeshki believe that startups need a framework to measure their initial push into a niche audience.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

But it feels like we have written far less about fintechs that exist solely to help the incumbents better compete with fintechs. We have now exposed these digital capabilities to every existing cardholder,” said Andrew Jamison, CEO and co-founder of Extend. We help the incumbents close the gap relative to those players.”.

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