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Understanding How The Innovator’s Dilemma Affects You

Both Sides of the Table

The framework of his book has profoundly altered how I think about the technology market and affects how I thought about building my businesses and how I think about investing in venture capital. It should affect how you think if you are an incumbent but also if you’re a startup. Incumbents feel threatened.

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Why the startup sector should keep its eye on the SEC

TechCrunch

Three key areas of proposed intervention by the SEC offer examples of why the venture community should be paying attention: Increasing barriers to capital for companies and funds Public and private markets are regulated differently by design.

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AI chip startup Sima.ai bags another $30M ahead of growth

TechCrunch

A recent ZDNet piece reaffirms that the AI edge chip market is booming, fueled by “staggering” venture capital financing in the hundreds of millions of dollars. As the demand for AI-powered apps grows, startups developing dedicated chips to accelerate AI workloads on-premises are reaping the benefits.

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Mexico’s Mendel secures $35M to tackle LatAm’s corporate spend management problem

TechCrunch

Unlike CMOs who have all sorts of media optimization platforms, content creation tools and social listening software, and CTOs who have countless frameworks, repositories, CI and code-enhancement collaboration tools, CFOs still rely mostly on spreadsheets and ERPs – and in some companies even fax machines.”

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Skio raises $3.7M to help brands on Shopify sell subscriptions

TechCrunch

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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An actionable framework for founders bridging into web3

TechCrunch

Does the ability to make users collective owners in the platform’s success give you an advantage over web2 incumbents? Will access to a shared, open, data layer make your offering more attractive than if you hoard the data in a proprietary database? Can you bootstrap one side (or both sides) of a marketplace through in-protocol incentives?

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Felicis Ventures partners share the four pillars of scaling a SaaS startup

TechCrunch

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. Product-market fit. Startups must be able to demonstrate that they have users that love their product.

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