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Parafin Transforming Delivery of Small Business Financial Services Closes $100M Series C

American Entrepreneurship

Incumbent methods systematically bias against women- and minority-owned businesses. This new capital will allow us to scale existing products, ship new products, expand into new geographies, and deepen our partnerships with platforms that support the global small business economy, explained Poddar.

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CSIT Awards over $2.7M to Support Clean Energy Startups with Demonstration Projects

American Entrepreneurship

Somerset County): Demonstrating a 5Ah zinc-ion battery for use in energy storage applications, which are safer, faster charging, and half the cost of incumbent Lithium Iron Phosphate (LFP) batteries. Coulomb Technology, Inc.

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The Complete Guide to SaaS Pricing Strategy

Tomasz Tunguz

Consider whether your startup is differentiating on pricing to compete with an incumbent, or if you’re selling a superior product at a premium, in which case using the same pricing model with higher fees reinforces your brand positioning. What should my unit of pricing be?

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After Investing $100 Million Into New VC Firms, Here’s What I Look For: Traditional But Better, or Different & Excellent.

Hunter Walk

In these cases we’re asking ourselves, can this individual/partnership execute a ‘known’ playbook better than incumbents, because it’s not very interesting to put people in business who are going to be Traditional But Average.

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What To Do When Your Competitor Gets Funded?

Both Sides of the Table

And our competitors are not really each other but the incumbent businesses that have 99.9% ” In summary: The competitors are the incumbents. ” But more importantly this same phenomenon will happen market-by-market. More consumers and businesses will hear about our solutions and want to learn more.

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The next wave of supply-chain innovation will be driven by startups that help incumbents win

TechCrunch

For years, the prevailing narrative for innovation in supply chain has focused on the disruptors: Upstarts that enter the industry with new technologies and business models to displace incumbents. Enablers take on the unglamorous role of helping incumbents stay relevant.

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The Future of Corporate Venture Capital

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Conventional wisdom dictated that incumbents should focus their innovation efforts on R&D and growing their cash cows while investing in a few startups. In the decade since the Great Recession, we have seen digital upstarts – taking advantage of disruptive technologies from AI to IoT – reshape the economy and the corporate pecking order.