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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. But we’re interested in taking this risk when the person and opportunity warrants it.

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Why I Backed a 24-Year-Old Trying to Assess Human Potential

Both Sides of the Table

Incumbents launch products, VCs throw cash at other competitors, team members quit, the economy dips — whatever. As leaders we know that to succeed in today’s economy we need people who possess abilities to deal with large volumes of information and cut through the clutter to get to what’s important.

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Putting Data in a Corner: LLMs and Financial Services Data

Andreessen Horowitz

Now, with the advent of large language models, such previously shackled information might soon be easily and widely available to everyone, ushering in a new LLM-powered era that could shift the financial services landscape. In doing so, each built the beginnings of what are now category-defining businesses.

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How a Little Bit of Fear Breeds Innovation

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Incumbent human processes were cumbersome, laborious, costly, slow and demoralizing. She is currently serving a governor-appointed position on the Information Technology Advisory Board for the State of Nevada. We used this type of expert knowledge to power our semantic engines. Other people had struggled on this journey.

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Undock raises $1.6M to help solve your group scheduling nightmares

TechCrunch

But we seem to be in a calendrical renaissance, with incumbents like Google and Outlook getting smarter and smarter and newcomers like Calendly growing significantly. Undock will also borrow from the Slack model and charge more for retention of information. “We messaged it by saying it’s like autocomplete.

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Why TransUnion led blockchain fintech Spring Labs’ $30M Series B

TechCrunch

It’s raising a $30 million Series B, led by TransUnion — one of the largest incumbents in an industry that Spring Labs is looking to shake up. The information exchange promises to preserve privacy, giving competitive parties the ability to “collaborate for the common good.”.

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Data-driven iteration helped China’s Genki Forest become a $6B beverage giant in 5 years

TechCrunch

Incumbent giants therefore could lose a sizable chunk of market share if a company could just manage to weave together China’s manufacturing proficiency and agility with the modern tech startup philosophy of “moving fast and breaking stuff.”. The tech revolution hasn’t yet affected the bottled beverage industry quite as much as it has others.