TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

Support services, to complement the take-home kits, include therapy and transformative justice groups run by licensed facilitators. . “We We’ve also documented potential investors engaging with social media posts calling for us to be jailed.” . Even so, the idea of survivors managing their own data has sparked vehement backlash. .

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 18, 2023

The company’s mission to reduce home-based fossil fuel dependency has attracted additional support from Incite Ventures, MCJ Collective, Garage Capital, Climate Capital, and Spacecadet. However, most heat pump systems today are more difficult to use than their more mature fossil incumbents. For more information, visit www.quilt.com.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

However, it differentiated itself by committing to payments on social media platforms, which Nigerian digital bank Carbon was interested in when it acquired the startup in 2019. Amplify was another payment platform that launched during that period.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 24, 2022

This round was also supported by a number of prominent angel investors including former executives at Namely and Ultimate Software. Most companies in Southeast Asia are currently using local HR software that supports only basic admin functions, leaving many HR processes to be done manually.

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incumbents enablement support ventures 52

Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 21, 2021

Eddie Yoon’ Superconsumers In virtually every market, there is a subset of customers whose pain is the most pronounced, who will be your most important supporters on the zero-to-one journey. These tremendously insightful and influential consumers will pay more, explore more and advocate more.”— How to find them?

startup 89

startup strategy SaaS incumbents 89

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Community-led growth (CLG) has emerged as a popular mechanism for driving business, as companies strive to foster an ecosystem of fervent users that draws in new customers organically, serves as a support network for millions and bangs a company’s drum completely off its own volition.

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communities development mix-use incumbents 82

This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 14, 2013

Instead of running a series of interviews of everyone in the NYC tech community, I'm going to use proxies--media lists, suggestions from others. It would have garnered a lot of crowd support, and that would have made me feel "right". But what would it have accomplished? Aim to be the obvious invitation.

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peer-to-peer incumbents opportunity media 296

TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

We are deeply grateful for their contributions and they will receive our full support during this time of transition. These actions are never taken lightly, but we believe they are necessary in order to ensure the long-term sustainability of the company and our commitment to supporting local restaurants.”

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incumbents sustainability venture capital support 93

abovethecrowd.com

JULY 17, 2013

DirecTV has supported this feature for some time, initially on the Internet via the browser and more recently via their smartphone application. Then came client-server, which also launched new winners at the expense of older incumbents. The game is about to start, and you forgot to record it. It’s like magic.

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incumbents real estate disruption development 96

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

So when Sam Rosen came to me with the idea of disrupting storage with a product that is priced cheaper than existing incumbents and he could build a product that is a better service I was intrigued. What is the CPM of ads in this industry (should I even be ad supported?). Incumbent Strengths & Weaknesses. Market Structure.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 6, 2021

And are you realistically able to acquire and retain enough of them to support and scale your business? Most startups view market incumbents as their competition, but in reality it’s usually other startups you need to overcome first. That’s the only way to rise above the noise in today’s media landscape and have your voice be heard.

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startup strategy incumbents disruption 107

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Ones that offer amazing value (low relative margins) at high volumes that makes it nearly impossible for high-cost incumbents to compete. How does the incumbent respond? Does your product dramatically reduce costs in an industry with large incumbents and fat margins? How do existing incumbents compete with that?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The infusion brings the company’s total raised to $69 million, which CEO Gordon Downes says will be put toward expanding Nyshex’s service to support all types of ocean freight contracts. Downes makes the case that the ocean shipping industry lacks the basic digital infrastructure that exists in other markets.

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incumbents disruption capital support 82

Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 16, 2023

We will build the product and attract more people with a free tier and then attract even more people with paid media. The problem, as I see it, is that having a truly free product tier and making paid media a dominant channel are pretty much incompatible with a subscription business. Then we’ll have a giant business.

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media advice incumbents creativity 84

TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

“It used to be that if you were a fintech startup or, for lack of a better term, a digitally native financial services business, you might be eyeing an acquisition from an incumbent in the industry,” Ryan Lawler writes. It’s never too early to think big, and, with the right support, launch the next industry titan.”.

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incumbents collaboration support technology 93

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

However, it does point to an opportunity for incumbents to disrupt their disruptors. While people can import into Rows data from Google Sheets, he noted that the big daddy of them all, Excel, is not supported right now. Unqork’s $207M Series C underscores growing enterprise demand for no-code apps.

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disruption incumbents board media 82

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 17, 2013

Booking.com was not always the online leader in Europe – in fact they were a disrupter stealing the flag from other large incumbents. This resulted in more selection for the consumer and more support from the supplier base. However, Amazon owns a digital media business built around Kindle.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

The competition intensified further last year when American incumbents Beyond Meat and Eat Just entered China. The area is quickly transforming thanks to active investors, low cost of living and access to amazing universities that have a long history of supporting entrepreneurs.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2022

Well before Better.com garnered negative media coverage due to the manner in which CEO and co-founder Vishal Garg callously laid off 900 employees, the controversial executive made headlines for being the target of multiple lawsuits by PIMCO, Goldman Sachs and other investors involving entities he controlled.

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financing finance enablement ventures 83

Y Combinator

MAY 1, 2019

I went to Georgia Tech for my undergrad in Computer Science, and I just found such a supportive community there that it was able to help support my natural interest, but also help me through the hard times. They were supporting me, and stuff like that. Because computer science is not an easy degree, by any means.

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peer-to-peer advice creativity opportunity 45

TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

They are founders that are not only building very interesting companies but have taken a forward approach toward making noise on social media. So how should startups that have incumbents to take on, other startups to best, or both, approach the balance between growth and spend this year? with Michael Biercuk (Q-CTRL).

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