Y Combinator

JANUARY 21, 2021

In the last few years, incumbents have started to adopt technology to fix inefficiencies, but they’ve focused on tools to streamline individual tasks (e.g., Fragmented supply and demand is a problem for incumbents, but a great opportunity for a digital marketplace. On the supply side of the US freight market, there are 1.6

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TechCrunch

MAY 1, 2021

He’s neutral-to-positive, saying that his firm does not “think all the companies in the market will work but still thinks ‘insurtechs’ will take market share from incumbents over the next decade.” Fair enough. And Accel is still considering more deals in the space, as are others. A long, weird week.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 19, 2016

Also called the marketing mix , these four variables need to be aligned when determining pricing for your startup. Apple serves as a great example of a company whose marketing mix is aligned and consistent. A bottoms up company like Expensify requires a different marketing mix than a premium software company like Workday.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

BNPL player Affirm last week reported mixed financial results. Also from Sarah Perez: “ Google announced it’s expanding its user choice billing pilot, which allows Android app developers to use other payment systems besides Google’s own. While its fiscal first quarter revenue of $361.62 Its stock tanked to a new 52-week low of $11.94

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

Looking ahead, KPMG’s view on the prospects for financial services M&A over the next six to 12 months is mixed. Wiseasy is a brand you might not have heard of, but it’s a popular Android-based payment terminal maker used in restaurants, hotels, retail outlets and schools across the Asia-Pacific region.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 24, 2022

Reactions have been mixed, Jacquelyn reports. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has informed dozens of vendors that it’s barring the practice of loading “non-bank prepaid payment instruments” — prepaid cards, for instance — using credit lines.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. The competition intensified further last year when American incumbents Beyond Meat and Eat Just entered China. LG continued pushing envelopes — albeit to mixed effect. Thanks very much for reading — I hope you have a fantastic weekend. Walter Thompson.

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A Smart Bear

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Can you compete in a niche where incumbents don’t care or cannot move quickly? This was an example of “high risk, high reward.” Like startups. So the first question is: Can you reduce the number of things which have to go right? Can you convert some of those things into 100%? For example, can you pick a large and growing market?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Generative AI , essentially, describes the process of using algorithms to create (“generate”) new content. market in June 2021 , and later went on to add a free “basic” tier to the mix with certain restrictions in place. ” Founded four years ago, Neeva has taken on some $77.5

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2022

market in June last year , later going on to add a free “basic” tier to the mix with certain restrictions in place. By default, Neeva uses a person’s IP address to “infer” where the user is, though based on my tests, it was several hundred miles off. France and Germany. Neeva search engine. Tripadvisor.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

During the initial onboarding process, users are first asked to select topics that interest them — such as databases, developer tools or data science — and then they sign up using either their email address or credentials associated with Facebook, Google, GitHub, or Apple. So what, exactly, is Daily.dev hoping to bring to the mix?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

This might involve gathering and viewing all direct and indirect feedback in a single interface, or using one of Crowd.dev’s premium tools such as Eagle Eye , which leans on natural language processing (NLP) to identify community discussions ripe for engagement. Eagle Eye app. We’re the first going in the developer space.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2022

” But depending on how they’re used, tools like QuickVid threaten to flood already-crowded channels with spammy and duplicative content. It’s easy to use. QuickVid uses the prompt to generate a script, leveraging the generative text powers of GPT-3. “This is the use case we’re focused on.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Community managers might use any number of platforms to manage their community, such as Slack, Discord, or Hubspot, and this essentially is where Talkbase enters the fray — it bridges various community management tools, bringing everything under one roof. This can also be used to identify existing members of the community (e.g.

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Unvalidated Learnings

JUNE 8, 2017

Not only did the incumbents fail to grasp the potential value, but it would have made no sense for them to go after such a small unprofitable niche, which would have been irrelevant to their top line, and eating away at their bottom line (CDs were 90%+ gross margin products back then). most of the value created would accrue to new entrants.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Platforms that are transforming how people and businesses operate, go about their business or leverage their core assets, using superior products, data and AI. Any area that needs to compete both with incumbents and also a set of already successful “new age” companies that made the first step of meaningful disruption.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Most frequently people use this phrase in association with personal technology devices (heart-monitors, exercise accessories, sleep monitors, etc) that allow consumers to take direct control of their health information. The subject of the “consumerization of healthcare” has been around for many years. If you were a U.S.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The mix of positives such as a fast-growing population–the youngest globally–, solid smartphone penetration, increasing crypto adoption, and negatives like low GDP per capita across board and unemployment makes Africa the next ripe ground for web3. For instance, users can save their data spend when they use Jambo.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2021

The data is based on a sample of 2,500 companies that have used AngelList to syndicate deals from 2013 through 2020. With the Coinbase direct listing behind us and the Robinhood IPO ahead, it’s a heady time for consumer-focused trading apps. Image Credits: Nigel Sussman (opens in a new window). are all testament to this.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Our firm has had the good fortune to invest in many two-sided networks that used information aggregation, supplier aggregation, and user generated content to attract and inform consumers and resultantly disrupt and change different industries. Additionally, all of us that have been consumers of the U.S.

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