abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

FSAs/HSAs — Flexible Spending Accounts, also referred to as Health Savings Accounts, are pools of money set aside by an employee and their employer to be used for healthcare spending. Narrow Networks — Narrow networks are an interesting response to the above market prices that the large hospitals and groups are pushing on the broader market.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Many modern replacement machines that generate or use electricity are “smart” in that they can be controlled via APIs – they are often referred to as Distributed Energy Resources (DERs). Carbon capture refers to capturing carbon from a point source emission like a power plant, vehicle, vessel, or industrial facility.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

The antitrust bills, if passed, could significantly restrict the ability of Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and other tech incumbents to acquire and punish rivals to boost their own products and services. Last weekend, the network began banning certain parody accounts following a Musk-led rule change, including the accounts of high-profile comedians.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Equally, I encouraged entrepreneurs to thoroughly reference check their VCs – you’ll learn much more from this than anything else. They incumbents might provide terrible products or services that you think you can better. I can’t tell you how incumbents will act and who else will choose to compete fiercely with us.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 23, 2023

As an early-stage founder, your ability to deliver value quickly is your most critical — and sometimes the only — competitive advantage over the incumbent competition. Distribution: what existing networks can we latch onto for easier distribution (i.e., Talk to customers who did an action rather than would do an action.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 17, 2013

In a casino, the term “rake” refers to the commission that the house earns for operating a poker game. A sustainable platform or marketplace is one where the value of being in the network clearly outshines the transactional costs charged for being in the network. This is one of my favorite marketplace business model “tweaks.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

More posts by this contributor How to win in the autonomous taxi space In the crypto world, there’s a popular maxim called the Blockchain Trilemma, which refers to the difficulty of simultaneously achieving three desirable properties in a blockchain network: security, scalability and decentralization. Delivery apps. Quick commerce.

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