TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Polly, a SaaS technology startup aiming to “transform” the mortgage capital markets, announced today that it has raised $37 million in a Series B funding round led by Menlo Ventures. We see this as a compelling window and opportunity to really help transform the market.”.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

Part of that includes “aggressive” hiring plans — particularly across engineering and product development — and an emphasis on its go-to-market strategy. ” “This is very contrary to the incumbents,” Yu told TechCrunch. “We

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Kentico was the brainchild of Petr Palas, who saw an opportunity to build a content management system (CMS) for developers using Microsoft’s.NET framework. The incumbent solutions were designed for on-premise, monolithic architecture. This represents a potential switching opportunity to modern CMS solutions.”

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 30, 2021

But where there is a gap, there is an opportunity. Gusto launched in 2012 to tackle this opportunity, and more. The emergence of SaaS business models has further set the stage for companies like Gusto to transform SMB operations. Gusto saw an opportunity to upend the way payroll was done.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

The company has raised over $86 million over its lifetime and counts NewView Capital and SoftBank’s SB Opportunity Fund among its backers. Meanwhile, Yaydoo has raised over $20 million from investors such as Base10 Partners, monashees, SB Opportunity Fund and Leap Global Partners. Well, that was fast! Guess we’ll see about that.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

Today’s investment showcases, if anything, how important Axie’s precedent is to the development of the broader ecosystem – and how willing VCs and crypto incumbents are to bend over backward to make sure it succeeds.”. “We’re big believers of Bitcoin, so we’re just going to continue to buy whenever there’s an opportunity to.”

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Any business where we see margin is our opportunity. Plus with advances like Google’s TensorFlow Processing Unit, custom silicon for processing machine learning models, the incumbents’ advantage shows no signs of waning. And they might win the battle with that strategy, but they’ll lose the war.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 25, 2022

I ended up taking a job at a SaaS startup called Troops after graduating, but I had already been orange-pilled back in 2017. ETH killers, BTC killers and all kinds of other projects with lofty promises and ambitious roadmaps to build better blockchains than the incumbents. Take advantage of arbitrage opportunities.

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A Smart Bear

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Startup strategy is like Kung Fu. Founders almost never have a real strategy. They say things like “we have a unique feature” and “the incumbents are dumb,” which might be true, but isn’t a strategy. There isn’t one most important SaaS metric. There are many styles that work. I can only teach you my style.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

The strategy behind it, I think, is strong in terms of it gets HubSpot into a thing which is where I think the future of SaaS companies is going to be heading. And if you miss that opportunity, you have no idea when the next opportunity to cash out your chips. Because people don't love the incumbent right now.

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