Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 28, 2021

Many people think of pricing as monetization, but just as important to think through it as an acquisition strategy. If you are pursuing a two step go-to-market strategy with which the first user has a low willingness to pay, but the ultimate buyer has a larger budget, consider usage pricing. Value/ Usage. Intermittent. Intermittent.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 11, 2022

Even when startups get big, it doesn’t mean they’re safe from their competition. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Many startup businesses – tech or otherwise – fail. Trying outrageous new things or even trying mundane things but in new ways but with extreme quality & innovation is what fuels the tech startup industry. But today I want to give you advice on how to decrease your odds of failure in a startup.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Incumbents became increasingly annoyed with our successes in the country’s largest market – NYC – that they started even taking out ads against us. It’s no wonder incumbents don’t want us to exist. They had instilled in me a discipline that few well-funded but inexperienced startups have.

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500

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Conventional wisdom dictated that incumbents should focus their innovation efforts on R&D and growing their cash cows while investing in a few startups. We believe the new corporate landscape calls for new strategies. The post The Future of Corporate Venture Capital appeared first on 500 Startups.

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A Smart Bear: Longform

MARCH 3, 2024

The typical dynamics between startups and incumbents do not apply in AI as they did in previous technology revolutions like mobile and the Internet. Ignore this at your peril.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

He’s also a Silicon Valley venture capitalist, sits on the boards of several startups, is a many-time entrepreneur himself, and was previously an exec at GE and Intel. As a venture capitalist who frequently works with tech startups, what are some of the traditional competencies that startups typically overlook and underappreciate?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 3, 2023

In fundraising, a founder’s greatest challenge is not selling any particular product or strategy. The competition is not your market competitor or incumbent. In a market inundated with “digital health” startups and “infrastructure solutions,” it’s vital to differentiate yourself.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 12, 2023

As Paul Uhrig, Chief Legal and Digital Health Officer of Bassett Healthcare Network and Executive Director of Bassett Innovation Center told us, “if we can get the ultimate user excited and to be champions about this, that I found to be very much the winning strategy.” Transparency is critical.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 15, 2022

In a statement, the startup said it the fresh capital will enable it to continue building out a leadership team and to invest in product and technology development. Ayoconnect’s vision is to drive financial inclusion for Indonesian consumers and SMEs working in conjunction with regulators and incumbent banks to facilitate this.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

Signaling that investments in the supply chain sector remain robust, Pando , a startup developing fulfillment management technologies, today announced that it raised $30 million in a Series B round, bringing its total raised to $45 million. ” There’s truth to what Jayakrishnan’s expressing about pent-up demand.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

For nearly all fintech startups, lending has long been the end game. Several startups including Slice, Jupiter, Uni and KreditBee have long used the PPI licenses to issue cards and then equip them with credit lines. Some banks have been employing the same strategy for like a decade!” ” the founder added.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Below are some edited highlights from this year’s speakers, where they share their thoughts, experiences, and strategies around generative AI. Marc Andreessen spoke with fellow a16z General Partner Martin Casado about how entrepreneurs and startups might think about generative AI, largely from a product perspective.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2023

Amongst these questions are actual costs of therapies, reimbursement coverage, the commercialisation strategy for psychedelic drug development companies, resource bottlenecks with the therapists’ supply and infrastructure, etc,” they told TechCrunch+. Drug development is very costly, and start-ups are having a harder time raising cash.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 21, 2021

You are ready to launch and thinking about the right go-to-market strategies that will lead to quick and scalable growth ? —?a a critical juncture of your venture’s life cycle, as a majority of startups have only one chance to make a strong first impression. Winning big often means starting small.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

Let’s explore the red flags investors will look for to determine which bucket your startup falls into. As a startup founder, you really need to understand how venture capital works. Fundamentally, the idea doesn’t work as a VC-scale startup; and if that is true, it doesn’t really matter how good your idea is.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 19, 2016

What is the optimal pricing strategy for a start up? Also called the marketing mix , these four variables need to be aligned when determining pricing for your startup. Also called the marketing mix , these four variables need to be aligned when determining pricing for your startup. That depends. We cannot set price in a vacuum.

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Andreessen Horowitz

AUGUST 30, 2023

There are really three investable opportunities in the category of “known knowns”: Sell software to incumbents Compete with incumbents, with generative AI at the core Buy incumbents and remake them with AI—what a “generative AI” KKR would be doing Think about Rocket Mortgage, with thousands of mortgage brokers and 2022 net revenues of $5.8

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

When much of the shopping shifted online during the global pandemic, startups developing software and other products to aid the transition began to garner attention from venture capital firms. The CEO is Guru Hariharan, who you might remember from retail analytics company Boomerang Commerce , a Startup Battlefield finalist in 2014.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

Healthtech startups across Africa, such as Ivory Coast- and French-based Susu are stepping up to fill this need. And in a bid to continue providing affordable and accessible healthcare for its customers in Ivory Coast, Senegal and Cameroon, the Ivorian startup is being backed with $1 million in pre-seed funding.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

According to one source, generative AI startups raised $1.7 There’s scores of competition, including incumbents like OpenAI and Anthropic. As for Re, he’s co-founded various startups, including SambaNova , which builds hardware and integrated systems for AI. billion in Q1 2023, with an additional $10.68

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

We see an emphasis on young founders (“40 Under 40”), innovative ideas and disruptive challenges to legacy brands, incumbent companies and “old” ways of thinking. One of the best strategies for tech companies that want to serve the older adult market is to focus your value proposition on empowering older adults.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

CoreWeave , an NYC-based startup that began as an Ethereum mining venture, has secured a large tranche of funding as it continues to transition to a general-purpose cloud computing platform. ” It’s tough for any cloud provider to compete with the incumbents in the space — i.e., Google, Amazon and Microsoft.

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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. At the time, the startup’s co-founder and CEO, Segun Adeyemi , said that he was taking a break and would “likely start another company” later.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2023

Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. For startups, this means branding will become a different challenge if they want to reach this demographic slice. Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts. Why the extra edition?

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

The startup ecosystem is a terrific manufacturer of bad fundraising advice. They’ll tell you all about their strategy, the order of operations of who and how they pitched, the magic slides, the timing of the raise itself, etc. Well, if you add it to your startup, it does a few things. This isn’t surprising. That adds risk.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

Ivella , a Santa Monica-based startup, wants to build banking products for couples to take away some of these tensions. Led by CEO and co-founder Kahlil Lalji , the startup is launching with a split account product that just raised $3.5 This wasn’t how the startup, well, started. Zeta, which raised a $1.5

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

The startup launched its banking services in 2017, aimed at making younger consumers comfortable doing all their banking online. Today, the startup competes with Chime, Current, N26, Level, Step and Moven, among many others. At the same time, we are continuing to execute our robust near-term product strategy to support future growth.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

The line between social networking and gaming is increasingly blurring , and internet incumbents are taking notice. IMVU has raised more than $77 million from five rounds since it was co-founded by “The Lean Startup” author Eric Ries back in 2004. The company declined to disclose its post-money valuation.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

There are so many startups pledging to reinvent the mortgage process that it’s hard to keep up. The latest startup to raise venture money with the goal of making the process “smarter and faster” is one that was founded by a pair of executives that spent years at real estate giant Zillow. No doubt it has plenty of competition.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Cresicor , a consumer packaged goods trade management platform startup, raised $5.6 We also provide analytics for their strategy and where they should be spending it — which store, on which supply. million in seed funding to further develop its tools for more accurate data and analytics.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In a sign that national security tech is a safe bet even during troubled economic times, defense- and security-focused VC firm Razor’s Edge Ventures today announced the closing of its third startup investment fund at just under $340 million. In the U.S., For example, Razor’s Edge recently invested in Corsha , a Washington, D.C.-based

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

startups founded by Black people — Oliver and Alexander — to reach that figure. (To When we covered the company’s most recent funding round before this — a $30 million raise in November 2020 — the startup was valued at $310 million. — a strategy that has been in the works for a while.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Descript , the audio and video editing platform founded in 2017 by former Groupon CEO Andrew Mason, has raised $50 million in a Series C round led by the OpenAI Startup Fund, a tranche through which OpenAI and its partners, including Microsoft, are investing in early-stage companies.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2023

Embedding a learning management system directly into workers’ core everyday tools is one of LMS365’s core selling points versus incumbents in the LMS space such as Workday , Eloomi , or TalentLMS. Germany, and Australia. “We “We will use M&A strategically going forward, including in relation to product development.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

The startup has raised €70 million ($77 million at today’s rates), at what I understand from a person close to the company to be a $2 billion post-money valuation. Along with that news, it’s launching a crypto trading platform and B2B payments for its small and medium business customers. Why Will Ferrell? ”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Y Combinator’s latest batch — W22 — features 414 startups from 42 countries, representing more than 80 sectors. India, with 32 startups, is the second-largest demographic represented in the new batch, while Nigeria is third, having delivered 18 startups. As usual, the U.S. has the most representation. beU delivery.

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