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The next wave of supply-chain innovation will be driven by startups that help incumbents win

TechCrunch

For years, the prevailing narrative for innovation in supply chain has focused on the disruptors: Upstarts that enter the industry with new technologies and business models to displace incumbents. Enablers take on the unglamorous role of helping incumbents stay relevant.

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Why We’re Looking to Fund Stuff With More Meaning

Both Sides of the Table

They point out perceived market risks, they might question the management team’s experience, they might worry about regulatory risk or incumbent competitive powers. .” So other partners at the firm might sling mud at your ideas as you go for approval on an investment.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Psychedelic biotech, Gogoro’s SPAC, H-1Bs for Ukrainians

TechCrunch

Launched in 1987, the company provides hundreds of transportation and hospitality providers with inventory management and booking services. If you can map every oasis in a desert, you’ve created a transportation network. Gogoro’s public debut could supercharge EV battery swapping across the globe.

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The Fastest Growing Areas of Startup Investment in 2015

Tomasz Tunguz

In addition, founders have raised capital to transform many of the fundamental industries: transportation, hospitality, lending, health insurance, and banking. Others, like transportation and hospitality, fueled by Uber and AirBnB fundraising efforts, command more than 6% of the billions invested in the last 12 months.

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10 investors predict MaaS, on-demand delivery and EVs will dominate mobility’s post-pandemic future

TechCrunch

The COVID-19 pandemic didn’t just upend the transportation industry. COVID-19 disrupted virtually every sector of the transportation industry. There are so many efficiencies that come from the fleet model for transportation — we think this will be an increasingly important area in the coming years.

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The Ezra Klein Show: VC Bill Gurley on Transforming Health Care

abovethecrowd.com

So if Internet and mobile technologies can be used to change real estate or transportation, why not healthcare? Bill Gurley : Well, industries get more regulated and incumbents write the regulation. Additionally, all of us that have been consumers of the U.S. Simply put, there is amble room for improvement. Why will that happen?

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Why Hulu is the OPEC of Online Video

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I have always loved watching videos there but always believed that any company controlled by a consortia of interests would be doomed in the long run – especially by established, large incumbents with an interest in protecting the past more than innovating the future. So it is quite lofty to compare hulu with OPEC.