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Winners and Losers in the Coming Crowdfunding World

Growthink Blog

3606 - the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) bill, which includes provisions that for the first time legalize investment-based crowdfunding. Liberatingly, crowdfunding will allow smaller companies to simply bypass and disintermediate these broken financial sources altogether. This week, the President is expected to pass H.R.

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Terence Kawaja Presents “Clash of the Titans” in Social Media

VC Cafe

Companies from a vast variety of background who have never compete with each other, are now converging business models and are all competing. And so, the titans have to figure out a way to license new content, or pay for access to get customers. There is disintermediation going on.

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Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That's Never - AgileVC

Agile VC

They are fully fungible for hard currency through Safaricom’s network of retail partners for either the sender or recipient of an M-Pesa mobile payment. And at the end of the day it appears Isis will just be working with the existing credit card networks Visa, MC, Amex, & Discover. . Good luck to Ben. Is that it?

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Are Banks the Next Dinosaurs?

thebarefootvc

I personally don’t view this as a binary answer – I do believe that banks have been slow to adapt to changing customer needs particularly in light of the 2008 financial crash. Banks have also shown that they have been unable to protect customer data while they continue to provide services irrelevant to the millennial generation.

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Are Banks the Next Dinosaurs?

thebarefootvc

I personally don’t view this as a binary answer – I do believe that banks have been slow to adapt to changing customer needs particularly in light of the 2008 financial crash. Banks have also shown that they have been unable to protect customer data while they continue to provide services irrelevant to the millennial generation.