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Disintermediation–an old story playing out now

The Equity Kicker

Disintermediation is one of the oldest stories of the internet. We’ve seen Betfair cut the middleman out of sports bets for a reasonable chunk of the football and horseracing gambling market in the UK but I can’t think of another large business that has disintermediated a consumer market. access to distribution (i.e.

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Winners and Losers in the Coming Crowdfunding World

Growthink Blog

While the crowdfunding portion of the bill still needs to go through SEC rule-making, the die is clearly cast that a whole new social networking – based world of start-up and small business investing and financing is coming fast upon us. So who will the winners be and who will lose ground once the new rules are fully live?

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4 Well-Known Companies to Emulate

Growthink Blog

For recurring revenue, Uber. Trailing twelve month revenues for the company is over $100 million and the company was valued at over $1.2 For recurring revenue, Uber. Because of their well-publicized internal troubles and management dysfunction, Uber these days is everyone's favorite business punching bag. Warby Parker.

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Are Banks the Next Dinosaurs?

thebarefootvc

After his interview, I took the stage again, along with Michael Cagney (CEO, Social Finance), Steve Ellis (Head of Innovation, Wells Fargo) and Ben Milne (CEO, Dwolla) for a debate on whether millenials would stop using banks. I was assigned to debate in favor in the stance that they would. employ 60K people in 11 countries.

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Are Banks the Next Dinosaurs?

thebarefootvc

After his interview, I took the stage again, along with Michael Cagney (CEO, Social Finance), Steve Ellis (Head of Innovation, Wells Fargo) and Ben Milne (CEO, Dwolla) for a debate on whether millenials would stop using banks. I was assigned to debate in favor in the stance that they would. employ 60K people in 11 countries.