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What Is a Business Model? Business Models Explained

Up and Running

Airbnb is a well-known example of the marketplace business model. Understanding the problem you are solving for your customers is undoubtedly the biggest challenge you’ll face when you’re starting a business. But, ensuring that your product fits the needs of the market is only one part of starting a successful business.

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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.

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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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Social CRM at the Crossroads

Venture Chronicles

Marketing – Marketing Automation, Revenue Performance Management, Social Marketing, Email Marketing, Enterprise Marketing Management, Database Marketing. The evolution of business is all about the reduction of latency and disintermediation through technology, as in the elimination of human action. Traditional CRM Suites.

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Winners and Losers in the Coming Crowdfunding World

Growthink Blog

Then, layer in elements of the kinds of companies funded by angel investment groups and early stage venture capital firms – i.e. focused on hot technology spaces like mobile commerce, healthcare information technology and possessing fast-scaling revenue and thoughtful “Porter Five Forces-Friendly” business models.

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Are Banks the Next Dinosaurs?

thebarefootvc

Twenty years from now, we will see disintermediation of banks, and millenials will no longer recognize the current banking system as they will receive financial services from a number of new entrants in the technology sector. employ 60K people in 11 countries. The post Are Banks the Next Dinosaurs?

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Are Banks the Next Dinosaurs?

thebarefootvc

Twenty years from now, we will see disintermediation of banks, and millenials will no longer recognize the current banking system as they will receive financial services from a number of new entrants in the technology sector. employ 60K people in 11 countries.