View from Seed

JULY 31, 2014

As my partner Rob Go has written , our goal is to invest half in consumer web and mobile and half in business-focused ventures. Ecommerce has transcended merely shipping a box to your home — it’s about leveraging mobile plus the internet to create an elegant purchasing experience previously unavailable. The “Internet of Things”.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The great RockMelt social disintermediation – [link]. Lessons Learned From Helping Over 150 Startups With Marketing Part 1 – [link]. Who’s on first? – [link].

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Version One Ventures

JULY 19, 2018

With Amazon capturing nearly 50% of US e-commerce market , it may seem that there isn’t much room for a new marketplace focused on products. mobile) and/or new or differentiated supply. With that said, here are some opportunities we see for the next generation of large, venture-scale marketplace businesses: Product marketplaces.

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thebarefootvc

JANUARY 15, 2020

I had alluded to this in a piece I wrote in 2015 – Are Banks the Next Dinosaurs?: “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.

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A Crowded Space

JULY 24, 2014

People may be hesitant to enter this market because of difficulties working with Medicare and Medicaid. Estimates are that there are nearly 1M workers that fall in the “grey market” - the term used here for home care aides paid out of pocket through private arrangements. . 1) Value-add from the mobile app.

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Rob Go

JANUARY 21, 2016

The ride experience is better in an UberX than a taxi, uberX is cheaper than a taxi, and on demand mobile booking, payments, etc make it way more convenient. M arketplace businesses are the classic example of this because they disintermediate the supply chain and offer a more free exchange of products between buyers and sellers.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 2, 2012

Well, the first group of winners will undoubtedly be the tens of millions of American entrepreneurs - and eventually hundreds of millions of worldwide - that for the first time in human history will have access to on-demand capital for their creative and future-focused projects and initiatives.

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