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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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What Is a Business Model? Business Models Explained

Up and Running

Everything it takes to sell that thing: marketing, distribution, delivering a service, and processing the sale. Disintermediation. Disintermediation is when you sidestep everyone in the supply chain and sell directly to consumers, allowing you to potentially lower costs to your customers and have a direct relationship them as well.

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Greatly Improve Your Real Estate Business By Using Blockchain Technology

YoungUpstarts

By using a decentralized distributed ledger, people feel a lot more secure than with the centralized method. Consumers today are expecting a lot more from businesses; they’re demanding transparency, eco-consciousness, disintermediation, as well as upfront and fair pricing. Minimizing the Use of Physical Paper Trails.

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4 Well-Known Companies to Emulate

Growthink Blog

Very many companies have as their business model distributing / reselling, - i.e These kinds of businesses are under severe “disintermediation” threat, as technology allows buyers and sellers to connect directly with each other, and thus bypass “middlemen” like Grainger. For profitable reselling, Grainger.

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Better, Cheaper, More Convenient

Rob Go

Convenience tends to be an area where incumbents struggle, especially when convenience is tied to new forms of distribution. Incumbents are where they are because they have scale through the existing large modes of distribution (eg: physical retail). Why Convenience is Better. For Founders.

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Don’t call it AdTech. It’s “Adhesive”

VC Adventure

The ability of Adhesive companies to insert themselves into the data stream, which existing marketplace players will enable and encourage this, and exactly who the ultimate beneficiaries are (not to mention who is being disintermediated) are key components to a company’s ability to gain rapid market share and scale. Margin Dynamics.

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Don’t call it AdTech. It’s “Adhesive”

VC Adventure

The ability of Adhesive companies to insert themselves into the data stream, which existing marketplace players will enable and encourage this, and exactly who the ultimate beneficiaries are (not to mention who is being disintermediated) are key components to a company’s ability to gain rapid market share and scale. Margin Dynamics.