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. The internet continues the disintermediation of content creation. Network Effect B2B. Most often, when people talk about “network effects,” they’re referring to consumer-facing startups.

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Seed Stage B2C Technical Review Disintermediation 272

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! Business plans for entrepreneurs: the three ‘Rs’ – Part I – [link]. Business plans for entrepreneurs: the three ‘Rs’ – Part I – [link].

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Social Media Costa Rica Small Business Design 92

A Crowded Space

APRIL 10, 2013

In the press and on home pages across the web you see metrics like 100,000 expert freelancers or over a million sellers or “adding 3,000 new users per day.” They will not care much about their online reputation, they will not drive turnaround times lower, and they will be disintermediation risks.

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Metrics Disintermediation PHP Russia 111

Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

That sounds like a lot of responsibility for someone fresh out of undergrad as I was then, but in reality both of these were peripheral elements of PayPal’s core web-based payment product which was still heavily concentrated on eBay auctions at the time. But again the store of value in prepaid minutes was the key.

Mobile 250

Mobile Disintermediation SMS Government 250

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

But as of late, web 2.0 Extremely rapidly, companies that you’ve heard of earlier are being formed into 10-20-50 billion dollar companies, so rapidly and cheaply that its a bonanza for entrepreneurs that have great ideas. There is disintermediation going on. I call it ‘science-fied.’

Social Media 94

Social Media Media Disintermediation Audience 94

aweissman.com

AUGUST 31, 2012

A few weeks ago my partner Albert Wenger wrote about Facebook being unbundled: "Facebook's Real Mobile Problem: Unbundling" where he opined that "mobile devices are doing to web services what web services did to print media: they unbundle." Let the fragmentation begin.

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Disintermediation Aggregator New York Web 51