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Disintermediation–an old story playing out now

The Equity Kicker

Disintermediation is one of the oldest stories of the internet. From the 1990s onward people have been making the obvious case that the internet is a revolutionary communications platform that can remove the middleman and his cut from all sorts of transactions leaving the parties on both side of the deal to share the spoils.

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Twitter Link Roundup #60 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

The great RockMelt social disintermediation – [link]. Employee Equity: Restricted Stock and RSUs on #mbamondays – [link]. 40 People Who Changed The Internet – [link]. Business plans for entrepreneurs: the three ‘Rs’ – Part I – [link]. What I Wish I Knew Before I Started My Company – [link].

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Growthink Innovation Series: FinTech

Growthink Blog

Quite simply, the digital, mobile, and Internet revolutions are transforming the way customers access financial products and services of all types, and across all consumer and business sectors. What does financial disintermediation really mean? The panelists are: Mr. Rafe Furst , Co-Founder Crowdfunder.

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Winners and Losers in the Coming Crowdfunding World

Growthink Blog

financial markets this past decade has resulted in an entire banking industry generation to simply not even know how to do the hard diligence work of equity and fundamentals-based investing in growth businesses. Well, for starters the very unfortunate “derivatives-focus” of the U.S.