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The Boundaryless Era: the Time for Distributed Teams

ReadWriteStart

According to Toni Schneider, a Partner at True Ventures, and a Team-Lead at Automattic, boundaryless teams confer a real advantage; “You can hire great people wherever you find them: Once your company is untethered from one physical location, your pool of available job applicants becomes the entire world.

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All GMV is not created equal

A Crowded Space

Weak marketplaces suffer from disintermediation, pricing pressure, and destructive competition. At oDesk, we started with a 50%+ take rate but quickly lowered that to 30% and then 10% as we became more self-service and also wanted to lock up the market and prevent any disintermediation. This is why productivity matters so much!

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9 Real Estate Marketing Strategies to Expand Your Business

Up and Running

How to Do Your Own PR If You Can’t Afford to Hire an Agency. If you are prompt in responding, it adds to your credibility and reputation. Disintermediation refers to the mindset where customers wonder whether they really need a real estate agent or not. Banners, Signs, and More: Our Top Picks for Offline Marketing Materials.

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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

Urs Cete, the Head of Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments , notes, “If you think you can provide just money, you will be disintermediated.”. Protecting one’s reputation is incredibly important for any investor, whether independent or corporate. Entrepreneurs today expect more than just capital from their investors.

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Artificial Intelligence: Implications On Marketing, Analytics, And You

Occam's Razor

Some companies, some of the times truly want strategic questions answered, and they hire a small platoon of Analysis Ninjas. The current crop of Analytics tools are getting better and better at the known knowns , the process of disintermediation of the humans doing that work is only going to accelerate… And then that work will disappear.