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A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Our Recent Seed-Stage VC Investments

View from Seed

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 continues the disintermediation of content creation. The “Internet of Things”. Empowering Content Creators.

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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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6 Reasons Why Technology Won’t Kill B2B Salespeople

YoungUpstarts

Fears over technology stealing sales jobs is nothing new, it happened following the advent of both the phone and Internet. Marketing Disintermediation. B2B salespeople will lose their jobs to self-service e-commerce by 2020.

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The Boundaryless Era: the Time for Distributed Teams

ReadWriteStart

In many places, mobile data and hardwired internet were still billed based upon usage. Today, even developing countries have fast wired internet. The spread of high-speed internet has uncoupled location from opportunity. Reason Two: Now, Communication and Collaboration tools for Distributed teams are mature enough.

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FLoC: Google’s Plan to Kill Off Third-Party Cookies

ConversionXL

Decisions that affect Chrome—with a nearly two-thirds market share —are decisions that affect the Internet, especially paid advertising. They aggregate far more of your clicks across the Internet and power the hyper-relevant ads you see (e.g., Users can block first-party cookies, but doing so often impacts the user experience (e.g.,

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Winners and Losers in the Coming Crowdfunding World

Growthink Blog

Liberatingly, crowdfunding will allow smaller companies to simply bypass and disintermediate these broken financial sources altogether.

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Twitter Link Roundup #149 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Another industry being disintermediated by technology: Gaming Faces Its Archenemy: Financial Reality – [link]. IAB Study: Ad-Supported Internet Responsible For 5.1 – [link]. Tech Companies Try, And Fail, To Inspire With Recent Commercials – [link]. Seth’s Blog: Cycle worse, cycle better – [link].