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What Makes an Ideal Leader in a Startup Tech Company?

ReadWriteStart

They listen to customers, allowing them to present a better solution to them when selling. In the startup world, things change almost every day; you’ll have to worry about changing consumer attitudes, new competitors, disintermediating technology and constantly emerging information. Listening is beneficial in a number of ways.

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What Is a Business Model? Business Models Explained

Up and Running

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. A reverse auction business model turns auctions upside down and has sellers present their lowest prices to buyers.

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

ConversionXL

If a FLoC is too small, that presents both data privacy issues as well as potential performance issues,” continues Evans. Presently, auctions take place on ad network servers—with all the accumulated data about user behavior and direct access to platforms’ bidding algorithms. This is the tension. “If Still, it’s a big change.

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Angels Rush in Where VC Fear to Tread

Up and Running

The article suggests – and we agree – that angels are disintermediating traditional VCs in many cases. Of those, roughly 20% are invited to present to the club, and only about 15% of those get funded. He says, summarizing the Giga Om post: Unlike traditional VCs, super angels actively invest in seed stage companies.

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The Most Interesting Part of CVS & Aetna

Growthink Blog

For Aetna, the existential fear that in a world of big data, predictive analytics, and financial disintermediation of why do big insurance companies like them need to exist at all anymore. These kinds of fears are present in the minds of every thoughtful and forward thinking business leader.

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Don’t drink your own Kool-Aid (surviving TC50)

Both Sides of the Table

Tonight I was reading a good blog post ( here ) from Sean Powers with Alistair Croll on preparing yourself for the TC50 “bump” – the rise in traffic that a company gets from presenting at TechCrunch 50. If you need VC, no better time than the present. So journalists were looking for a new story to tell. Listen to the data.

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Artificial Intelligence: Implications On Marketing, Analytics, And You

Occam's Razor

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. Maurice Conti presents a cluster of ideas that are in the play today that demonstrate the incredible inventions of intuitive AI.