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Greatly Improve Your Real Estate Business By Using Blockchain Technology

YoungUpstarts

By using a decentralized distributed ledger, people feel a lot more secure than with the centralized method. Consumers today are expecting a lot more from businesses; they’re demanding transparency, eco-consciousness, disintermediation, as well as upfront and fair pricing. Minimizing the Use of Physical Paper Trails.

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Disintermediation - It's a B h.

A Crowded Space

Every marketplace deals with disintermediation: oDesk, eBay, Airbnb, CustomMade, and Etsy. This is known as disintermediation. . From Wikipedia: In economics, disintermediation is the removal of intermediaries in a supply chain: “cutting out the middleman”. . What causes disintermediation? . This is simple.

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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. The Known Unknowns are going to be a source of job security for the next two or three years (perhaps less on the Marketing side).

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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.”. For the fund, it is critical to demonstrate impact to secure its place in the corporation’s long-term priorities. Entrepreneurs today expect more than just capital from their investors.

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Fintech Companies Redesigning The Financial World

YoungUpstarts

The country has been standing out as a cyber security hub around the world. It has a very succinct and purposeful site and, in times of digital transformation in which themes such as blockchain, cloud computing, cyber security and virtual currencies are high, it makes for a startup that, without a doubt, in worth keeping on the radar.

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When it Comes to Venture Capital, Do Like Warren Does

Growthink Blog

venture funds - and with so many of them pursuing similar deal sourcing strategies and approaches - it has become extremely difficult for VCs to find and secure high potential, well priced deals. With now over one thousand active U.S.

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Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That's Never - AgileVC

Agile VC

online, over the phone), but that will only happen if Visa/MC accept these systems as having comparable security and choose to create lower interchange categories for these card capture mediums. Also some of the mobile banking players are considering to build a parallel network that would disintermediate the card associations.

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