Up and Running

JUNE 14, 2010

The article suggests – and we agree – that angels are disintermediating traditional VCs in many cases. He says, summarizing the Giga Om post: Unlike traditional VCs, super angels actively invest in seed stage companies. They also invest lower amounts of money than traditional VCs, between $25k-$250k.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

The technological breakthrough, announced in 2017 , is the “federated” component—the ability to train a machine learning model without a centralized repository of data: It works like this: your device downloads the current model, improves it by learning from data on your phone, and then summarizes the changes as a small focused update.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 2, 2012

To envision this, visit (or revisit) Kickstarter.com, and browse through the incredible diversity of cause and passion - based projects, from charitable to design to artistic to technological, crowd funded on a donations basis on the site.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

The great RockMelt social disintermediation – [link]. Technology expected in homes in 10 years – Scientists unveil moving 3D holograms – [link]. Business plans for entrepreneurs: the three ‘Rs’ – Part I – [link]. Important insight – Harsh Realities From 500 Startups Founders – [link]. – [link].

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Version One Ventures

JULY 19, 2018

At Version One, we are more inclined to invest in businesses where the services are as commoditized as products so there isn’t supplier preference nor disintermediation. The broker, after all, represents an inefficiency that one can possibly eliminate with technology. Not every service category is right for becoming the “Uber for X.”

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Another industry being disintermediated by technology: Gaming Faces Its Archenemy: Financial Reality – [link]. Tech Companies Try, And Fail, To Inspire With Recent Commercials – [link]. Seth’s Blog: Cycle worse, cycle better – [link]. Why We’ll Never Stop Talking About Steve Jobs – [link].

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thebarefootvc

JANUARY 15, 2020

I had alluded to this in a piece I wrote in 2015 – Are Banks the Next Dinosaurs?: “Twenty years from now, we will see disintermediation of banks, and millenials will no longer recognize the current banking system as they will receive financial services from a number of new entrants in the technology sector.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Access to the corporate investor’s ecosystem can open up great opportunities from technology validation to customer and partner development. Urs Cete, the Head of Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments , notes, “If you think you can provide just money, you will be disintermediated.”. Some corporate VCs even have seed funds.

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 31, 2018

Jeff Bezos will bring his hyper focus on the end customer experience, and then how to apply technology to make that experience as quick, delightful, and consistent as possible. Through a re-examining and re-engineering of how our businesses utilize technology to deliver more value to our customers at a lower cost?

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2016

[To listen to a recording of the webinar, Click Here ] On this recorded webinar, the Growthink Innovation Series turns to the transformative world of financial technology. What does financial disintermediation really mean? According to PWC, within the next 3-5 years, cumulative investment in FinTech globally could exceed $150 billion.

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2017

For CVS and Aetna, theirs is a bold strategic stroke to build a more efficient healthcare delivery model in sync with our information economy and technological age. a bare minimum simply having a viable alternative to the so complex, byzantine, bloated, institutionalized system that is modern healthcare has to be an unambiguously good thing.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

We had scrambled to get a product to market, built our first website, rapidly hired a technology team, raised our seed round of capital ($1.5 Everybody thought the real substance was going to come from B2B eCommerce players that would deliver “real value&# by disintermediating supply chains … blah, blah, blah.

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 14, 2017

And in so doing they created a powerful recurring revenue business model based as much on their organizational design as on their marketing and technology prowess. Franchising is a great “old school” way of accomplishing this and Uber the ultimate 21st century technological way to do so.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

The weapon which they can utilize are: software, devices, technology around location, cloud computing, payments, and AI. There is disintermediation going on. But players from a variety of different sectors are interested in media, marketing, technology, commerce, networking, and this relates to a huge opportunity in digital media.

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thebarefootvc

OCTOBER 25, 2015

Twenty years from now, we will see disintermediation of banks, and millenials will no longer recognize the current banking system as they will receive financial services from a number of new entrants in the technology sector. employ 60K people in 11 countries.

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 30, 2017

Our current red flags are sourced from what human means today, what works means today, what our relationship with technology means today. Even at his young age he programs in Java, he has learned Perl, JavaScript, and other web technologies. Humans push forward. It is impossible to imagine what 2057 will look like. The Tactical.

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VC Adventure

APRIL 11, 2011

Most of our AdTech investments would be labeled “glue&# (they were all connecting or intermediary technologies – just applied to online advertising). Instead, we have included these companies in our Glue theme since each company is an intermediary technology – although in each case applied to AdTech. Margin Dynamics.

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Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

It’s not for a lack of technological effort from both startups and huge companies in all of mobile payments’ incarnations – SMS, mobile web, native apps, NFC, etc. But nearly everyone has wrongly placed emphasis on the mobile technology part and not on the payments aspect. Chris Chaten. Any thoughts on Isis?

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thebarefootvc

OCTOBER 25, 2015

Twenty years from now, we will see disintermediation of banks, and millenials will no longer recognize the current banking system as they will receive financial services from a number of new entrants in the technology sector. employ 60K people in 11 countries.

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Venture Chronicles

APRIL 25, 2011

The last 2 years have been banner years for social CRM technology where the term itself went from being derided as being made up by vendors and analysts rather than defining an actual technology segment, to one of enthusiasm and excitement for how social technologies are changing the way companies engage their customers.

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VC Adventure

APRIL 11, 2011

Most of our AdTech investments would be labeled “glue” (they were all connecting or intermediary technologies – just applied to online advertising). Instead, we have included these companies in our Glue theme since each company is an intermediary technology – although in each case applied to AdTech.

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Rob Go

JANUARY 21, 2016

M arketplace businesses are the classic example of this because they disintermediate the supply chain and offer a more free exchange of products between buyers and sellers. You will probably need near perfect execution, some sort of product or technological breakthrough, great market timing, and a lot of luck. Kind of like Tesla.

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