crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

The great RockMelt social disintermediation – [link]. The 4G forgery – T-Mobile does not have a 4G network – [link]. By 2015 ebooks will triple to $3 billion industry – [link]. Business plans for entrepreneurs: the three ‘Rs’ – Part I – [link]. 40 People Who Changed The Internet – [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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Occam's Razor

MARCH 30, 2017

Yes, a silo but so much better than 2015. 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. Why can’t we automate them and infuse them with intelligence?

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thebarefootvc

OCTOBER 25, 2015

The most documented example of this is M-Pesa’s mobile money platform in Kenya, which I have written about a few times on this blog, including in my thesis piece When Third is First. Over 30% have used mobile banking in the past month, a mode of banking that is currently more efficient in Nigeria than it is in the United States.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

But the most significant changes from 2004 to today include the rise of fast mobile networks and broadband, breakthroughs in communications technology, and a shift towards decentralizing educational opportunities. In many places, mobile data and hardwired internet were still billed based upon usage.

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thebarefootvc

OCTOBER 25, 2015

The most documented example of this is M-Pesa’s mobile money platform in Kenya, which I have written about a few times on this blog, including in my thesis piece When Third is First. Over 30% have used mobile banking in the past month, a mode of banking that is currently more efficient in Nigeria than it is in the United States.

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