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

Both Sides of the Table

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. I sat next to Irwin Jacobs (founder of Qualcomm) on a bus ride. So journalists were looking for a new story to tell.

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

Agile VC

Both are building on top of the existing credit card infrastructure because as Swipely Founder/CEO Angus Davis points out, millions of people are walking around with a mobile payment device in their pocket… it’s called a credit card. Though it has happened elsewhere and usually in places where there was a need (Rural Africa).

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