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Why Publishers Will Tell You Anything But The Truth

YoungUpstarts

As the publishing industry gathers in New York for its annual trade show, BookExpo America , they’re discussing everything except the one piece of information authors crave: how many books they actually sell. Business professors call this phenomenon “disintermediation,” the elimination of the middleman. By Michael Levin.

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6 Reasons Why Technology Won’t Kill B2B Salespeople

YoungUpstarts

Amidst fear and speculation, the facts demonstrate that B2B businesses across North America are making strategic investments to staff their sales department with high-achieving, technologically savvy salespeople to bridge the gap between buyers and sellers that technology cannot fill. Marketing Disintermediation.

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Why I love the Care Space

A Crowded Space

America is aging. This may make disintermediation a big challenge. Making this process easy and convenient should be enough to prevent disintermediation. In case you haven’t been paying attention. Some big challenges. 3) Value in guaranteed work / payments.

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Artificial Intelligence: Implications On Marketing, Analytics, And You

Occam's Razor

A large hotel chain wanted to solve this problem: 90k travelers are stranded every day in America across 5,145 airports. 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.

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Fintech Companies Redesigning The Financial World

YoungUpstarts

However, the country is doing exceptionally well within this sector – a good example was the prominence given this year by the biggest Banking Technology event in Latin America, CIAB, which dedicated space and special programming to the topic.

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Twitter Link Roundup #149 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Silicon Valley’s loosening grip: Does the road to tech’s future run through Middle America? Another industry being disintermediated by technology: Gaming Faces Its Archenemy: Financial Reality – [link]. Marissa Mayer’s 9 Principles of Innovation | Fast Company – [link]. Is your market actually big? – [link].

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Winners and Losers in the Coming Crowdfunding World

Growthink Blog

500 list of America's fastest growing companies - are home to the most talented, hardworking, and just nose to the grindstone, money making and job creating entrepreneurs and executives in the world. Liberatingly, crowdfunding will allow smaller companies to simply bypass and disintermediate these broken financial sources altogether.