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4 Well-Known Companies to Emulate

Growthink Blog

Very many companies have as their business model distributing / reselling, - i.e These kinds of businesses are under severe “disintermediation” threat, as technology allows buyers and sellers to connect directly with each other, and thus bypass “middlemen” like Grainger. For profitable reselling, Grainger.

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

Agile VC

It’s conceptually no different from the early days of Western Union’s original payments business when people “wired” money to one another at each end of a physical distribution network. Also some of the mobile banking players are considering to build a parallel network that would disintermediate the card associations.

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