YoungUpstarts

JUNE 3, 2015

A new report from Forrester Research called “Death of a B2B Salesman,” predicts that one million U.S. B2B salespeople will lose their jobs to self-service e-commerce by 2020. Fears over technology stealing sales jobs is nothing new, it happened following the advent of both the phone and Internet. Marketing Disintermediation.

B2B 100

B2B Technology Cofounder Technical Cofounder 100

View from Seed

JULY 31, 2014

We’ve been remarkably consistent on this dimension as well: five of the recent 13 investments were B2C, five were B2B, and three you could categorize as B2B2C. The internet continues the disintermediation of content creation. BUSINESS-FOCUSED (B2B). Network Effect B2B. Empowering Content Creators.

Seed Stage 272

Seed Stage B2C Technical Review Disintermediation 272

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. B2B marketplaces. We’ve been pitched the promise that “we’re going to replace the broker” by B2B marketplace builders many times.

Disintermediation 110

Disintermediation B2B Differentiation Aggregator 110

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.

South Africa 310

South Africa Europe Disintermediation Poland 310

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.

Disintermediation 59

Disintermediation Business Model B2B Revenue 59

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?

Mobile 250

Mobile Disintermediation SMS Government 250