crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

The great RockMelt social disintermediation – [link]. Business plans for entrepreneurs: the three ‘Rs’ – Part I – [link]. Important insight – Harsh Realities From 500 Startups Founders – [link]. What I Wish I Knew Before I Started My Company – [link]. Getting Your Startup Started With Payments – [link].

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Tonight I was reading a good blog post ( here ) from Sean Powers with Alistair Croll on preparing yourself for the TC50 “bump” – the rise in traffic that a company gets from presenting at TechCrunch 50. Write a blog post or a journal about how you feel while you’re there. So journalists were looking for a new story to tell.

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2017

For Aetna, the existential fear that in a world of big data, predictive analytics, and financial disintermediation of why do big insurance companies like them need to exist at all anymore. For CVS , the fear of Amazon coming into their market and squeezing them , as they have done to so many others , so hard that margins just evaporate.

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2016

What does financial disintermediation really mean? On the webinar, the panelists answer questions including the following: Where are (and will be) the biggest areas of financial industry disruption and change and why? How is the real / impactful is the world of mobile payments and where is it going?

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 30, 2017

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. Here’s the relevant excerpt from their blog post: How do we prepare for jobs that don’t yet exist?

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 31, 2018

Because it is one thing for healthcare industry incumbents like Aetna, Anthem, and Humana to "talk the talk" about reducing costs and improving value.but it is another thing entirely when they are forced to do so because of the existential threat of a “disintermediating” juggernaut like Amazon and friends represent here.

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aweissman.com

AUGUST 31, 2012

Then I recalled this blog post from University Ventures which wonders whether "colleges and universities are the next object of the Great Unbundling." They disintermediate incumbent industries but also do the same to any new attempts at re-aggregation? In other words, publishers and bookstores will be unbundled.

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 14, 2017

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. Very many companies have as their business model distributing / reselling, - i.e

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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. employ 60K people in 11 countries.

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VC Adventure

APRIL 11, 2011

Then Jason came up with the name “Adhesive&# which seemed to stick (that was bad, wasn’t it) and after a few months procrastinating I ended up writing up our thoughts on AdTech investing and posted them today over on the Foundry blog. Margin Dynamics.

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Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

If massively succesful, Isis might disintermediate the companies that manufacturer plastic payment cards and perhaps the companies that make mag stripe hardware (e.g. Also some of the mobile banking players are considering to build a parallel network that would disintermediate the card associations. Thanks for laying this out!

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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. employ 60K people in 11 countries.

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VC Adventure

APRIL 11, 2011

Then Jason came up with the name “Adhesive” which seemed to stick (that was bad, wasn’t it) and after a few months procrastinating I ended up writing up our thoughts on AdTech investing and posted them today over on the Foundry blog. Margin Dynamics.

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Rob Go

JANUARY 21, 2016

M arketplace businesses are the classic example of this because they disintermediate the supply chain and offer a more free exchange of products between buyers and sellers.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

The disintermediation potential there in what’s happening today in certain verticals is absolutely a byproduct. If you go to moz.com/blog , you’ll see a link to the report. Neil Crist: Without question. I think I was taking the customer experience first point of view, which is an argument, but you’re right.

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