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Where are the opportunities for the next venture-scale marketplace business?

Version One Ventures

We love their network effects and continue to invest in them. This reminded me that it has been awhile since we’ve touched upon this topic on our blog. 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.

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Twitter Link Roundup #60 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

The great RockMelt social disintermediation – [link]. The 4G forgery – T-Mobile does not have a 4G network – [link]. Business plans for entrepreneurs: the three ‘Rs’ – Part I – [link]. Important insight – Harsh Realities From 500 Startups Founders – [link]. SPEC Campaign [link].

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Artificial Intelligence: Implications On Marketing, Analytics, And You

Occam's Razor

Most Deep Learning methods involve artificial neural networks, modeling how our bran works. 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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Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That's Never - AgileVC

Agile VC

They are fully fungible for hard currency through Safaricom’s network of retail partners for either the sender or recipient of an M-Pesa mobile payment. And at the end of the day it appears Isis will just be working with the existing credit card networks Visa, MC, Amex, & Discover. . Good luck to Ben.

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Growthink Innovation Series: FinTech

Growthink Blog

Crowdfunder is the equity crowdfunding leader for sourcing and funding high-growth ventures with a network of over 130,000 entrepreneurs and investors. What does financial disintermediation really mean? The panelists are: Mr. Rafe Furst , Co-Founder Crowdfunder. What happens to "cash" in this coming "cashless" society?

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The Great Fragmentation

aweissman.com

Then I recalled this blog post from University Ventures which wonders whether "colleges and universities are the next object of the Great Unbundling." What if the power of connected networks such as the Internet is that they unbundle all that came before them? In other words, publishers and bookstores will be unbundled.

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Transcript of What Local Businesses Need to Know About the State of Local SEO

Duct Tape Marketing

The disintermediation potential there in what’s happening today in certain verticals is absolutely a byproduct. John Jantsch: It’s networking, it is all it is, right? If you go to moz.com/blog , you’ll see a link to the report. Neil Crist: Without question. It’s a very grassroots activity. Absolutely.

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