The Equity Kicker

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Disintermediation is one of the oldest stories of the internet. We’ve seen Betfair cut the middleman out of sports bets for a reasonable chunk of the football and horseracing gambling market in the UK but I can’t think of another large business that has disintermediated a consumer market.

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Up and Running

JUNE 14, 2010

About three years ago I attended a Web 2.0 This was before the great recession, but in the middle of the explosion of web apps and social media. One thing that came up repeatedly, then, was the impact of steeply declining web development costs on professional investment. This was a problem for a few, and an opportunity for many.

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thebarefootvc

JANUARY 15, 2020

acquisition of Plaid by Visa, in a highly competitive deal, shows how even the largest incumbents are feeling pressure to innovate and need to think outside of their current business models. The recently announced $5.3B No entity is immune to technology disruption.

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 14, 2017

Warby manages this killer combination of moderate prices and solid margins through supply chain efficiencies on the back end and on the front end picture perfect web branding and “white glove” customer service. How to emulate this great business? Very many companies have as their business model distributing / reselling, - i.e

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Venture Chronicles

APRIL 25, 2011

The evolution of business is all about the reduction of latency and disintermediation through technology, as in the elimination of human action. We went from calling businesses during business hours, or visiting a location, to extended and 24/7 call centers and then email and then the web.

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Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

That sounds like a lot of responsibility for someone fresh out of undergrad as I was then, but in reality both of these were peripheral elements of PayPal’s core web-based payment product which was still heavily concentrated on eBay auctions at the time. So not a new store of value and this is basically scenario #1 described above.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

But as of late, web 2.0 Companies from a vast variety of background who have never compete with each other, are now converging business models and are all competing. There is disintermediation going on. Interactions have changed fundamentally. I call it ‘science-fied.’ The budget for video media is bigger than it seems.

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