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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

At Virgin Mobile USA, Mari led early initiatives in mobile commerce, social networking and advertising. Corporate VCs open the door to their parent companies and are well networked in their industries. Corporate VC networks extend beyond their own parent companies. Mari Holds a B.A. So how do you get a warm intro?

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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. While we all work to do that (and it really is your problem to solve primarily and not a vendor’s), it is important to realize that each marketing channel has gotten so much more advanced in being able to identify a singular human on it’s own platform.

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All GMV is not created equal

A Crowded Space

High-quality marketplaces are constantly building bigger moats and strengthening their network effects. Weak marketplaces suffer from disintermediation, pricing pressure, and destructive competition. Each of these factors can contribute to stronger network effects and help a marketplace build enduring value.

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Are Banks the Next Dinosaurs?

thebarefootvc

We just have to look at emerging markets that don’t have financial infrastructure in place to see how nonbank entities are utilizing mobile connectivity, advanced data analytics and social channels to provide financial services to 2.5 billion unbanked adults (half of the world’s adult population).

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Are Banks the Next Dinosaurs?

thebarefootvc

We just have to look at emerging markets that don’t have financial infrastructure in place to see how nonbank entities are utilizing mobile connectivity, advanced data analytics and social channels to provide financial services to 2.5 billion unbanked adults (half of the world’s adult population).