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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]. Mike Samson, Co-Founder of @crowdSPRING on Community Building & NO!SPEC 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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Where are the opportunities for the next venture-scale marketplace business?

Version One Ventures

In addition, there are opportunities to build a marketplace around communities that are passionate about a specific product category, i.e. GOAT for sneakers. 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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A Critical, but Ignored Metric for Marketplaces

A Crowded Space

They will not care much about their online reputation, they will not drive turnaround times lower, and they will be disintermediation risks. They won’t open your emails, they won’t participate in your community forums, they won’t give you product feedback, and they won’t be telling all their friends about the platform.

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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

In either case, corporations have to set up their investment vehicles so that the venture capital community sees them as serious players. Urs Cete, the Head of Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments , notes, “If you think you can provide just money, you will be disintermediated.”. They invest alongside financial VCs.

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Social CRM at the Crossroads

Venture Chronicles

Community Platforms. The evolution of business is all about the reduction of latency and disintermediation through technology, as in the elimination of human action. We have reached a point of disintermediation where we no longer even want to go to them, we expect that a tweet will be responded to substantively in a matter of minutes.

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Growthink Innovation Series: FinTech

Growthink Blog

Q2 empowers community-focused banks and credit unions with digital banking solutions that help them "scale smart and grow beyond" with retail and commercial account holders. What does financial disintermediation really mean? Since being founded in 1998 LendingTree has facilitated more than 32 million loan requests.

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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. There have been some test done within the local search community that’s starting to prove out that. I would relate a lot of what link building is in a local context is around community building, right?

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