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What Is a Business Model? Business Models Explained

Up and Running

It’s an explanation of how you deliver value to your customers at an appropriate cost. These tools let entrepreneurs experiment, test, and, well, model different ways that they could structure their costs and revenue streams. A successful business model just needs to collect more money from customers than it costs to make the product.

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6 Reasons Why Technology Won’t Kill B2B Salespeople

YoungUpstarts

Marketing Disintermediation. High cost of sales automation and digital marketing. Senior executives who are determined replace their sales division in order to save money should understand that the cost of leveraging sales automation and digital marketing technology is actually very high.

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Why Publishers Will Tell You Anything But The Truth

YoungUpstarts

Since writers remain a necessary evil to publishers, their strategy has been to commoditize writing and thus drive down the cost of getting a book written. Business professors call this phenomenon “disintermediation,” the elimination of the middleman. The stigma of self-publishing is rapidly disappearing.

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Angels Rush in Where VC Fear to Tread

Up and Running

One thing that came up repeatedly, then, was the impact of steeply declining web development costs on professional investment. The article suggests – and we agree – that angels are disintermediating traditional VCs in many cases. They also invest lower amounts of money than traditional VCs, between $25k-$250k.

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The Final Edition

thebarefootvc

I had alluded to this in a piece I wrote in 2015 – Are Banks the Next Dinosaurs?: “Twenty years from now, we will see disintermediation of banks, and millenials will no longer recognize the current banking system as they will receive financial services from a number of new entrants in the technology sector.

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Why I love the Care Space

A Crowded Space

That should be way more than enough to cover acquisition costs. . I believe that a mobile-first service leveraging good logistics and workflow could drive down the overall cost while at the same time paying the best caregivers more money and offering higher utilization. This may make disintermediation a big challenge.

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The Biggest & Boldest Undertaking of 2018

Growthink Blog

Well, all of us - frustrated by always rising healthcare costs and its way too often uneven and mediocre quality - should applaud these innovators and root for their success. Through a re-examining and re-engineering of how our businesses utilize technology to deliver more value to our customers at a lower cost?