Up and Running
OCTOBER 11, 2017
Customers need to want what you are selling and your product needs to solve a real problem. But, ensuring that your product fits the needs of the market is only one part of starting a successful business. It’s an explanation of how you deliver value to your customers at an appropriate cost. Disintermediation.
thebarefootvc
JANUARY 15, 2020
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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David Teten
SEPTEMBER 6, 2015
Urs Cete, the Head of Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments , notes, “If you think you can provide just money, you will be disintermediated.”. It comes as no surprise as technology today enables companies to prove product-market fit much earlier in their lifecycles. They are making substantial exits and are not just cost centers.
Rob Go
JANUARY 21, 2016
These are companies that offer consumers a product or service (or both) that they are paid for (as opposed to consumer audience businesses that are monetized through advertising). The product or service is better than what else is out there. One very broad category of companies are what I’d call consumer transactional businesses.
crowdSPRING Blog
OCTOBER 11, 2012
Twitter: It’s time for patent trolls to bear the costs of frivolous lawsuits – [link]. Another industry being disintermediated by technology: Gaming Faces Its Archenemy: Financial Reality – [link]. Better Product Pages: Turn Visitors Into Customers – [link]. Does VC (fund size) matter? – [link].
Agile VC
JUNE 12, 2012
At first glance, mobile payments seem like a no brainer… consumers [seemingly] want the convenience of paying with a phone rather than cash or credit card, merchants dislike the cost associated with accepting credit cards, and mobile ecosystem players (e.g. The product seemingly never evolved to what it could have been.
A Crowded Space
APRIL 11, 2016
Weak marketplaces suffer from disintermediation, pricing pressure, and destructive competition. At oDesk, we started with a 50%+ take rate but quickly lowered that to 30% and then 10% as we became more self-service and also wanted to lock up the market and prevent any disintermediation. This is why productivity matters so much!
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