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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Up and Running

AUGUST 17, 2016

For example, customers in the San Francisco bay area might require internet-based marketing, whereas customers in a rural area might require a different approach. Most successful real estate agents generate several deals through referrals from previous customers. A customer referral is most valued by a new buyer or seller.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Access to the corporate investor’s ecosystem can open up great opportunities from technology validation to customer and partner development. Urs Cete, the Head of Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments , notes, “If you think you can provide just money, you will be disintermediated.”. Can the founders communicate well?

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 14, 2017

I recently wrote that, when it comes to customer relationships, most businesses should NOT emulate Amazon, since Amazon's margins are so thin. And for lifetime customer value, McDonalds. to canvas 300+ of the world’s biggest cities and thus make it so easy for Uber customers to buy transportation from the company. Warby Parker.

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 31, 2018

Jeff Bezos will bring his hyper focus on the end customer experience, and then how to apply technology to make that experience as quick, delightful, and consistent as possible. Through a re-examining and re-engineering of how our businesses utilize technology to deliver more value to our customers at a lower cost?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Everybody thought the real substance was going to come from B2B eCommerce players that would deliver “real value&# by disintermediating supply chains … blah, blah, blah. We instructed customers about how eCommerce was going to change their future. Make sure you focus on what matters – your customers.

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 30, 2017

rather than guessing how much credit to give each marketing strategy from hundreds of thousands of customer touch points, ML powered attribution can magically analyze every individual’s journey and automatically recommend shifts to your media budget! AND (are you sitting down?) This is not some future fantasy. Another example from last year.

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A Crowded Space

DECEMBER 8, 2014

3) The Bait and Switch Incentive - Many times sellers in a marketplace will list something for very low prices to ensure they show up in search results and attract customer interest. The fix: Don’t offer premium placement. . This leads to the inevitable bait and switch tactic. . Better to capture part of the transaction. .

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Venture Chronicles

APRIL 25, 2011

The last 2 years have been banner years for social CRM technology where the term itself went from being derided as being made up by vendors and analysts rather than defining an actual technology segment, to one of enthusiasm and excitement for how social technologies are changing the way companies engage their customers. Mobile CRM.

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VC Adventure

APRIL 11, 2011

The ability of Adhesive companies to insert themselves into the data stream, which existing marketplace players will enable and encourage this, and exactly who the ultimate beneficiaries are (not to mention who is being disintermediated) are key components to a company’s ability to gain rapid market share and scale. Margin Dynamics.

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VC Adventure

APRIL 11, 2011

The ability of Adhesive companies to insert themselves into the data stream, which existing marketplace players will enable and encourage this, and exactly who the ultimate beneficiaries are (not to mention who is being disintermediated) are key components to a company’s ability to gain rapid market share and scale. Margin Dynamics.

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Rob Go

JANUARY 21, 2016

As a result however, these companies don’t control a lot of the dimensions of what convenience might mean for a customer. M arketplace businesses are the classic example of this because they disintermediate the supply chain and offer a more free exchange of products between buyers and sellers.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2012

The Top 10 Reasons your Home Page Video fails at Converting Customers – [link]. Another industry being disintermediated by technology: Gaming Faces Its Archenemy: Financial Reality – [link]. The Top 10 Reasons your Home Page Video fails at Converting Customers – [link]. ” – [link].

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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. Do sellers get close to 100% of items sold?

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Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

If massively succesful, Isis might disintermediate the companies that manufacturer plastic payment cards and perhaps the companies that make mag stripe hardware (e.g. Like anyone else, they are looking to own the customer data and offer smart loyalty programs. Is that it? Not really. This is the same problem that LevelUp is facing.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 8, 2013

The first section reveals that the sales profession hasn’t vanished into thin air despite the “disintermediating” propensities of the Internet. Leveraging on the power of information asymmetry in the past, sales folks could conceal vital information from customers and gain the upper hand (hence the saying caveat emptor ).

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

And so, the titans have to figure out a way to license new content, or pay for access to get customers. There is disintermediation going on. They all want access to the digital consumer: search, display, video, social, and commerce. The incumbents are the “gatekeepers,” either partners or enemies.

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Quite simply, the digital, mobile, and Internet revolutions are transforming the way customers access financial products and services of all types, and across all consumer and business sectors. What does financial disintermediation really mean? How is the real / impactful is the world of mobile payments and where is it going?

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

You may actually end up clicking to navigate and become a customer of that local business, but there won’t be any attribution to the website, right? I think I was taking the customer experience first point of view, which is an argument, but you’re right. Neil Crist: Without question. Because those have a factor as well.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 2, 2012

Liberatingly, crowdfunding will allow smaller companies to simply bypass and disintermediate these broken financial sources altogether.

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thebarefootvc

OCTOBER 25, 2015

I personally don’t view this as a binary answer – I do believe that banks have been slow to adapt to changing customer needs particularly in light of the 2008 financial crash. Banks have also shown that they have been unable to protect customer data while they continue to provide services irrelevant to the millennial generation.

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thebarefootvc

OCTOBER 25, 2015

I personally don’t view this as a binary answer – I do believe that banks have been slow to adapt to changing customer needs particularly in light of the 2008 financial crash. Banks have also shown that they have been unable to protect customer data while they continue to provide services irrelevant to the millennial generation.

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