A Crowded Space

MARCH 13, 2012

Every marketplace deals with disintermediation: oDesk, eBay, Airbnb, CustomMade, and Etsy. This is known as disintermediation. . From Wikipedia: In economics, disintermediation is the removal of intermediaries in a supply chain: “cutting out the middleman”. . What causes disintermediation? . This is simple.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

These user groups could come from a “user list,” “remarketing list,” “custom audience,” or “behavioral market segment.” That temporal gap protects users against “timing attacks”—an ad network seeing both requests come in at the same time and using that timing to match contextual data with interest data. Featured Image Source.

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A Crowded Space

APRIL 11, 2016

Weak marketplaces suffer from disintermediation, pricing pressure, and destructive competition. These factors tend to revolve around the type, size, quality, and frequency of matching that happens in a marketplace as well as the nature of the goods or services involved. This comes back to the value of the match.

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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. Either you need some structural cost advantage that others can’t match, or you need to be generating revenue in a very different way that subsidizes your lower product margins.

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