View from Seed

JULY 31, 2014

The internet continues the disintermediation of content creation. These two marketing and publishing platforms, respectively, allow for a more intimate relationship between creators and their audience. Network Effect B2B. Most often, when people talk about “network effects,” they’re referring to consumer-facing startups.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The great RockMelt social disintermediation – [link]. Lessons Learned From Helping Over 150 Startups With Marketing Part 1 – [link]. Who’s on first? – [link].

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Version One Ventures

JULY 19, 2018

We love their network effects and continue to invest in them. With Amazon capturing nearly 50% of US e-commerce market , it may seem that there isn’t much room for a new marketplace focused on products. Here’s a question that we have been getting a lot lately: Do you still invest in marketplaces? . The answer is YES!

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 2, 2012

While the crowdfunding portion of the bill still needs to go through SEC rule-making, the die is clearly cast that a whole new social networking – based world of start-up and small business investing and financing is coming fast upon us. Yes, financial market change for the far better is coming.

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thebarefootvc

OCTOBER 25, 2015

Last week, I spoke at The Economist’s Buttonwood Gathering in NYC about how emerging markets (and Africa in particular) are leapfrogging innovation in the financial services sector. billion unbanked adults (half of the world’s adult population). employ 60K people in 11 countries.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Also you get to better insulate yourself from the competition and ups and downs of a particular local job market, and you’ll automatically get better coverage of multiple time zones and languages when your team is more distributed.” And as they do so, the demand for high-quality engineering talent is going up exponentially.

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thebarefootvc

OCTOBER 25, 2015

Last week, I spoke at The Economist’s Buttonwood Gathering in NYC about how emerging markets (and Africa in particular) are leapfrogging innovation in the financial services sector. billion unbanked adults (half of the world’s adult population). employ 60K people in 11 countries.

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