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What Makes an Ideal Leader in a Startup Tech Company?

ReadWriteStart

In the startup world, things change almost every day; you’ll have to worry about changing consumer attitudes, new competitors, disintermediating technology and constantly emerging information. Remaining adaptable in the face of all these evolving variables is the only way to keep your business afloat.

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What Is a Business Model? Business Models Explained

Up and Running

An advertising business model is sometimes combined with a crowdsourcing model where you get your content for free from users instead of paying content creators to develop content. Examples: Threadless, YouTube, P&G Connect and Develop, Cuusoo. Disintermediation. Examples: CBS, The New York Times, YouTube.

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6 Reasons Why Technology Won’t Kill B2B Salespeople

YoungUpstarts

Marketing Disintermediation. Ultimately, when large amounts of money are involved in B2B purchases, buyers want to deal directly with a human being to develop a relationship, perhaps negotiate and to get certain assurances. Buyers increasingly expect customized solutions.

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FLoC: Google’s Plan to Kill Off Third-Party Cookies

ConversionXL

The question is: Can Google develop a new system to keep ad buyers buying if users are anonymous? As Schiff concurs, this is “an opportunity for publishers that have become disintermediated from their visitors due to too many middlemen to try and take control of their destiny again.”. Ad platforms will keep selling inventory.

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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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Twitter Link Roundup #60 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

The great RockMelt social disintermediation – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. iPhone/iPad have 51% developer mkt share. Business plans for entrepreneurs: the three ‘Rs’ – Part I – [link]. Yes, bacon-flavored soda.

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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.