What does financial disintermediation really mean? [To listen to a recording of the webinar, Click Here ] On this recorded webinar, the Growthink Innovation Series turns to the transformative world of financial technology. According to PWC, within the next 3-5 years, cumulative investment in FinTech globally could exceed $150 billion. MORE
In my opinion, terminology, such as disintermediation, sweet spot, ASP, best of breed, and win-win should be outlawed for the next 100 years. Sometimes I find that the company's founder is so far 'outside the box' that they 'stretch the envelope.' As an angel investor, I review more than 500 business plans each year. Unfortunately, many are so riddled with economy lingo, business jargon and clichés, that they do not communicate any real business value. MORE
That being said, Mike brings up a couple of very critical points that will lead this shift towards a new generation of enterprise technology leaders: Disintermediation of IT. With Enhatch, we have melded these trends of verticalization and disintermediation. MORE
Those channels have attempted to disintermediate the traditional relationships that existed between, say, Inc. Small businesses take note: It''s no longer about your products and services. It''s about giving your customers what they want and need--and not old-fashioned marketing. MORE
Travel agents, stock brokers, and record stores - Technology, specifically the Internet, has disintermediated and disrupted entire industries. Technology is all about productivity. Getting more things done, faster, cheaper, with fewer people. This has been called the "Jobless Recovery". MORE
I hope they are thinking hard about it, rather than fearing being disintermediated by Alexa. We all know that Sonos is finally working on an Alexa integration. As I sit here listening to Atom Heart Mother on my Alexa (via “Alexa, play Pink Floyd’s album Atom Heart Mother”), I so badly want it to play throughout my house on our Sonos, rather than just on my desk via Alexa. MORE
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. One very broad category of companies are what I’d call consumer transactional businesses. MORE
The evolution of business is all about the reduction of latency and disintermediation through technology, as in the elimination of human action. We have reached a point of disintermediation where we no longer even want to go to them, we expect that a tweet will be responded to substantively in a matter of minutes. MORE
There is disintermediation going on. For those of you who don’t know Terence Kawaja, he is one of the most influential (and funny) social media advisors around, and is also very experienced at investment banking. MORE
Analyzing in a general way, what appears with much emphasis is a disintermediation movement, in particular the banks. by Caroline Capitani, VP of Business Innovation of ilegra. MORE
These kinds of businesses are under severe “disintermediation” threat, as technology allows buyers and sellers to connect directly with each other, and thus bypass “middlemen” like Grainger. MORE
The current crop of Analytics tools are getting better and better at the known knowns , the process of disintermediation of the humans doing that work is only going to accelerate… And then that work will disappear. A rare post today. MORE
They will not care much about their online reputation, they will not drive turnaround times lower, and they will be disintermediation risks. In the press and on home pages across the web you see metrics like 100,000 expert freelancers or over a million sellers or “adding 3,000 new users per day.” ” Those all sound great, but they are irrelevant to the health of a marketplace company. MORE
Business professors call this phenomenon “disintermediation,” the elimination of the middleman. By Michael Levin. MORE
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. MORE
These high fees obviously eat away at returns, and more profoundly are in contrast to the “disintermediation spirit” so at the heart of modern technology investing. All of a sudden, it is boom time again for venture capital funds, with over $10.3 billion in fresh capital raised by 578 funds in the 1st quarter, up 36% from 2012. MORE
Disintermediation. Disintermediation is when you sidestep everyone in the supply chain and sell directly to consumers, allowing you to potentially lower costs to your customers and have a direct relationship them as well. Airbnb is a well-known example of the marketplace business model. MORE
Disintermediation is one of the oldest stories of the internet. We’ve seen Betfair cut the middleman out of sports bets for a reasonable chunk of the football and horseracing gambling market in the UK but I can’t think of another large business that has disintermediated a consumer market. The most obvious candidates for disintermediation are media publishing businesses. MORE
This may make disintermediation a big challenge. Making this process easy and convenient should be enough to prevent disintermediation. Startups are attacking just about every vertical. MORE
The article suggests – and we agree – that angels are disintermediating traditional VCs in many cases. About three years ago I attended a Web 2.0 conference at which a couple of professional venture capitalists and a couple of successful angel investors talked about trends. This was before the great recession, but in the middle of the explosion of web apps and social media. MORE
Marketing Disintermediation. by Eliot Burdett, co-founder and CEO of Peak Sales Recruiting. A new report from Forrester Research called “Death of a B2B Salesman,” predicts that one million U.S. B2B salespeople will lose their jobs to self-service e-commerce by 2020. MORE
The first section reveals that the sales profession hasn’t vanished into thin air despite the “disintermediating” propensities of the Internet. Do you know that 40% of our time at work is engaged in selling, even if we’re not in sales? MORE
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”. . MORE
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. Disintermediation - GMV is stronger if customers are effectively locked in. For marketplaces companies, GMV (gross merchandise value) is the number 1 metric that most focus on. MORE
They disintermediate incumbent industries but also do the same to any new attempts at re-aggregation? A few weeks ago my partner Albert Wenger wrote about Facebook being unbundled: "Facebook's Real Mobile Problem: Unbundling" where he opined that "mobile devices are doing to web services what web services did to print media: they unbundle." Then I recalled this blog post from University Ventures which wonders whether "colleges and universities are the next object of the Great Unbundling." MORE
The internet continues the disintermediation of content creation. Two weeks ago, my partners and I here at NextView Ventures announced our second fund. MORE
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. MORE
If massively succesful, Isis might disintermediate the companies that manufacturer plastic payment cards and perhaps the companies that make mag stripe hardware (e.g. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future. About Me. AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. MORE
Anyone can rise up and disintermediate existing players in any market. Immersive Web Yelp is one of the properties that online businesses need to manage. But be afraid. MORE
Disintermediation--Buyers will seek additional ways to go direct to providers and manufacturers, diminishing the need for and use of manufacturer reps, dealers, and distributors. What will the future bring for sales professionals? MORE
Disintermediation - The Internet disintermediated many markets, cutting out the middleman, or several layers of distribution. The Internet disintermediation has sharply reduced the need for jobs like travel agents, stock brokers, music stores, secretaries, admins, presentation graphics, MIS analysts. For more than 30 years businesses have invested in software technology with the promise of increased productivity and cost savings. MORE
Darren Herman , who is a thought leader in the ad planning world, recently published Disintermediation of Online Display Advertising ( Link to the PDF ) In which he recounts the early stages of online advertising and brings you up to speed in a clear and concise way. MORE
Disintermediation. tech startups gatekeepers disintermediation bureaucracy education government status quo businessbijan sabet: Gatekeepers : bijan : …So when people ask me what gets me excited, this is what I end up talking about a lot these days. Breaking the status quo and taking down the gatekeeper…. The breaking down of barriers. Direct to consumer. Peer-to-Peer. We are seeing this happen. MORE
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. This is part of my ongoing series “Start-up Lessons”. MORE
At Version One, we are more inclined to invest in businesses where the services are as commoditized as products so there isn’t supplier preference nor disintermediation. Here’s a question that we have been getting a lot lately: Do you still invest in marketplaces? . The answer is YES! We love their network effects and continue to invest in them. MORE
For Aetna, the existential fear that in a world of big data, predictive analytics, and financial disintermediation of why do big insurance companies like them need to exist at all anymore. CVS' proposed acquisition this week of health insurance giant Aetna is a big deal. MORE
The general direction is democratization of information and disintermediation of publishers. The bestselling author offers publishing advice--and insight into why his giving away his latest book for free. MORE
By Marylene Delbourg-Delphis @mddelphis. The Mesh, an old word meaning the “opening between the threads of a net&# got its technology flavor with the concept of mesh networking generally defined as “a type of networking wherein each node in the network may act as an independent router.&# MORE
The big news this week was the announcement that Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan were teaming up to form a completely new healthcare company. As in Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, and Jamie Dimon. What does this mean for healthcare as we know it? MORE
The Chronicle of Higher Education has a great piece on a self-appointed teacher who runs a one-man "academy" on YouTube: "The most popular educator on YouTube does not have a Ph.D. He has never. taught at a college or university. And he delivers all of his lectures. from a bedroom closet." Salman Kahn has recorded 1,400 10-minute lectures on a range of topics. Over 16 million people have watched his videos. The Khan Academy explicitly challenges many of higher-education's most. MORE
Disintermediation refers to the mindset where customers wonder whether they really need a real estate agent or not. Disintermediation marketing targets such customers to convince them of the value offered by a real estate professional. MORE
Also, if someone is paying a membership, there’s a good chance they’ll want to make some good connections in the marketplace, disintermediate, and then cancel the membership. . "Never, ever, think about something else when you should be thinking about the power of incentives." -Charlie Munger. Most marketplaces I know end up seeing some unexpected behavior from their users. It’s always critical to be examining the incentives of all users of the platform. MORE
Some are trying to disintermediate incumbents and thereby restructure large industries. There is generally a lot of enthusiasm in the startup world these days. But some observers worry that too many startups are working on “features” instead of world-changing ideas. MORE
Disintermediation Related Topics 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”. .
The Equity Kicker
OCTOBER 9, 2012
Disintermediation is one of the oldest stories of the internet. We’ve seen Betfair cut the middleman out of sports bets for a reasonable chunk of the football and horseracing gambling market in the UK but I can’t think of another large business that has disintermediated a consumer market. The most obvious candidates for disintermediation are media publishing businesses.
Ben Casnocha: The Blog
JUNE 8, 2010
The Chronicle of Higher Education has a great piece on a self-appointed teacher who runs a one-man "academy" on YouTube: "The most popular educator on YouTube does not have a Ph.D. He has never. taught at a college or university. And he delivers all of his lectures. from a bedroom closet." Salman Kahn has recorded 1,400 10-minute lectures on a range of topics. Over 16 million people have watched his videos. The Khan Academy explicitly challenges many of higher-education's most.
Grade A Entrepreneurs
JANUARY 3, 2011
By Marylene Delbourg-Delphis @mddelphis. The Mesh, an old word meaning the “opening between the threads of a net&# got its technology flavor with the concept of mesh networking generally defined as “a type of networking wherein each node in the network may act as an independent router.&#
Mark Birch
NOVEMBER 19, 2011
Disintermediation. tech startups gatekeepers disintermediation bureaucracy education government status quo businessbijan sabet: Gatekeepers : bijan : …So when people ask me what gets me excited, this is what I end up talking about a lot these days. Breaking the status quo and taking down the gatekeeper…. The breaking down of barriers. Direct to consumer. Peer-to-Peer. We are seeing this happen.
Feld Thoughts
MAY 8, 2017
I hope they are thinking hard about it, rather than fearing being disintermediated by Alexa. We all know that Sonos is finally working on an Alexa integration. As I sit here listening to Atom Heart Mother on my Alexa (via “Alexa, play Pink Floyd’s album Atom Heart Mother”), I so badly want it to play throughout my house on our Sonos, rather than just on my desk via Alexa.
View from Seed
JULY 31, 2014
The internet continues the disintermediation of content creation. Two weeks ago, my partners and I here at NextView Ventures announced our second fund.
Eric Friedman
MARCH 10, 2009
Darren Herman , who is a thought leader in the ad planning world, recently published Disintermediation of Online Display Advertising ( Link to the PDF ) In which he recounts the early stages of online advertising and brings you up to speed in a clear and concise way.
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. Disintermediation - GMV is stronger if customers are effectively locked in. For marketplaces companies, GMV (gross merchandise value) is the number 1 metric that most focus on.
Version One Ventures
JULY 19, 2018
At Version One, we are more inclined to invest in businesses where the services are as commoditized as products so there isn’t supplier preference nor disintermediation. Here’s a question that we have been getting a lot lately: Do you still invest in marketplaces? . The answer is YES! We love their network effects and continue to invest in them.
Chris Dixon
APRIL 18, 2012
Some are trying to disintermediate incumbents and thereby restructure large industries. There is generally a lot of enthusiasm in the startup world these days. But some observers worry that too many startups are working on “features” instead of world-changing ideas.
Up and Running
AUGUST 17, 2016
Disintermediation refers to the mindset where customers wonder whether they really need a real estate agent or not. Disintermediation marketing targets such customers to convince them of the value offered by a real estate professional.
Up and Running
OCTOBER 11, 2017
Disintermediation. Disintermediation is when you sidestep everyone in the supply chain and sell directly to consumers, allowing you to potentially lower costs to your customers and have a direct relationship them as well. Airbnb is a well-known example of the marketplace business model.
aweissman.com
AUGUST 31, 2012
They disintermediate incumbent industries but also do the same to any new attempts at re-aggregation? A few weeks ago my partner Albert Wenger wrote about Facebook being unbundled: "Facebook's Real Mobile Problem: Unbundling" where he opined that "mobile devices are doing to web services what web services did to print media: they unbundle." Then I recalled this blog post from University Ventures which wonders whether "colleges and universities are the next object of the Great Unbundling."
A Crowded Space
JULY 24, 2014
This may make disintermediation a big challenge. Making this process easy and convenient should be enough to prevent disintermediation. Startups are attacking just about every vertical.
thebarefootvc
OCTOBER 25, 2015
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.
YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 25, 2017
Analyzing in a general way, what appears with much emphasis is a disintermediation movement, in particular the banks. by Caroline Capitani, VP of Business Innovation of ilegra.
Growthink Blog
DECEMBER 6, 2017
For Aetna, the existential fear that in a world of big data, predictive analytics, and financial disintermediation of why do big insurance companies like them need to exist at all anymore. CVS' proposed acquisition this week of health insurance giant Aetna is a big deal.
Inc Startups
JANUARY 15, 2014
The general direction is democratization of information and disintermediation of publishers. The bestselling author offers publishing advice--and insight into why his giving away his latest book for free.
Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing
AUGUST 2, 2010
Disintermediation - The Internet disintermediated many markets, cutting out the middleman, or several layers of distribution. The Internet disintermediation has sharply reduced the need for jobs like travel agents, stock brokers, music stores, secretaries, admins, presentation graphics, MIS analysts. For more than 30 years businesses have invested in software technology with the promise of increased productivity and cost savings.
Mark Birch
APRIL 16, 2014
That being said, Mike brings up a couple of very critical points that will lead this shift towards a new generation of enterprise technology leaders: Disintermediation of IT. With Enhatch, we have melded these trends of verticalization and disintermediation.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 3, 2015
Marketing Disintermediation. by Eliot Burdett, co-founder and CEO of Peak Sales Recruiting. A new report from Forrester Research called “Death of a B2B Salesman,” predicts that one million U.S. B2B salespeople will lose their jobs to self-service e-commerce by 2020.
Growthink Blog
DECEMBER 20, 2016
What does financial disintermediation really mean? [To listen to a recording of the webinar, Click Here ] On this recorded webinar, the Growthink Innovation Series turns to the transformative world of financial technology. According to PWC, within the next 3-5 years, cumulative investment in FinTech globally could exceed $150 billion.
Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing
SEPTEMBER 2, 2011
Travel agents, stock brokers, and record stores - Technology, specifically the Internet, has disintermediated and disrupted entire industries. Technology is all about productivity. Getting more things done, faster, cheaper, with fewer people. This has been called the "Jobless Recovery".
Growthink Blog
JANUARY 31, 2018
The big news this week was the announcement that Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan were teaming up to form a completely new healthcare company. As in Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, and Jamie Dimon. What does this mean for healthcare as we know it?
Growthink Blog
JUNE 14, 2017
These kinds of businesses are under severe “disintermediation” threat, as technology allows buyers and sellers to connect directly with each other, and thus bypass “middlemen” like Grainger.
thebarefootvc
OCTOBER 25, 2015
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.
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. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future. About Me. AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups.
Immersive Web
JUNE 4, 2013
Anyone can rise up and disintermediate existing players in any market. Immersive Web Yelp is one of the properties that online businesses need to manage. But be afraid.
A Crowded Space
DECEMBER 8, 2014
Also, if someone is paying a membership, there’s a good chance they’ll want to make some good connections in the marketplace, disintermediate, and then cancel the membership. . "Never, ever, think about something else when you should be thinking about the power of incentives." -Charlie Munger. Most marketplaces I know end up seeing some unexpected behavior from their users. It’s always critical to be examining the incentives of all users of the platform.
Venture Chronicles
APRIL 25, 2011
The evolution of business is all about the reduction of latency and disintermediation through technology, as in the elimination of human action. We have reached a point of disintermediation where we no longer even want to go to them, we expect that a tweet will be responded to substantively in a matter of minutes.
A Crowded Space
APRIL 10, 2013
They will not care much about their online reputation, they will not drive turnaround times lower, and they will be disintermediation risks. In the press and on home pages across the web you see metrics like 100,000 expert freelancers or over a million sellers or “adding 3,000 new users per day.” ” Those all sound great, but they are irrelevant to the health of a marketplace company.
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. Do you know that 40% of our time at work is engaged in selling, even if we’re not in sales?
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 8, 2012
Business professors call this phenomenon “disintermediation,” the elimination of the middleman. By Michael Levin.
VC Cafe
NOVEMBER 15, 2011
There is disintermediation going on. For those of you who don’t know Terence Kawaja, he is one of the most influential (and funny) social media advisors around, and is also very experienced at investment banking.
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. This is part of my ongoing series “Start-up Lessons”.
Up and Running
JUNE 14, 2010
The article suggests – and we agree – that angels are disintermediating traditional VCs in many cases. About three years ago I attended a Web 2.0 conference at which a couple of professional venture capitalists and a couple of successful angel investors talked about trends. This was before the great recession, but in the middle of the explosion of web apps and social media.
Rob Go
JANUARY 21, 2016
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. One very broad category of companies are what I’d call consumer transactional businesses.
Growthink Blog
MAY 14, 2014
These high fees obviously eat away at returns, and more profoundly are in contrast to the “disintermediation spirit” so at the heart of modern technology investing. All of a sudden, it is boom time again for venture capital funds, with over $10.3 billion in fresh capital raised by 578 funds in the 1st quarter, up 36% from 2012.
Occam's Razor
MARCH 30, 2017
The current crop of Analytics tools are getting better and better at the known knowns , the process of disintermediation of the humans doing that work is only going to accelerate… And then that work will disappear. A rare post today.
Inc Startups
NOVEMBER 7, 2013
Disintermediation--Buyers will seek additional ways to go direct to providers and manufacturers, diminishing the need for and use of manufacturer reps, dealers, and distributors. What will the future bring for sales professionals?
Inc Startups
OCTOBER 24, 2013
Those channels have attempted to disintermediate the traditional relationships that existed between, say, Inc. Small businesses take note: It''s no longer about your products and services. It''s about giving your customers what they want and need--and not old-fashioned marketing.
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