Up and Running

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Everything it takes to sell that thing: marketing, distribution, delivering a service, and processing the sale. Or, perhaps you can find more effective methods of marketing and sales. Amazon will pay you a small commission for every sale that you refer to them. Disintermediation. Concierge/customization.

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Business Model Disintermediation Affiliate Advertising 137

Growthink Blog

JUNE 14, 2017

If the answer comes back that sales would plummet as customers would leave for lower priced competitors, then the needed places where our offerings lack intrinsic and perceived value - because of operational inefficiencies and / or branding ineffectiveness - should become readily obvious. thought experiment.

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Disintermediation Business Model B2B Revenue 59

Rob Go

JANUARY 21, 2016

Convenience tends to be an area where incumbents struggle, especially when convenience is tied to new forms of distribution. Incumbents are where they are because they have scale through the existing large modes of distribution (eg: physical retail). Why Convenience is Better. For Founders.

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Disintermediation Distribution Demand Flash 28

Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

It’s conceptually no different from the early days of Western Union’s original payments business when people “wired” money to one another at each end of a physical distribution network. Also some of the mobile banking players are considering to build a parallel network that would disintermediate the card associations.

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Mobile Disintermediation SMS Government 250