View from Seed

JULY 31, 2014

Physical-World Ecommerce. At NextView, we believe that one of the next steps in ecommerce is facilitating goods and services transactions that involve a “real-world” component to the experience. The internet continues the disintermediation of content creation. Empowering Content Creators.

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Seed Stage B2C Technical Review Disintermediation 272

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Other websites with which you’ve established yourself: You might have shopping history with an ecommerce site, checkins on a location platform, or account history at a bank. Trust tokens are “non-personalized” and “indistinguishable from one another,” which lets them be shared without undermining privacy. Who gets to give them out?

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Caching Algorithm Advertising Metadata 140

thebarefootvc

JANUARY 15, 2020

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.

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Disintermediation Aggregator China API 69

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Around this time B2C eCommerce had been dominating the media but the wheels were starting to come off. 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. We felt invincible. Mistakes we made?

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