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Disintermediation–an old story playing out now

The Equity Kicker

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.

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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]. Employee Equity: Restricted Stock and RSUs on #mbamondays – [link]. Business plans for entrepreneurs: the three ‘Rs’ – Part I – [link]. Important insight – Harsh Realities From 500 Startups Founders – [link].

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Growthink Innovation Series: FinTech

Growthink Blog

Crowdfunder is the equity crowdfunding leader for sourcing and funding high-growth ventures with a network of over 130,000 entrepreneurs and investors. What does financial disintermediation really mean? The panelists are: Mr. Rafe Furst , Co-Founder Crowdfunder. What happens to "cash" in this coming "cashless" society?

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Winners and Losers in the Coming Crowdfunding World

Growthink Blog

financial markets this past decade has resulted in an entire banking industry generation to simply not even know how to do the hard diligence work of equity and fundamentals-based investing in growth businesses. Well, for starters the very unfortunate “derivatives-focus” of the U.S.