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Where are the opportunities for the next venture-scale marketplace business?

Version One Ventures

mobile) and/or new or differentiated supply. 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. Services marketplaces. Uber and Lyft have created one of the largest marketplace categories. B2B marketplaces.

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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

Previously she was Co-Founder and CEO of SNAZZ, a cloud-based event management platform. At Virgin Mobile USA, Mari led early initiatives in mobile commerce, social networking and advertising. At Virgin Mobile USA, Mari led early initiatives in mobile commerce, social networking and advertising. Mari Holds a B.A.

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Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That's Never - AgileVC

Agile VC

Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That’s Never Happened. Mobile payments are the trillion dollar industry that everybody’s been waiting for but has never materialized. But nearly everyone has wrongly placed emphasis on the mobile technology part and not on the payments aspect. June 12, 2012.

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Artificial Intelligence: Implications On Marketing, Analytics, And You

Occam's Razor

On your phone, try to search for people in your lives by name, by faces, combine their name with events/things/locations and you’ll be surprised at what the AI returns. The barrier to this is that your Analytics vendor is in a silo, your campaign vendor in their own, your CMS in it’s own, your mobile anything in it’s own. Cool, right?

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Fintech Companies Redesigning The Financial World

YoungUpstarts

However, the country is doing exceptionally well within this sector – a good example was the prominence given this year by the biggest Banking Technology event in Latin America, CIAB, which dedicated space and special programming to the topic.