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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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What Makes an Ideal Leader in a Startup Tech Company?

ReadWriteStart

In the startup world, things change almost every day; you’ll have to worry about changing consumer attitudes, new competitors, disintermediating technology and constantly emerging information. Remaining adaptable in the face of all these evolving variables is the only way to keep your business afloat.

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The Boundaryless Era: the Time for Distributed Teams

ReadWriteStart

MOOCs like Coursera, Udacity, and Udemy have unbundled university content to make education more accessible on a global scale. Provided you know how to find and then manage them — a topic we’ll be digging into in detail in an upcoming post. The Real Question. Image credit: kelsey -knight-unsplash.

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FLoC: Google’s Plan to Kill Off Third-Party Cookies

ConversionXL

Google recommends that you “implement sitewide tagging with the global site tag or Google Tag Manager in order to minimize disruptions during this time.”. As Schiff concurs, this is “an opportunity for publishers that have become disintermediated from their visitors due to too many middlemen to try and take control of their destiny again.”.

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Growthink Innovation Series: FinTech

Growthink Blog

According to PWC, within the next 3-5 years, cumulative investment in FinTech globally could exceed $150 billion. Mr. Steve Hensley , Executive Vice President at KAL Software , a global software company operating at the forefront of the ATM industry. What does financial disintermediation really mean?

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Artificial Intelligence: Implications On Marketing, Analytics, And You

Occam's Razor

AI | Now | Global Maxima. AI | Now | Global Maxima. Maybe there is a Move 37 to solve Global Warming, and we simply can’t conceive of it. It’s implications are far and wide, even in the narrow scope that I live in (marketing, analytics, influence). Here are the elements I’ll cover: + AI | Now | Local Maxima. + Consider Move 37.

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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

Urs Cete, the Head of Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments , notes, “If you think you can provide just money, you will be disintermediated.”. 475 of those have been formed in the last 5 years, according to Global Corporate Venturing. Entrepreneurs today expect more than just capital from their investors.