View from Seed

JULY 31, 2014

As my partner Rob Go has written , our goal is to invest half in consumer web and mobile and half in business-focused ventures. Ecommerce has transcended merely shipping a box to your home — it’s about leveraging mobile plus the internet to create an elegant purchasing experience previously unavailable.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

The great RockMelt social disintermediation – [link]. 40 People Who Changed The Internet – [link]. The 4G forgery – T-Mobile does not have a 4G network – [link]. Business plans for entrepreneurs: the three ‘Rs’ – Part I – [link]. What I Wish I Knew Before I Started My Company – [link].

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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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Rob Go

JANUARY 21, 2016

The ride experience is better in an UberX than a taxi, uberX is cheaper than a taxi, and on demand mobile booking, payments, etc make it way more convenient. And they are able to do this by circumventing traditional distribution taking advantage of the internet. Some companies have all three. Uber is the trifecta.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Another industry being disintermediated by technology: Gaming Faces Its Archenemy: Financial Reality – [link]. Digital Ad Growth Slows, but Mobile Increases | AllThingsD – [link]. Four paths marketers must take to put mobile first | Econsultancy – [link]. IAB Study: Ad-Supported Internet Responsible For 5.1

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Quite simply, the digital, mobile, and Internet revolutions are transforming the way customers access financial products and services of all types, and across all consumer and business sectors. How is the real / impactful is the world of mobile payments and where is it going? What does financial disintermediation really mean?

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aweissman.com

AUGUST 31, 2012

A few weeks ago my partner Albert Wenger wrote about Facebook being unbundled: "Facebook's Real Mobile Problem: Unbundling" where he opined that "mobile devices are doing to web services what web services did to print media: they unbundle." In other words, publishers and bookstores will be unbundled. That vision turned out to be wrong.

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