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. While all three of our most recent investments built on this foundational idea still remain stealthy, everyone utilizes connected technology to uniquely deliver a service or bundled product.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures says: “I feel that the ability to spin up and then successfully operate remote engineering locations is a skill that technology companies need to develop earlier in their development than used to be the case.”. In many places, mobile data and hardwired internet were still billed based upon usage.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 2, 2012

To envision this, visit (or revisit) Kickstarter.com, and browse through the incredible diversity of cause and passion - based projects, from charitable to design to artistic to technological, crowd funded on a donations basis on the site.

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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]. What Happened to Diaspora, the ‘Facebook Killer’?

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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]. Technology expected in homes in 10 years – Scientists unveil moving 3D holograms – [link]. SPEC Campaign [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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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2016

[To listen to a recording of the webinar, Click Here ] On this recorded webinar, the Growthink Innovation Series turns to the transformative world of financial technology. 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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