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A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Our Recent Seed-Stage VC Investments

View from Seed

But we’re also very active in New York, as five of the most recent startups we’ve funded are based in Manhattan (which is 40% of this recent flurry of investments). The internet continues the disintermediation of content creation. Empowering Content Creators.

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Why Publishers Will Tell You Anything But The Truth

YoungUpstarts

As the publishing industry gathers in New York for its annual trade show, BookExpo America , they’re discussing everything except the one piece of information authors crave: how many books they actually sell. Authors now go directly to their readerships without the intervention or dis-ingenuity of the New York publishers.

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What Is a Business Model? Business Models Explained

Up and Running

Examples: CBS, The New York Times, YouTube. Disintermediation. Disintermediation is when you sidestep everyone in the supply chain and sell directly to consumers, allowing you to potentially lower costs to your customers and have a direct relationship them as well.

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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.”. Such expectations have spurred the growth of a new crop of independent venture funds, with notable examples like Andreessen Horowitz and First Round Capital.

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Fintech Companies Redesigning The Financial World

YoungUpstarts

San Francisco and other cities close by (79 in California) represent the highest concentration of fintechs, however, New York also has a significant number (33 in total). Analyzing in a general way, what appears with much emphasis is a disintermediation movement, in particular the banks.

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The Great Fragmentation

aweissman.com

They disintermediate incumbent industries but also do the same to any new attempts at re-aggregation? This is what Dale Stephens of Uncollege has been saying to me for a while - that education is being unbundled into its component parts: content, teachers, credentials,community, physical campus, mentors, hiring and network.

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The Boundaryless Era: the Time for Distributed Teams

ReadWriteStart

But if your company is located someplace like Silicon Valley, Seattle, Boston, or New York, you’re entering the race with a handicap. It’s hard to recruit against a profitable enterprise with a “wow” campus, unmatched employee benefits, and a reputation that’s leagues beyond your tiny new company.