A Crowded Space

MARCH 13, 2012

Every marketplace deals with disintermediation: oDesk, eBay, Airbnb, CustomMade, and Etsy. This is known as disintermediation. . From Wikipedia: In economics, disintermediation is the removal of intermediaries in a supply chain: “cutting out the middleman”. . What causes disintermediation? . This is simple.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

We had scrambled to get a product to market, built our first website, rapidly hired a technology team, raised our seed round of capital ($1.5 Everybody thought the real substance was going to come from B2B eCommerce players that would deliver “real value&# by disintermediating supply chains … blah, blah, blah.

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 14, 2017

taking products and/or services made by someone else and then inventorying, marketing and selling them. These kinds of businesses are under severe “disintermediation” threat, as technology allows buyers and sellers to connect directly with each other, and thus bypass “middlemen” like Grainger. For profitable reselling, Grainger.

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A Crowded Space

APRIL 10, 2013

They will not care much about their online reputation, they will not drive turnaround times lower, and they will be disintermediation risks. They won’t open your emails, they won’t participate in your community forums, they won’t give you product feedback, and they won’t be telling all their friends about the platform.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Urs Cete, the Head of Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments , notes, “If you think you can provide just money, you will be disintermediated.”. It comes as no surprise as technology today enables companies to prove product-market fit much earlier in their lifecycles. Now practically everyone is getting involved in Series A.

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 30, 2017

Primarily because we got our first real everyday access to products and services that used some form of AI to delight us. The current crop of Analytics tools are getting better and better at the known knowns , the process of disintermediation of the humans doing that work is only going to accelerate… And then that work will disappear.

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Venture Chronicles

APRIL 25, 2011

Interesting as that is to observe, many questions still linger about whether this is in fact a product category or a catch-all category to describe a collection of product categories that are probably too small to exist independently and matter, or more to the point, these subcategories are deployed collectively to enable a social CRM strategy.

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VC Adventure

APRIL 11, 2011

The ability of Adhesive companies to insert themselves into the data stream, which existing marketplace players will enable and encourage this, and exactly who the ultimate beneficiaries are (not to mention who is being disintermediated) are key components to a company’s ability to gain rapid market share and scale. Margin Dynamics.

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VC Adventure

APRIL 11, 2011

The ability of Adhesive companies to insert themselves into the data stream, which existing marketplace players will enable and encourage this, and exactly who the ultimate beneficiaries are (not to mention who is being disintermediated) are key components to a company’s ability to gain rapid market share and scale. Margin Dynamics.

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Rob Go

JANUARY 21, 2016

These are companies that offer consumers a product or service (or both) that they are paid for (as opposed to consumer audience businesses that are monetized through advertising). The product or service is better than what else is out there. One very broad category of companies are what I’d call consumer transactional businesses.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Analyzing in a general way, what appears with much emphasis is a disintermediation movement, in particular the banks. You can also see the reduction or elimination of fees, de-bureaucracy of processes that can be slow with review and release of credit within minutes.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Another industry being disintermediated by technology: Gaming Faces Its Archenemy: Financial Reality – [link]. Better Product Pages: Turn Visitors Into Customers – [link]. – [link]. Tech Companies Try, And Fail, To Inspire With Recent Commercials – [link]. Six Expected Web Design Trends in 2013 – [link].

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A Crowded Space

APRIL 11, 2016

Weak marketplaces suffer from disintermediation, pricing pressure, and destructive competition. At oDesk, we started with a 50%+ take rate but quickly lowered that to 30% and then 10% as we became more self-service and also wanted to lock up the market and prevent any disintermediation. This is why productivity matters so much!

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Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

In fact my first job as an early employee of PayPal was as Product Manager responsible for our mobile products (WAP-enabled cell phones and our legacy Palm Pilot IR port product) and the first international version of PayPal. The product seemingly never evolved to what it could have been. link] leehower.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 8, 2013

The first section reveals that the sales profession hasn’t vanished into thin air despite the “disintermediating” propensities of the Internet. Rebirth of a Salesman. On the contrary, the American economy has far more salespeople than factory workers, and the gap is growing each year. What To Do.

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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. Mr. Ned Tobey , VP Product Management, Q2 Holdings (NYSE: QTWO ). What does financial disintermediation really mean?

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

He’s the Head of Product and Engineering at Moz, probably knows more about local SEO and the industry insights around SEO than most people. He is the Head of Product and Engineering at Moz. The disintermediation potential there in what’s happening today in certain verticals is absolutely a byproduct.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

In the race to build a great software product, engineering talent is oxygen. Hiring is what enables you to execute your product roadmap. We have excellent products for communication, collaboration, knowledge sharing, and project management like Asana, Trello, Notion, etc. The best way to win the talent war? Don’t participate.

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thebarefootvc

OCTOBER 25, 2015

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. employ 60K people in 11 countries.

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thebarefootvc

OCTOBER 25, 2015

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. employ 60K people in 11 countries.

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