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

View from Seed

As my partner Rob Go has written , our goal is to invest half in consumer web and mobile and half in business-focused ventures. The internet continues the disintermediation of content creation. We average eight to 10 total new investments per year as a firm, so this frequency is a typical investment pace for us.

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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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Angels Rush in Where VC Fear to Tread

Up and Running

About three years ago I attended a Web 2.0 This was before the great recession, but in the middle of the explosion of web apps and social media. One thing that came up repeatedly, then, was the impact of steeply declining web development costs on professional investment. This was a problem for a few, and an opportunity for many.

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

ConversionXL

put this ad on web pages about motorcycles”); General information about the interests of the person who is going to see the ad (e.g., If a user interacts with multiple ads from the same advertiser around the web, these IDs can help the advertiser build a profile of the user’s browsing habits. Featured Image Source.

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Twitter Link Roundup #60 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The great RockMelt social disintermediation – [link]. Fast Company asks: “Is “Undesigned&# the Next Great Web Trend?&# – [link].

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The Final Edition

thebarefootvc

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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A Critical, but Ignored Metric for Marketplaces

A Crowded Space

In the press and on home pages across the web you see metrics like 100,000 expert freelancers or over a million sellers or “adding 3,000 new users per day.” They will not care much about their online reputation, they will not drive turnaround times lower, and they will be disintermediation risks.

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