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Don’t drink your own Kool-Aid (surviving TC50)

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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. We were it in Europe: B2B. Chemdex (Ventro), VerticalNet, Ariba, PurchasePro and CommerceOne were the new big boys on the block.

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Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That's Never - AgileVC

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If massively succesful, Isis might disintermediate the companies that manufacturer plastic payment cards and perhaps the companies that make mag stripe hardware (e.g. Also some of the mobile banking players are considering to build a parallel network that would disintermediate the card associations. Enough said. What about Jumio?

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