View from Seed

JULY 31, 2014

Lastly, given our Boston location, it isn’t surprising that seven investments were Boston-based. The internet continues the disintermediation of content creation. We’ve been remarkably consistent on this dimension as well: five of the recent 13 investments were B2C, five were B2B, and three you could categorize as B2B2C.

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Seed Stage B2C Technical Review Disintermediation 272

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

But if your company is located someplace like Silicon Valley, Seattle, Boston, or New York, you’re entering the race with a handicap. Even the most well-funded startup has limited resources. It might seem advantageous to recruit people that live within twenty miles of your HQ. Image credit: kelsey -knight-unsplash.

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Distribution San Francisco Silicon Valley El Salvador 117

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 8, 2012

Business professors call this phenomenon “disintermediation,” the elimination of the middleman. He has written for the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CBS News, the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, and many other top outlets. The stigma of self-publishing is rapidly disappearing.

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New York Los Angeles United States Disintermediation 223

Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

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. Read More ».

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Mobile Disintermediation SMS Government 250