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What Is a Business Model? Business Models Explained

Up and Running

Airbnb is a well-known example of the marketplace business model. Understanding the problem you are solving for your customers is undoubtedly the biggest challenge you’ll face when you’re starting a business. But, ensuring that your product fits the needs of the market is only one part of starting a successful business.

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Angels Rush in Where VC Fear to Tread

Up and Running

And the beneath-the-surface rumblings were about how it was screwing up the venture capital business model. But entrepreneurs, meanwhile, were looking for a lot less. The article suggests – and we agree – that angels are disintermediating traditional VCs in many cases.

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Terence Kawaja Presents “Clash of the Titans” in Social Media

VC Cafe

Extremely rapidly, companies that you’ve heard of earlier are being formed into 10-20-50 billion dollar companies, so rapidly and cheaply that its a bonanza for entrepreneurs that have great ideas. Companies from a vast variety of background who have never compete with each other, are now converging business models and are all competing.

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Winners and Losers in the Coming Crowdfunding World

Growthink Blog

Well, the first group of winners will undoubtedly be the tens of millions of American entrepreneurs - and eventually hundreds of millions of worldwide - that for the first time in human history will have access to on-demand capital for their creative and future-focused projects and initiatives. These businesses - think of the Inc.

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

Agile VC

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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