Feld Thoughts

MAY 8, 2017

I hope they are thinking hard about it, rather than fearing being disintermediated by Alexa. Or maybe special access to curated channels. As more hardware companies start paying attention to revenue attach, following the lead of companies like Dropbox, Ring, and Peloton, there’s an obvious place for Sonos to do this.

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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.”. Understand whom you can approach with what type of a request before you do, and always use warm channels to reach out. Entrepreneurs today expect more than just capital from their investors.

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 30, 2017

While we all work to do that (and it really is your problem to solve primarily and not a vendor’s), it is important to realize that each marketing channel has gotten so much more advanced in being able to identify a singular human on it’s own platform. Yes, a silo but so much better than 2015.

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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.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 17, 2016

Disintermediation refers to the mindset where customers wonder whether they really need a real estate agent or not. Disintermediation marketing targets such customers to convince them of the value offered by a real estate professional. Dispel questions on the need for a real estate agent.

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2017

For Aetna, the existential fear that in a world of big data, predictive analytics, and financial disintermediation of why do big insurance companies like them need to exist at all anymore. For CVS , the fear of Amazon coming into their market and squeezing them , as they have done to so many others , so hard that margins just evaporate.

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Rob Go

JANUARY 21, 2016

M arketplace businesses are the classic example of this because they disintermediate the supply chain and offer a more free exchange of products between buyers and sellers. For Founders. If in the process you can offer a product or service that is also cheaper and better, then more power to you.

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