YoungUpstarts
JUNE 8, 2012
Since writers remain a necessary evil to publishers, their strategy has been to commoditize writing and thus drive down the cost of getting a book written. Business professors call this phenomenon “disintermediation,” the elimination of the middleman. The stigma of self-publishing is rapidly disappearing.
Up and Running
OCTOBER 11, 2017
It’s an explanation of how you deliver value to your customers at an appropriate cost. These tools let entrepreneurs experiment, test, and, well, model different ways that they could structure their costs and revenue streams. A successful business model just needs to collect more money from customers than it costs to make the product.
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Growthink Blog
MAY 14, 2014
These high fees obviously eat away at returns, and more profoundly are in contrast to the “disintermediation spirit” so at the heart of modern technology investing. Little discussed in most venture fund models are the high costs of deal sourcing, diligence, and oversight. This all costs money. So what to do?
Up and Running
JUNE 14, 2010
One thing that came up repeatedly, then, was the impact of steeply declining web development costs on professional investment. The article suggests – and we agree – that angels are disintermediating traditional VCs in many cases. They also invest lower amounts of money than traditional VCs, between $25k-$250k.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 3, 2015
Marketing Disintermediation. High cost of sales automation and digital marketing. Senior executives who are determined replace their sales division in order to save money should understand that the cost of leveraging sales automation and digital marketing technology is actually very high.
crowdSPRING Blog
OCTOBER 11, 2012
Twitter: It’s time for patent trolls to bear the costs of frivolous lawsuits – [link]. Another industry being disintermediated by technology: Gaming Faces Its Archenemy: Financial Reality – [link]. Innovation Lessons from an Old-Time Enterprise | Forbes – [link]. Does VC (fund size) matter? – [link].
Agile VC
JUNE 12, 2012
At first glance, mobile payments seem like a no brainer… consumers [seemingly] want the convenience of paying with a phone rather than cash or credit card, merchants dislike the cost associated with accepting credit cards, and mobile ecosystem players (e.g. I’ve been an interested observer of electronic payments for 12+ years.
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