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.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 3, 2015

Marketing Disintermediation. New research from the Information Technology Services Marketing Association (ITSMA), shows that 70% of B2B buyers want to engage with salespeople early in the sales process. ITSMA did the research with almost 300 senior executives who were buying complex solutions valued at over $500,000.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

The great RockMelt social disintermediation – [link]. Business plans for entrepreneurs: the three ‘Rs’ – Part I – [link]. Important insight – Harsh Realities From 500 Startups Founders – [link]. What I Wish I Knew Before I Started My Company – [link]. Getting Your Startup Started With Payments – [link].

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The Equity Kicker

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Disintermediation is one of the oldest stories of the internet. We’ve seen Betfair cut the middleman out of sports bets for a reasonable chunk of the football and horseracing gambling market in the UK but I can’t think of another large business that has disintermediated a consumer market.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Another industry being disintermediated by technology: Gaming Faces Its Archenemy: Financial Reality – [link]. – [link]. Tech Companies Try, And Fail, To Inspire With Recent Commercials – [link]. Seth’s Blog: Cycle worse, cycle better – [link].

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

As Schiff concurs, this is “an opportunity for publishers that have become disintermediated from their visitors due to too many middlemen to try and take control of their destiny again.”. Advertisers who have not yet implemented Google Offline Conversion Tracking and Facebook’s Conversions API should prepare to do so now.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

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. People were starting to get cynical about yet another pet website or another website for buying art. So journalists were looking for a new story to tell.

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A Crowded Space

MARCH 13, 2012

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Consumers today are expecting a lot more from businesses; they’re demanding transparency, eco-consciousness, disintermediation, as well as upfront and fair pricing. In addition to that, the blockchain allows for complete transparency throughout the entire operations, which in turn helps you build trust with your tenants.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 8, 2017

I hope they are thinking hard about it, rather than fearing being disintermediated by Alexa. 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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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 8, 2013

The first section reveals that the sales profession hasn’t vanished into thin air despite the “disintermediating” propensities of the Internet. Rebirth of a Salesman. On the contrary, the American economy has far more salespeople than factory workers, and the gap is growing each year.

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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.

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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.”. Entrepreneurs today expect more than just capital from their investors.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 19, 2018

At Version One, we are more inclined to invest in businesses where the services are as commoditized as products so there isn’t supplier preference nor disintermediation. Not every service category is right for becoming the “Uber for X.” We need to see that buyers actually use the marketplace more than once and not just for a lead.

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A Crowded Space

APRIL 10, 2013

They will not care much about their online reputation, they will not drive turnaround times lower, and they will be disintermediation risks. In contrast, if you don’t have people that are relying on you for their primary income, you’ll have a very fickle audience.

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 30, 2017

The current crop of Analytics tools are getting better and better at the known knowns , the process of disintermediation of the humans doing that work is only going to accelerate… And then that work will disappear. As close to perfect data, with little to no instrumentation, because it will all already be built in.

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A Crowded Space

JULY 24, 2014

This may make disintermediation a big challenge. Making this process easy and convenient should be enough to prevent disintermediation. Some big challenges. One problem is the “monogamous relationship” aspect of elder care and the relatively high degree of trust required. 1) Value-add from the mobile app.

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Eric Friedman

MARCH 10, 2009

Darren Herman , who is a thought leader in the ad planning world, recently published Disintermediation of Online Display Advertising ( Link to the PDF ) In which he recounts the early stages of online advertising and brings you up to speed in a clear and concise way. More than you might think as explained in the new white paper linked below.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

There is disintermediation going on. With no barrier, new companies start, and existing companies can adapt. The budget for video media is bigger than it seems. Which is what makes VCs as excited as bank robbers are to go after the market. Now, publishers are going directly to consumers, making big implications for incumbents.

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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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A Crowded Space

DECEMBER 8, 2014

Also, if someone is paying a membership, there’s a good chance they’ll want to make some good connections in the marketplace, disintermediate, and then cancel the membership. . If they were focused on liquidity they would want to encourage communication among users. The fix: Paid membership should be a plan B in my opinion.

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VC Adventure

APRIL 11, 2011

The ability of Adhesive companies to insert themselves into the data stream, which existing marketplace players will enable and encourage this, and exactly who the ultimate beneficiaries are (not to mention who is being disintermediated) are key components to a company’s ability to gain rapid market share and scale. Margin Dynamics.

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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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thebarefootvc

JANUARY 15, 2020

I had alluded to this in a piece I wrote in 2015 – Are Banks the Next Dinosaurs?: “Twenty years from now, we will see disintermediation of banks, and millenials will no longer recognize the current banking system as they will receive financial services from a number of new entrants in the technology sector.

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Venture Chronicles

APRIL 25, 2011

The evolution of business is all about the reduction of latency and disintermediation through technology, as in the elimination of human action. We have reached a point of disintermediation where we no longer even want to go to them, we expect that a tweet will be responded to substantively in a matter of minutes.

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 14, 2017

These kinds of businesses are under severe “disintermediation” threat, as technology allows buyers and sellers to connect directly with each other, and thus bypass “middlemen” like Grainger. Very many companies have as their business model distributing / reselling, - i.e

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2016

What does financial disintermediation really mean? On the webinar, the panelists answer questions including the following: Where are (and will be) the biggest areas of financial industry disruption and change and why? How is the real / impactful is the world of mobile payments and where is it going?

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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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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 31, 2018

Because it is one thing for healthcare industry incumbents like Aetna, Anthem, and Humana to "talk the talk" about reducing costs and improving value.but it is another thing entirely when they are forced to do so because of the existential threat of a “disintermediating” juggernaut like Amazon and friends represent here.

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VC Adventure

APRIL 11, 2011

The ability of Adhesive companies to insert themselves into the data stream, which existing marketplace players will enable and encourage this, and exactly who the ultimate beneficiaries are (not to mention who is being disintermediated) are key components to a company’s ability to gain rapid market share and scale. Margin Dynamics.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

The disintermediation potential there in what’s happening today in certain verticals is absolutely a byproduct. Neil Crist: Without question. I think I was taking the customer experience first point of view, which is an argument, but you’re right.

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aweissman.com

AUGUST 31, 2012

They disintermediate incumbent industries but also do the same to any new attempts at re-aggregation? In other words, publishers and bookstores will be unbundled. What if the power of connected networks such as the Internet is that they unbundle all that came before them?

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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.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

We’ll explore the frameworks and strategies you need to consider to manage a distributed team effectively, disintermediate your geography from talent, and we’ll talk about the disciplines you’ll need to develop to leverage boundaryless teams and build a thriving company. Image credit: kelsey -knight-unsplash.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 2, 2012

Liberatingly, crowdfunding will allow smaller companies to simply bypass and disintermediate these broken financial sources altogether.

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thebarefootvc

OCTOBER 25, 2015

Twenty years from now, we will see disintermediation of banks, and millenials will no longer recognize the current banking system as they will receive financial services from a number of new entrants in the technology sector. employ 60K people in 11 countries.

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thebarefootvc

OCTOBER 25, 2015

Twenty years from now, we will see disintermediation of banks, and millenials will no longer recognize the current banking system as they will receive financial services from a number of new entrants in the technology sector. employ 60K people in 11 countries.

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