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A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Our Recent Seed-Stage VC Investments

View from Seed

The internet continues the disintermediation of content creation. Ecommerce has transcended merely shipping a box to your home — it’s about leveraging mobile plus the internet to create an elegant purchasing experience previously unavailable. Empowering Content Creators.

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Fintech Companies Redesigning The Financial World

YoungUpstarts

Analyzing in a general way, what appears with much emphasis is a disintermediation movement, in particular the banks. You can also see the reduction or elimination of fees, de-bureaucracy of processes that can be slow with review and release of credit within minutes.

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What Makes an Ideal Leader in a Startup Tech Company?

ReadWriteStart

For example, you might have been a manager at a fast food restaurant, or the residing President of a club in college. In the startup world, things change almost every day; you’ll have to worry about changing consumer attitudes, new competitors, disintermediating technology and constantly emerging information.

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When it Comes to Venture Capital, Do Like Warren Does

Growthink Blog

The result has been a “regression to the mean” - with alpha performance by fund managers being driven as much by randomness and luck (as it has been with public market mutual funds for decades) as by coherent design. With now over one thousand active U.S. This all costs money.

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The Boundaryless Era: the Time for Distributed Teams

ReadWriteStart

These people may be permanent employees, or they may work on a project-by-project basis, but they are managed very much as if they’re working right alongside you. Distributed teams are more common, and companies know what to expect when managing remote offices. But today, the equilibrium is shifting for many founders.

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FLoC: Google’s Plan to Kill Off Third-Party Cookies

ConversionXL

Google recommends that you “implement sitewide tagging with the global site tag or Google Tag Manager in order to minimize disruptions during this time.”. 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.”.

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Don’t drink your own Kool-Aid (surviving TC50)

Both Sides of the Table

So many companies suck at managing their booths. 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. Worth a read on how to maximize the traffic that comes to you site since much of it will be fleeting.