Occam's Razor

MARCH 30, 2017

Our current red flags are sourced from what human means today, what works means today, what our relationship with technology means today. The barrier to this is that your Analytics vendor is in a silo, your campaign vendor in their own, your CMS in it’s own, your mobile anything in it’s own. Humans push forward. The Tactical.

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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 last 2 years have been banner years for social CRM technology where the term itself went from being derided as being made up by vendors and analysts rather than defining an actual technology segment, to one of enthusiasm and excitement for how social technologies are changing the way companies engage their customers.

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2016

[To listen to a recording of the webinar, Click Here ] On this recorded webinar, the Growthink Innovation Series turns to the transformative world of financial technology. How is the real / impactful is the world of mobile payments and where is it going? What does financial disintermediation really mean?

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Rob Go

JANUARY 21, 2016

The ride experience is better in an UberX than a taxi, uberX is cheaper than a taxi, and on demand mobile booking, payments, etc make it way more convenient. 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

Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures says: “I feel that the ability to spin up and then successfully operate remote engineering locations is a skill that technology companies need to develop earlier in their development than used to be the case.”. In many places, mobile data and hardwired internet were still billed based upon usage.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 2, 2012

To envision this, visit (or revisit) Kickstarter.com, and browse through the incredible diversity of cause and passion - based projects, from charitable to design to artistic to technological, crowd funded on a donations basis on the site.

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thebarefootvc

OCTOBER 25, 2015

The most documented example of this is M-Pesa’s mobile money platform in Kenya, which I have written about a few times on this blog, including in my thesis piece When Third is First. Over 30% have used mobile banking in the past month, a mode of banking that is currently more efficient in Nigeria than it is in the United States.

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thebarefootvc

OCTOBER 25, 2015

The most documented example of this is M-Pesa’s mobile money platform in Kenya, which I have written about a few times on this blog, including in my thesis piece When Third is First. Over 30% have used mobile banking in the past month, a mode of banking that is currently more efficient in Nigeria than it is in the United States.

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