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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

At Virgin Mobile USA, Mari led early initiatives in mobile commerce, social networking and advertising. Corporate VCs open the door to their parent companies and are well networked in their industries. Corporate VC networks extend beyond their own parent companies. Mari Holds a B.A. So how do you get a warm intro?

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A Critical, but Ignored Metric for Marketplaces

A Crowded Space

Those people will be incredibly motivated to help the company, to increase their earnings, and to invest in their online reputation. They will not care much about their online reputation, they will not drive turnaround times lower, and they will be disintermediation risks. Same goes in labor marketplaces.

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Artificial Intelligence: Implications On Marketing, Analytics, And You

Occam's Razor

Most Deep Learning methods involve artificial neural networks, modeling how our bran works. 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. Apply to PhD programs.

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All GMV is not created equal

A Crowded Space

High-quality marketplaces are constantly building bigger moats and strengthening their network effects. Weak marketplaces suffer from disintermediation, pricing pressure, and destructive competition. Each of these factors can contribute to stronger network effects and help a marketplace build enduring value.

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The Boundaryless Era: the Time for Distributed Teams

ReadWriteStart

It’s hard to recruit against a profitable enterprise with a “wow” campus, unmatched employee benefits, and a reputation that’s leagues beyond your tiny new company. And in many places, the distribution of LTE mobile networks have untethered people from wired networks altogether.