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Andrew Weissman
blog.aweissman.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2010
Andrew Weissman is a venture investor who writes about startups, venture capital, marketing and serendipity.
What HN saysHN links his 'no stack startups' post, which one commenter mocks as really meaning 'no-moat startups'; others cite him on startup topics.
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7Figures2Commas · 2014-04-16
I agree with the notion that "a disruptive bank does not look like a bank" but I think you oversimplify the purpose of a bank.
Today's banks provide a variety of services to a variety of different customers with different needs. Lending is just one of them.
Providing a variety of services well as an integrated business is very, very difficult for banks today. That has created opportunity for smaller companies and upstarts to succeed by unbundling services that have historically been accessed through traditional banks[1].
For some reason that isn't clear to me, the OP seems to have fallen in love with the idea of the traditional integrated bank even though the market is clearly suggesting that this isn't where the opportunity and action is.
[1] http://blog.aweissman.com/2013/01/banking-and-unbundling.html
akkartik · 2015-05-07
I was thinking about Meerkat and DataSift last night when I read about the seemingly idiotic idea of "no-stack startups": http://blog.aweissman.com/2015/05/no-stack-startups.html. Might as well call them "no-moat startups".
Edit: already submitted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9500424