If you are looking for your next startup idea, look no further. A range of technological tools and shifts in the media landscape have made it possible to become a startup yourself.
The internet is unbundling entire industries. Different services are breaking down into smaller and smaller pieces, which allows a multiplicity of players to take on the role of previously huge monopolies. In VC-speech, these trends are called unbundling or disaggregation. The best example of unbundling online we’ve seen play out so far is media, as described in this article.
“Software is eating the world” — Marc Andreessen.
However, we now see the internet advance into more and more domains, especially industries still dominated by large legacy organizations. As with the media industry, the services are “unbundled” one after the other by current startups — from fashion to finance. Software is not just eating the world, it is digesting it into small pieces of SaaS offerings, platforms, and marketplaces.
Better digital tools make it possible to create a business with fewer and fewer people, automating all aspects of the process besides the core contribution of the business. We…