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Data Enablers: Spreadshirt, Data-Driven T-Shirts

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Germany- and Boston-based Spreadshirt uses data, analytics and even social media information to build a product and spread news among communities while printing more than 3.6 We automate complex payment and tax regulations in over 180 countries and offer a variety of payment checkout options,” said Smoter.

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Predicting the Next Banking Crisis Is a Fool’s Game. Not Learning From the Last One: Equally Foolish

Jeff For Banks

The dot-com bubble recession began in March 2001 and lasted only 8 months. percent of all jobs in 2001 to 11.3 By comparison, non-high-tech industries lost 689,000 jobs between 2001 and 2002 but recovered the lost jobs by 2004. High-tech employment fell from 12.1 percent in 2004, a decline of 1.1 credit default swaps anyone?).

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Fools Rush In: 37 Of The Worst Corporate M&A Flops

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The Sad State of Corporate Innovation. See how corporates are failing when it comes to innovation. Download the free 31-page State of Innovation report. While Google excelled in building software, it lagged behind in hardware and product innovation. Date: September 3, 2001. Microsoft and Nokia. Price: $7.9B.

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When Corporate Innovation Goes Bad — The 116 Biggest Product Failures Of All Time

CB Insights

Product innovation is one way that large corporations stay competitive in a rapidly changing marketplace, but it doesn’t always work out when big brands attempt innovation. Understanding failure is crucial since so many accounts of innovation focus on the successes and so are affected by survivorship bias.

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From Alibaba to Zynga: 21 Of The Best VC Bets Of All Time And What We Can Learn From Them

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It wouldn’t be until almost exactly one year later that investors really started flocking to the early social media startup. went public in March of 2017 at a $25B valuation, it was the second-highest valuation at exit of any social media and messaging company since 1999. When Snap Inc. Between 1999 and 2004, $1.8T

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