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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

Finally, resolution of failing financial institutions requires that the deposit insurance fund be strongly capitalized with real reserves, not just federal guarantee.” percent in 2004, a decline of 1.1 By comparison, non-high-tech industries lost 689,000 jobs between 2001 and 2002 but recovered the lost jobs by 2004.

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Is Shopify a Fintech player now?

Lars Markull

The company was founded in 2004, went public in 2015 and the stock price is on a crazy 200% rally in the last twelve months. Facebook announced Facebook Shops that enables Facebook and Instagram Business users to create a shop inside their own social media presence. But what happened last week?

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From Instagram To Slack: 9 Successful Startup Pivots

CB Insights

Today, Instagram is one of the more popular social media platforms. Owned by Facebook, the image- and video-sharing service is worth an estimated $100B, boasts 1 billion users, and has spawned a new class of marketing careers for savvy users. Source: Wayback Machine. Source: Shopify Investor Deck 2016.

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Is Shopify a Fintech player now?

Lars Markull

The company was founded in 2004, went public in 2015 and the stock price is on a crazy 200% rally in the last twelve months. Facebook announced Facebook Shops that enables Facebook and Instagram Business users to create a shop inside their own social media presence. But what happened last week?

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

CB Insights

In venture capital, returns follow the power law — 80% of the wins come from 20% of the deals. Get the 65-page report on teardowns for Union Square Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and more. JD.com took a huge risk by stepping into a major market and investor Capital Today made a $2.4B

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The Curious Case For Breaking Up Tech Giants

PYMNTS

There’s been no shortage of capital to start new businesses. That’s not because the Big Four have or had the market locked so they never had a chance, but because a mobile-centric world creates a very different set of expectations around what consumers want from the businesses with which they interact. In 2004 in the U.S.,

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11 Lessons From Startup Chapter 11s

CB Insights

Coda Automotive was an early player in the electric vehicle market, an early failure, and a great example of why being early is not always an advantage — even if the future your company envisions is probably the right one. Another, larger problem was that the market for electric cars did not take off the way that Coda expected.

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