CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

As a result of its product innovation efforts, Stripe has seen explosive growth in product adoption and valuation. A decade of online payments innovation. Sigma aims to streamline business operations. A decade of online payments innovation. TABLE OF CONTENTS. PayPal and Square emerge as leaders in the payments space.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2018

High interest-rate arresting activity, as it turned out, was a theme throughout the year’s stories as well — e ven in segments where activity was, overall, quite innovative. told PYMNTS that, though there might be a market correction in mortgage lending, there are no signs at present that there is any 2008-like calamity around the corner.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

The result is an eminently quotable collection of homespun investing wisdom: “Price is what you pay, value is what you get.” ( 2008 ). In the early 70s, See’s was able to produce about $2M a year (after tax) on just $8M in net tangible assets (including all accounts receivable.)

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PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2016

Is the Future of Business” on the cover of its February 25, 2008 issue. Google makes one of the leading mobile operating systems in the world — Android — and licenses it for free to companies like, say, Samsung that make it the software foundation of smartphones they sell for hundreds of dollars. Wired magazine blazed “Free!

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CB Insights

JUNE 6, 2019

But what Solyndra’s investors and the government didn’t see — or didn’t understand the importance of — was that the price of polysilicon was on the decline as early as 2008. In January 2019, Munchery abruptly ceased all operations, as it informed customers via email. By December 2011, it was under $30/kg.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Its acquisitions of smaller grocers like Roundy’s (2015) and Harris Teeter (2014) have bolstered Kroger’s supply chain further by integrating their warehouses and distribution centers into the company’s larger operations. This data underpins other improvements to Kroger’s operations. Major CPG brands have struggled to innovate.

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CB Insights

MAY 10, 2018

State of Innovation Report. Expertise: An experienced operator’s perspective on a problem and the different ways that it can be solved. There’s a complexity to getting these tools operational that compounds at scale. Many are still in wide usage today. Efficiency of marketing spend and ad targeting.

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CB Insights

MAY 23, 2019

Few places are more receptive to new ideas and innovative business models than Silicon Valley. Demonstrating sales is a necessity for retail startups, especially those operating in the intensely competitive food vertical. The technology functions similarly to that of maglev bullet trains currently in operation in Japan.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2017

But overpriced, over-hyped hardware products weren’t the only “innovations” we said goodbye to: we also recently witnessed the deaths of startups working in mobile AR, e-commerce, digital media, and more. more than we, Kamil Kurmakaev and I, spent since the company’s inception in 2008 till August 2014.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

By 2008, The Point was struggling. Both Lefkofsky (with Groupon) and Kleiner Perkins (with Cerent) were able to win so big in part because they had hands-on operational roles in their investments. In 2008, Jack Ma and Yu Yongfu met for the first time. In 2007, Lefkofsky and Brad Keywell seeded The Point with $1M. When Snap Inc.

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