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From Investing To Budgeting, How Millennials Are Disrupting Personal Finance

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A 2018 survey by Bank of America shows that millennials’ top financial priorities were saving for emergency funds (64%), saving for retirement (49%), and saving to buy a house (33%) — not much different from the concerns their baby boomer parents had 30 years ago. From big banks to big tech. get the REPORT on next generation investors.

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Autopsy Report: 9 Startup Failure Stories And What We Can Learn From Them

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services inspected a Theranos laboratory in 2015 and released a letter in January 2016 stating that it violated several clinical standards. Launched in February 1999, Pets.com sought to capitalize on widespread internet access and a $23B pet supplies market by selling products directly to consumers.

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Killing Strategy: The Disruption Of Management Consulting

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Before Bruce Doolin Henderson opened the doors of Boston Consulting Group on July 1, 1963, the concept of “competition” barely existed in American business culture, let alone the concept of strategy. There were great, successful companies. Those companies made plans. ” —Walter Kiechel. . ” —Walter Kiechel.

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11 New Restaurant Concepts Reimagining Fast Food & Casual Dining

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The old guard of American dining are switching up their games to compete: McDonald’s is adding self-serve kiosks to many of its franchises, upping the ante with mobile order technology. By Chloe, the so-called “vegan Shake Shack,” recently raised $31M to take its perfectly curated, ready-for-Instagram aesthetic international.

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We analyzed 7 of the fastest-growing personal finance apps of all time to figure out the secrets to their success — here’s what we learned

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By creating tons of content around their mission to help people get their finances in order, Mint was able to build the top personal finance blog on the internet before it ever launched its product. That’s “more accounts than E-trade added in all of 2016,” according to TechCrunch. bank accounts. debit & credit cards.

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121 Of The Biggest, Costliest Startup Failures Of All Time

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The company had lost $81 million in the 2016 financial year with revenue of just $1.2 Advertising revenue declined sharply [2016], leaving the company unable to service its debt, and no suitors took a bite. Advertising revenue declined sharply [2016], leaving the company unable to service its debt, and no suitors took a bite.

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242 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

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2017 Third Update (10/31/17). 2017 First Update (2/10/17). 2016 Third Update (11/8/16). 2016 Second Update (7/28/2016). 2016 First Update (2/15/2016). 2017 Third Update (10/31/17). Read on for post-mortems on 10 of the latest startups to bite the dust. 2017 Second Update (6/9/17).

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