PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

It’s a thought that was triggered recently after reading and reflecting on recent developments across three innovations heralded as FinTech’s poster children — disruptors out to change the world and eat the proverbial lunches of incumbents they say are too big and too unmotivated to change. Digital banks. Blockchain.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Building a product that people want is hard. Mint’s pre-launch blogging strategy that got them 20,000+ customers. How to design for the specific kind of user you want. Mint — How blog posts helped Mint get 20,000 customers pre-launch. WHY ARE THEy SUCCESSFUL? How to show value during the first-run experience.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

For those who’ve been reading, we’ve had failure on the brain recently. Partly because it’s a good counterbalance to the typical survivorship bias laden stories we read, and also because understanding failure is critical to the algorithms underlying our product. A most-wanted founder. via Light Reading.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2017

After reading the 242 goodbye letters and investigative takedowns below, click here for insights on the 20 most commonly cited reasons that startups go down swinging. 2017 Third Update (10/31/17). 2017 First Update (2/10/17). 2016 Third Update (11/8/16). 2016 Second Update (7/28/2016). Around 4 p.m.,

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

You’ll read about how: WhatsApp decided early on to work only with a single investor, Sequoia Capital, which invested a total of $60M into the company for a massive $3B return. Lending Club made changes to its business model that created new opportunities for growth. But he had another idea he wanted to pitch to Singh. “Mr.

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