William Mills

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

William Mills Agency will be live blogging at FinovateFall 2017. Digital banking solutions for community banks and credit unions. A turnkey solution incorporating CRM, invoicing and payments into a simple solution for the business delivered through the bank’s digital banking solution. MalauzaiMonkeys.

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DECEMBER 27, 2019

Ignition of a new technology or idea in payments and commerce is always something of a tricky balancing act because consumers need a really good reason to change their well-entrenched habits. In 2017 only 11 percent of consumers in a national study of the U.S. And perhaps more exceptional than the awareness is actual use. Two things.

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JULY 9, 2018

Banking is being unbundled. Open banking, set in motion globally by a regulatory fiat called PSD2 , gives licensed third parties access to banking infrastructure so that they can make their services available to existing bank customers. Is unbundling the future? So it would seem. Television programming is being unbundled.

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JULY 1, 2019

If Facebook really wants to be WeChat , an ambition it has referenced now for several years, then why did it launch Libra? To understand why, we need to do a little time travel back to July 2017, when Facebook’s Messenger and its monetization strategy was front and center in the company’s Q2 earnings report.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Well, it sure feels like next year — 2017 — could be that year. We’ve hit the inflection point this year that pundits have been predicting each year for the last 10. That is, of course, if they want to survive what’s next. Our data shows that it’s not just books that are feeling that shift — or even that same shift to Amazon.

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MARCH 6, 2019

want to know THE TOP 20 REASONS STARTUPS FAIL? A lawsuit filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission followed, with Holmes agreeing in a settlement to return millions of shares, pay a $500,000 fine, and refrain from being an officer or director of a public company for 10 years. Download the full 25-page report. Powa Technologies.

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William Mills

MAY 9, 2018

And finally, do I have enough in my bank account to still have fun? With a view into the future, and by removing the uncertainty around personal finance decision-making, we provide users with confidence to know they can do the things they want with their money. Founded: August 2017. We are hearing a voice banking with Alexa.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Everyone’s talking about them, but what do these terms really mean? As of this writing in mid-November 2017, the total market capitalization of cryptocurrencies hovers around $220B (with a single bitcoin trading for upwards of $8,000). Initial coin offerings (ICOs) have exploded in popularity, closing on $3B+ in funding in 2017 alone.

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MARCH 19, 2018

2017 was the most destructive hurricane season in 82 years, with Harvey, Irma and Maria pummeling parts of the U.S. 2017, more than 230 people lost their lives when Mexico City was struck by a 7.1 Think about it — did any of this happen before they had those twins? Those twins were born July 2017. magnitude earthquake.

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OCTOBER 10, 2017

Building a product that people want is hard. It’s even harder when your target market would rather never think about what you’re trying to sell them — retirement, for example. How to design for the specific kind of user you want. Download the 17 key takeaways from the 7 fastest-growing personal finance apps.

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JUNE 17, 2020

As more people have worked, learned, banked, exercised, relaxed, and even sought medical care from home during Covid-19, they have gotten a crash course in just how much can be accomplished at home. Branchless banking. In the wake of the outbreak, everything from doctors appointments to schooling to workouts went online.

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JANUARY 7, 2019

That’s up from 50 percent in 2017 and 43 percent in 2016. That’s up from 35 percent in 2017. Mobile handsets have made commerce possible anywhere a consumer, handset in hand, wants to buy something. It’s taken just two years for 10 percent of the population to use them to make a purchase. In fact, it already is.

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JANUARY 2, 2017

Today, we thought we’d set the table for 2017 by reprising seven of the, ahem, more controversial topics of conversation. OK, there were actually a lot more than seven, but here are seven that might help ground your thinking about the big shifts in 2017 that she spoke of a few weeks ago. . Walmart Vs. Amazon.

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OCTOBER 31, 2017

2017 Third Update (10/31/17). 2017 Second Update (6/9/17). 2017 First Update (2/10/17). 2017 Third Update (10/31/17). Read on for post-mortems on 10 of the latest startups to bite the dust. The feedback was eye-opening and generally the same: “Really great technology and vision.

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OCTOBER 9, 2017

That market power gave the merchant guilds who organized trade inside the Bazaar license to set the rules of engagement for the merchants who wanted to be part of it. Quite literally, all roads having anything at all to do with commerce more or less led to the Grand Bazaar. Sellers began vigorously competing on price and merchandising.

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OCTOBER 9, 2017

That market power gave the merchant guilds who organized trade inside the Bazaar license to set the rules of engagement for the merchants who wanted to be part of it. Quite literally, all roads having anything at all to do with commerce more or less led to the Grand Bazaar. Sellers began vigorously competing on price and merchandising.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Google grew through the bursting of the dot com bubble with the help of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, which held on to its early investment even when the market plummeted. Typically when early-stage investors put cash into a company, they want to bring on additional investors to drum up more buzz and validate their investment.

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JANUARY 23, 2017

As important as that work is, discussing this social and public policy agenda isn’t why I was intrigued by Vance and his book — nor why I asked him to join me on stage on March 15, 2017, at the Innovation Project. population is engaged in a “gig” job, and 10 percent (and rising) rely on it for their only source of income.

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