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Diving Into Digital Assets: The Business Side of NFTs

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For example, let’s take a look at a marketing use case currently being employed by entrepreneur Mark Cuban, owner of the NBA Dallas Mavericks Basketball team. At the end of the game, the club burns the unused NFTs, thereby making them rare and instantly codifying a small community of NFT owners who share a unique experience.

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What Makes an Effective Community Banking Board?

Jeff For Banks

This might be explained by the capital formation process, where a low performing bank gets equity injections and those folks go on the board. And it doesn't matter if they are in Ag Supply or are the brand manager for the Dallas Cowboys. In terms of bankers, active or retired, this group looks no different than the Top 5.

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What Makes an Effective Community Banking Board?

Jeff For Banks

This might be explained by the capital formation process, where a low performing bank gets equity injections and those folks go on the board. And it doesn't matter if they are in Ag Supply or are the brand manager for the Dallas Cowboys. In terms of bankers, active or retired, this group looks no different than the Top 5.

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Car Vending Machine Company Carvana Goes Up Against Wall Street

PYMNTS

The analyst community balked at longer-term questions about the company’s liquidity even though 2019 was the company’s sixth straight year of triple-digit revenue growth with over 177,000 cars delivered and just shy of $4 billion in revenue. billion, on an 82 percent increase in retail sales. New Markets. Ontario (L.A.),

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Why Pets Are Pulling Retail Innovation’s Leash

PYMNTS

And the idea is to take advantage of the ongoing rise of mobile commerce and social media to create, in essence, digital communities centered around pets — and not just ones that spark to life when little Fido goes missing, or plots an escape from a dog park or a particular section of the beach in the summer. Pet Medicine.

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23 VC-Backed Brick & Mortar Startups Changing The Face Of Main Street

CB Insights

Select VC Investors: Khosla Ventures, Social Capital. Ample Hills Creamery — named for a line in a Walt Whitman poem — is an ice cream shop and “community gathering place.” Select VC Investors: Cue Ball Capital, Valley Oak Investments. Select VC Investors: Otium Capital. Café X Technologies. Oh My Cream!

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The 2018 GonzoBanker Awards

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PNC made a Gonzo move with a national digital expansion in 2018 with the unique idea of building a small number of branches in target metro markets like Kansas City and Dallas. Leveraging the Virtual Wallet brand it built years ago, it will be worth watching how PNC fares in 2019. CVB Financial acquires Community Bank.

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