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Data Enablers: Spreadshirt, Data-Driven T-Shirts

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Germany- and Boston-based Spreadshirt uses data, analytics and even social media information to build a product and spread news among communities while printing more than 3.6 Founded in 2002, the goal of Spreadshirt’s platform is to eliminate headaches and hurdles when bringing great ideas to market. million items last year. “[Our

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Predicting the Next Banking Crisis Is a Fool’s Game. Not Learning From the Last One: Equally Foolish

Jeff For Banks

The dot-com bubble recession began in March 2001 and lasted only 8 months. percent of all jobs in 2001 to 11.3 By comparison, non-high-tech industries lost 689,000 jobs between 2001 and 2002 but recovered the lost jobs by 2004. We knew there was tremendous hubris in the subprime market. High-tech employment fell from 12.1

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Fools Rush In: 37 Of The Worst Corporate M&A Flops

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In a deal that aimed to open the Chinese coal markets, US heavy-equipment behemoth Caterpillar paid $677M in 2012 to acquire ERA Mining Machinery Ltd. The Chinese coal market is one of the biggest in the world and this deal looked like easy money. a leading producer of hydraulic coal-mine roof supports in China. Google and Motorola.

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Tech Cos Making M&A Deals Amid Pandemic

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have made 19 deals so far this year, according to Refinitiv, the London-based global provider of financial market data. billion deal for a minority stake in Indian telecom startup Reliance Jio, giving the social media giant a larger foothold in the region. The Financial Times reported Google, Amazon.com, Apple Inc.

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When Corporate Innovation Goes Bad — The 116 Biggest Product Failures Of All Time

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They didn’t bring it to market solo, either, relying on Bandai’s brand recognition in the gaming world. This would-be competitor to the MacBook was sleek and powerful, but too expensive for PC buyers (who were/are used to lower sticker prices compared to Apple) and didn’t have what it took to steal market share from Apple.

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From Alibaba to Zynga: 21 Of The Best VC Bets Of All Time And What We Can Learn From Them

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JD.com took a huge risk by stepping into a major market and investor Capital Today made a $2.4B Semiconductor Manufacturing International generated huge returns for investor New Enterprise Associates when it built a semiconductor company with an experienced team in a fast-growing international market.

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