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Unattended Retail Lessons From Caviar Dreams

PYMNTS

Those who travel to some of the wealthier parts of the world, however, will discover the well-to-do have much more expensive unattended retail tastes. shoppers got their own taste of unattended luxury retail when vending machines dispensing caviar were installed in several Los Angeles-area malls. A few years ago, U.S.

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Newegg Masters The Art Of The Pivot

PYMNTS

It’s hard to find a major eCommerce retailer that has evolved more than Newegg. After coming out of the post-internet bubble economy of 2001 as a force in the consumer electronics category, it eventually supplemented that business with computer parts and accessories, catering to the DIY tech crowd.

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Data Enablers: Spreadshirt, Data-Driven T-Shirts

PYMNTS

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 The startup concept was to create and activate an online shop system to sell and share ideas,” said Smoter. 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. First municipalities and larger commercial customers, and more sophisticated retail depositors.

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

CB Insights

Zynga, creator of Facebook games Farmville, Mafia Wars, and about a dozen different types of online slot machine games, paid $210M in 2012 for OMGPOP, creators of DrawSomething!, That skyrocketing popularity is likely what made Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp think it was worth spending $580M to acquire the social network. Zynga and OMGPOP.

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

CB Insights

eVilla, Sony (2001). Enter the Nook, their attempt at staying relevant and maybe even reclaiming some of their lost market share from the online retailer. This vainglorious effort was tied to The Sharper Image, their sole retailer, a place no one associated with meat. Aztek, Pontiac (2001). Segway, Segway Inc.

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

CB Insights

It wouldn’t be until almost exactly one year later that investors really started flocking to the early social media startup. went public in March of 2017 at a $25B valuation, it was the second-highest valuation at exit of any social media and messaging company since 1999. When Snap Inc. Walmart participated in a $1.5B

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