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Fat Brain Toys Navigates Pandemic With Agile Business Model

PYMNTS

It has also done a solid job of staying in touch with its audience during the pandemic with contests and other community outreach programs as it capitalizes on retail partnerships including marketplaces like Amazon, Target, and Walmart. Carson says he sees a broader shift is also underway with educational-oriented toys.

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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

Finally, resolution of failing financial institutions requires that the deposit insurance fund be strongly capitalized with real reserves, not just federal guarantee.” By comparison, non-high-tech industries lost 689,000 jobs between 2001 and 2002 but recovered the lost jobs by 2004. To you, manage your interest rate risk.

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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

In venture capital, returns follow the power law — 80% of the wins come from 20% of the deals. Get the 65-page report on teardowns for Union Square Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and more. JD.com took a huge risk by stepping into a major market and investor Capital Today made a $2.4B

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