PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2016

Back around 2004, lots of entrepreneurs and big companies saw that video streaming was the next big thing. Back in 1870, it took days to get cash from Boston to San Francisco through a combination of railroads and horseback. This isn’t just a problem in payments. Ask Google Video. Fizzle or Sizzle?

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Shake Shack was a food cart in Madison Square Park when it opened in 2004. Clover Food Labs was one food truck with a Square reader in Boston in 2008. Starbucks was a single storefront that didn’t even brew coffee back in 1971. Sure, for every Shake Shack, there are 1,000 Shake Teardowns.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Unity Software, a software platform aimed at video-game developers, pursued a bidding-based approach to its IPO in September 2020, similar to the process used by Google when the search giant went public in 2004. Boston Consulting Group predicts, however, that only a few investment banks will ever again be able to grow to that kind of size.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Thinking that way misses a much bigger point: That is, looking at an “average” percent of sales done in a physical store is about as accurate as following the Farmer’s Almanac ‘s prediction of the average amount of snowfall in Boston each winter by examining how furry the caterpillars are. Take books, for example. Then, there’s cars.

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Jeff For Banks

APRIL 14, 2022

Essays on the Great Depression 2004 Ben S. A Term at the Fed: An Insider's View 2004 John Moody Moody, John The Masters of Capital: A Chronicle of Wall Street 2012 George S. Bernanke Bernanke, Ben S. Bernanke Bernanke, Ben S. 21st Century Monetary Policy: The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to COVID-19 2022 Ben S.

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CB Insights

JULY 19, 2017

Founded: 2004. Founded in 2004, Amazon’s Lab 126 is responsible for innovations like the Kindle, Fire, and Echo. Entrepreneurs can apply to the Verizon Innovation Centers in Boston and San Francisco to gain access to the company’s versatile test network and sophisticated technical equipment. Innovation Lab Name: Lab 126.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2018

In the last few months alone, we’ve seen snow in Rome and three powerful nor’easters in Boston in the space of two and a half weeks — with some forecasts predicting a fourth this week. In 2004 in the U.S., There’s no question that the world’s weather patterns are undergoing a massive change.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2019

The Ted Williams Tunnel in Boston, by contrast, gets me far less excited, even though I use it a lot. Roughly 55,000 vehicles use it to get in and out of Boston every day. From LA to San Francisco. Part of the infamous Big Dig project, it is a 7.5-mile-long mile-long tunnel that cost $1.3 billion to build in the mid-1990s.

Mobile 205

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