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From Instagram To Slack: 9 Successful Startup Pivots

CB Insights

Today, Instagram is one of the more popular social media platforms. But before it became a social media heavyweight, Instagram was a simple prototype co-founder Kevin Systrom built while learning how to program. Within a few years, the company was raising millions in venture capital funding and went public in 2015.

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Is Shopify a Fintech player now?

Lars Markull

The company was founded in 2004, went public in 2015 and the stock price is on a crazy 200% rally in the last twelve months. Facebook announced Facebook Shops that enables Facebook and Instagram Business users to create a shop inside their own social media presence. But what happened last week?

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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.” percent in 2004, a decline of 1.1 By comparison, non-high-tech industries lost 689,000 jobs between 2001 and 2002 but recovered the lost jobs by 2004.

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Is Shopify a Fintech player now?

Lars Markull

The company was founded in 2004, went public in 2015 and the stock price is on a crazy 200% rally in the last twelve months. Facebook announced Facebook Shops that enables Facebook and Instagram Business users to create a shop inside their own social media presence. But what happened last week?

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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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The Curious Case For Breaking Up Tech Giants

PYMNTS

There’s been no shortage of capital to start new businesses. A Google search directed me to an online merchant that sent them to me (from Italy) four days later. In 2004 in the U.S., It didn’t — and the jury is out on whether it ever will. About 50 percent of items sold on Amazon now are from sellers just like him.

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11 Lessons From Startup Chapter 11s

CB Insights

The marketplace blended crowdsourcing and social media to create hype around new inventions; help inventors find partners, funding, and manufacturing resources; and sell their gadgets to major nationwide retailers such as Home Depot and Target. Magazine, and the company picked up $40M in VC capital from Index Ventures.

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