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Why Banks Merge: Listen to the Sellers

Jeff For Banks

September 2004, driving from a meeting in New York, on the grossly miss-titled Cross Bronx Expressway, Nathan Stovall, a reporter from SNL Financial gave me a call. And what is social media? Read: You have to make lots and lots of little loans when you only have $25 million in capital. “I He printed it as I said it.

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

CB Insights

That skyrocketing popularity is likely what made Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp think it was worth spending $580M to acquire the social network. And in the short-term, that would have looked like a good deal, as the social media site hit its peak in 2007 at a value of about $12B. stock-for-stock deal. AOL and Time Warner.

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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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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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