PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2016

Well, it is “an innovative new payment platform created to transform the payments industry by drastically altering the economics through Internet-based technology, generating significant consumer benefits.” Except, of course, it didn’t – and it is now in the crowded graveyard of payments innovations that sounded too good to be true.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2019

And classic films aren’t the only place where a flop can presage a hit: In fact, many of today’s favorite consumer innovations come care of a failed first iteration that was widely derided before it was praised. For example…. The Tablet. The Miss . Microsoft’s Tablet PC. ” That is not quite how the story turned out.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2018

Grubhub founders Matt Maloney and Mike Evans wanted to solve a simple problem in 2004: make it easy for consumers to order food from local restaurants and have it delivered. This new restaurant paradigm is catching on as consumers’ penchant for delivery and convenience is increasing as quickly as the costs of operating a restaurant are.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 29, 2018

The Sad State of Corporate Innovation. See how corporates are failing when it comes to innovation. Download the free 31-page State of Innovation report. While Google excelled in building software, it lagged behind in hardware and product innovation. Microsoft and Nokia. Date: April 25, 2014. Price: $7.9B. Price: $11B.

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PYMNTS

MAY 19, 2017

The experts at Triad Retail Media are there to make sure that happens. Triad customizes and manages digital media programs to transform busy websites like Walmart.com into publishing properties that benefit the advertising brands, host retailers, and shoppers who use them with a perfectly calibrated pitch.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 25, 2016

Innovation in payments is easier said than done. It’s one thing to come up with a new solution or idea, but putting innovation into practice requires striking a balance that is not always easy to achieve. PYMNTS: How would you define your company’s approach to innovation? PYMNTS: What is the most innovative thing you’ve done?

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 16, 2018

2013: Decentralize decision-making to generate innovation. 2011: Self-service platforms unlock innovation. 2004: Free cash flow enables more innovation. 2013: Decentralize decision-making to generate innovation. 2011: Self-service platforms unlock innovation. 2004: Free cash flow enables more innovation.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy only when others are fearful.” ( 2004 ). The company’s operations and underlying value are the only things that matters, to Buffett. In the aftermath of the crisis, retail and institutional investors offloaded massive numbers of stocks in businesses weak and strong.

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CB Insights

JUNE 6, 2019

The company announced it was effectively ceasing operations immediately and filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, putting more than 1,100 people out of work overnight. In January 2019, Munchery abruptly ceased all operations, as it informed customers via email. By September 2011, Solyndra’s business model had fallen apart.

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CB Insights

JULY 19, 2017

Corporate innovation is critical for established companies looking to stay relevant in the face of disruption from up-and-coming startups. With industries being unbundled left and right ( supermarkets , banking , cars — just to name a few) more companies are opening up in-house innovation labs every day. Retail/Consumer Goods.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Shopify’s founders launched the platform in 2004 as an online storefront for selling snowboarding gear, which was at the time known as Snowdevil. The team decided to rebrand not as a store in and of itself, but as a way for other online retailers to sell their wares via the web.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Online retailers will be where we shop. I believe that this inflection point will accelerate the four big shifts that have been taking place right before our very eyes over the last decade — shifts that will now set the course for how every single player in payments and commerce and retail should be planning their 2017 and beyond.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2018

And not even because they’re job destroyers, which he said is the natural consequence of innovation, and innovation is goodness. That, of course, minimizes the importance of innovations such as the telephone or electricity, which, like Facebook, are technologies upon which innovations were developed and then commercialized.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2019

This is the year that everyone takes a critical look at the innovations they’ve pursued over the last decade to decide what’s worth taking forward into the decade of the ‘20s and what’s best left behind in the decade whose door will close 358 days from today. That makes it the most important year of the last decade. Consider this.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 4, 2018

In 2004, Alibaba Group launched Alipay to support online payment transactions on Alibaba.com and Taobao.com. By 2008, Alipay was increasingly becoming an accepted payment method for retailers and service providers outside Alibaba’s ecosystem. Wealth management. Credit scoring. The effects of regulation. Open platform strategy.

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CB Insights

MAY 1, 2018

Product innovation is one way that large corporations stay competitive in a rapidly changing marketplace, but it doesn’t always work out when big brands attempt innovation. Understanding failure is crucial since so many accounts of innovation focus on the successes and so are affected by survivorship bias.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Thiel became an outside board member with his $500K seed investment in Facebook in 2004. Both Lefkofsky (with Groupon) and Kleiner Perkins (with Cerent) were able to win so big in part because they had hands-on operational roles in their investments. Later, the retail giant sold its entire e-commerce operations in China to JD.com.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 14, 2017

New Frontiers in Retail Tech. Download this research briefing to see how corporates and startups are shaping the future of retail with tech. They don’t need to rely on traditional retail stores for exposure. They’re competing more efficiently by rethinking not just the product, but also the retail model.

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