Lars Markull

MAY 30, 2020

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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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

Judging by the balance of social media posts and media coverage, it seems safe to assume that on Tuesday, the world was a bit more interested in Colin Kaepernick and Nike than in Brett Kavanaugh and the Supreme Court. It was an observation made often. That was not quite the point the nation took from the ad.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Zynga, creator of Facebook games Farmville, Mafia Wars, and about a dozen different types of online slot machine games, paid $210M in 2012 for OMGPOP, creators of DrawSomething!, In a deal that aimed to open the Chinese coal markets, US heavy-equipment behemoth Caterpillar paid $677M in 2012 to acquire ERA Mining Machinery Ltd.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Today, Instagram is one of the more popular social media platforms. Owned by Facebook, the image- and video-sharing service is worth an estimated $100B, boasts 1 billion users, and has spawned a new class of marketing careers for savvy users. Source: Shopify Investor Deck 2016. Source: In’sane Lab.

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CB Insights

JUNE 6, 2019

Coda Automotive was an early player in the electric vehicle market, an early failure, and a great example of why being early is not always an advantage — even if the future your company envisions is probably the right one. Another, larger problem was that the market for electric cars did not take off the way that Coda expected.

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 30, 2015

Onovative’s powerfully simple marketing automation software helps financial institutions meet the challenge of cross-selling current customers. Slice’s technology provides item-level purchase data across the largest base of online consumers (two million and counting). Founded: 2004. Why it’s great.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2018

That’s not because the Big Four have or had the market locked so they never had a chance, but because a mobile-centric world creates a very different set of expectations around what consumers want from the businesses with which they interact. A Google search directed me to an online merchant that sent them to me (from Italy) four days later.

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CB Insights

MAY 1, 2018

SPOT Watches, Microsoft (2004). MSN was no one’s favorite web portal, and by 2004 there were many better ways to get stock quotes, weather, and other information than through this clunky watch. They didn’t bring it to market solo, either, relying on Bandai’s brand recognition in the gaming world.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

JD.com took a huge risk by stepping into a major market and investor Capital Today made a $2.4B Semiconductor Manufacturing International generated huge returns for investor New Enterprise Associates when it built a semiconductor company with an experienced team in a fast-growing international market.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 14, 2017

These direct-to-consumer, or D2C companies, are able to manufacture and ship their products at much lower costs than traditional consumer brands because they own all of their customers’ data and maintain end-to-end control over the making, marketing, and distribution of products. Bookstores could sell millions of different books.

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