CB Insights

OCTOBER 29, 2018

For Google’s part, it kept releasing its own branded phones under the Nexus brand, partnering with Samsung, Asus, and LG to manufacture these devices, and further eroding the value of the Motorola acquisition. Date : September 2005. Date: August 12, 2005. Date: July 2005. Date: March 24, 2005.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Formerly beloved brands such as Aeropostale, American Apparel, and PacSun bit the dust in 2016, and the pace of retail deaths has accelerated since then. Additionally, many of these physical retailers have lost the cache they once had as new direct-to-consumer brands with a hyper-focus on specific products have taken off.

Retail 78

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

For investors as a whole, returns decrease as motion increases.” ( 2005 ). “Be Each manager, in other words, would receive a portion of the company’s profits less the amount that they spent, in terms of capital, to generate those profits — a reminder to all that capital was not without costs. It had a great brand.

Omaha 78

Omaha Company Capital Management 78

CB Insights

JUNE 6, 2019

Founded: 2005. The company’s assets were acquired by Q Holdings in 2015, and the firm quietly relaunched the Quirky brand in 2017. Second, the thesis that one or two brands would quickly go on to own on-demand food turned out to be either wrong or too early. Dart Music. Earth Class Mail. Declared Bankruptcy: 2011.

Apple 78

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CB Insights

MAY 23, 2019

Crescent Ridge Capital Partners’ elaborate Ponzi scheme. Select Investors: AllianceBernstein, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Glade Brook Capital Partners. The Honest Company’s branding and promotional materials claimed that the firm’s goods were free of synthetic chemicals. Bouxtie’s broken promises.

Fraud 78

Fraud Las Vegas Company Video 78

CB Insights

OCTOBER 16, 2018

And nowhere is Bezos’ philosophy of business, technology, and leadership better articulated than in his annual shareholder letters, which he has written every year since the company’s IPO in 1997. 2005: Don’t get fixated on short-term numbers. 2005: Don’t get fixated on short-term numbers. Just execute.

Customer Experience 78

Customer Experience Innovation Company Technology 78

CB Insights

MAY 10, 2018

” This company had an online presence generating data, but lacked leadership or a vision around how that online presence should work or how that data could truly benefit its core business. Bain, whose co-founders would go on to start Bain Capital, had a particular expertise in finance from the beginning.

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