CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Modern-day retail is at an inflection point as retailers face struggling physical storefronts, massive debt, and inefficient operations, among other issues. 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. Date: September 2017.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Watching it at home in the comfort of the living or family room wouldn’t be an option until nearly two years later: August 22, 2006 , when the DVD was finally released. Dining out, though, is just one example of the consumer’s “don’t have to but want to” activities that brands can meet with digital-first solutions to keep consumers engaged.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Consumers want everything these days, from online shopping with one-click ordering and fast delivery to an exciting and high-tech shopping experience at physical stores. Rue21’s new strategy includes opening 40 new stores, giving 100 current stores a facelift and focusing on branding. In 2006, the company went public.

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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!, Date: November 30, 2006. Date: February 6, 2006. In 2006, it was the most-visited website in the US, even beating out Google. Zynga and OMGPOP.

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Lex Sokolin

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Everyone complains about Amazon, but we all shop online. and by the way banking licenses are sort of hard to find in 2006?—?why So you need sufficient aggregation, correlated with heavy customer acquisition and branding costs, in order to create the asset class of reasonable credit exposure. Thus the hypocrisy of human nature.

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CB Insights

JANUARY 6, 2019

From supply chain and inventory improvements to new payment options, these brands are going all in on digital. Key People: Anthony Gregorio, Innovation Lab Senior Manager; Prat Vemana, VP Online; Albert Vita, Director of Strategy Insights. The Home Depot also operates a secondary lab out of Austin called BlackLocus.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 1, 2020

They’ve seen it since they started working on the ground in Africa in 2006 to develop an online booking system for a small Kenyan airline looking to make themselves more appealing to foreign customers. No one calls this eCommerce.,” Feinstein said. But the potential, he said, is there. We don’t need to build new technology to do that.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Around the middle of the twentieth century, there was what The Atlantic called a “Cambrian explosion” of brands. Tide, Crest, Band-Aid, Lipton, and other branded packaged goods — and the conglomerates that manufactured them — reigned. Store brands from retailers were seen as down-budget choices. Table of Contents.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2019

The two companies already have a payments partnership, one that involves Walmart MoneyCard program and which launched in 2006. It features cash-back rewards for Walmart purchases, enables direct deposit and a 2-day advance on earnings deposited there, online bill pay and other benefits. But news broke late Tuesday afternoon (Oct.

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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. The company’s assets were acquired by Q Holdings in 2015, and the firm quietly relaunched the Quirky brand in 2017. This would be Munchery’s downfall.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2019

The next big name in the game, Hammacher Schlemmer – which is still currently open and operational – decided to zoom in and specialize while Montgomery Ward was expanding outwards. In 2006, there were 19.8 A Brief History of US Catalogs. But, as it turns out, that view is a little skewed. billion catalogs shipped to U.S.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

In 2006, investment banks were at the top of the finance world. While the rules against prop trading have more recently been loosened, the restriction has still changed how investment banks operate. Even as the regulation pendulum swings back toward more limited oversight, how investment banks operate is fundamentally changing.

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CB Insights

MAY 23, 2019

Pixelon: Online video vaporware. The Honest Company’s branding and promotional materials claimed that the firm’s goods were free of synthetic chemicals. Rishi Shah and Shradha Agarwal founded healthcare information startup Outcome Health in 2006 while the pair were still studying at Illinois’ Northwestern University.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 16, 2018

The online bookseller didn’t turn a profit for six years — today, it’s the second publicly traded company ever to hit a $1T market cap. 2006: Nurture your seedlings to build big lines of business. In fact, in 2017, all of Amazon’s operating income came from AWS, a once-risky bet on a “dreamy” business idea.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2018

That Apple uses its closed ecosystem and the power of its brand to disadvantage others by denying access or imposing frictions on competing services like Spotify. Before there was Google Pay , there were three earlier versions of Google payments, starting with Google Checkout in 2006. The Four” Don’t Have a Monopoly on Good Ideas.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 10, 2017

An explosion of new consumer finance brands is transforming how people save, spend, and manage their money. And as Check worked its way up to a $360M acquisition, what started out as an aggregator for various web services — from social to shopping — became a mobile app dedicated solely to paying your bills online.

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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. While still in operation, Google+ is hardly anybody’s favorite social network. Zune, Microsoft (2006). EZ Squirt Ketchup, Heinz (2006).

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CB Insights

MARCH 2, 2018

Amazon is focused on globilizing its branded Marketplace, and will spend billions of dollars over the next decade to bring its model of low prices, vast selection, and fast delivery to the world. They also know how successful a retailer can be if it builds a leading e-commerce presence and brings a country into online retail.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 14, 2017

In the process, these brands, spanning everything from detergent to sneakers, are radically changing consumer preferences and expectations. These well-positioned startups are not just competing with some of the biggest retail brands in mattresses, razors, shoes, and more, by launching their own brands.

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CB Insights

MAY 3, 2018

After conducting research backed by DARPA — the same defense agency that helped spawn the internet — Dr. Robert Finkelstein proposed the creation of a brand new arm of the US military, a “Meme Control Center.” In 2011, a university professor with a background in robotics presented an idea that seemed radical at the time.

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