PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

It’s a thought that was triggered recently after reading and reflecting on recent developments across three innovations heralded as FinTech’s poster children — disruptors out to change the world and eat the proverbial lunches of incumbents they say are too big and too unmotivated to change. Blockchain. Marketplace lending. Digital banks.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Analysts at the time called this product “an historic opportunity” to bolster the merchant’s “corroding bottom lines,” and innovators rushed to build new applications to help them seize it. Cashless is now becoming king in stores, as merchants push digital over paper (and coin) in the name of efficiency and a better user experience.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 10, 2017

A host of startups have emerged to capitalize on this trend. The secrets of user growth. To build a successful personal finance management tool, it’s important to understand the dynamics of user acquisition and growth. Allowing users to “cut” by referring other users was an innovative idea, and it worked.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2017

But overpriced, over-hyped hardware products weren’t the only “innovations” we said goodbye to: we also recently witnessed the deaths of startups working in mobile AR, e-commerce, digital media, and more. Read on for post-mortems on 10 of the latest startups to bite the dust. Three notable excerpts: First Attempts : Blin.gy

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

In venture capital, returns follow the power law — 80% of the wins come from 20% of the deals. Get the 65-page report on teardowns for Union Square Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and more. JD.com took a huge risk by stepping into a major market and investor Capital Today made a $2.4B

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Lex Sokolin

OCTOBER 14, 2020

We think that Wells Fargo, and Bank of America, and the Federal Reserve, and the rest of “them”, whoever “they” are, are centralized monoliths running on papyrus and holding back innovation. The media industry has been able to deploy a business model that uses the Internet to deliver a better user experience when bundled with the law.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Every Harry’s razor has five blades, plus an extra one on the back for trimming in tighter spaces — the same blade quantity and layout as that of the Gillette Fusion5 first released in 2006. Now the company is on track in 2017 to do more than $50M in revenue, according to Campfire Capital. million Series B in September 2017.

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