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. Marketplace lending. Marketplace Lending.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Allowing users to “cut” by referring other users was an innovative idea, and it worked. Mint had a more internal mechanism for showing that value — an algorithm that took a user’s financial information and sorted and categorized it upon first use of the product. The more people you refer, the faster you move up.

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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. Users May Withdraw Stored Bitcoin until July. Three notable excerpts: First Attempts : Blin.gy Product: BTCJam.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Lending Club made changes to its business model that created new opportunities for growth. Lending Club. In 2006, amidst high user growth and revenue numbers, several firms took part in Facebook’s Series B: Founders Fund, Interpublic Group, Meritech Capital Partners, and Greylock Partners backed the $27.5M

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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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