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We analyzed 7 of the fastest-growing personal finance apps of all time to figure out the secrets to their success — here’s what we learned

CB Insights

It’s even harder when your target market would rather never think about what you’re trying to sell them — retirement, for example. Below, we’ll show you: How to use pre-launch marketing to build trust and hype. Use pre-launch marketing to build both trust and hype. WHY ARE THEy SUCCESSFUL?

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From Alibaba to Zynga: 21 Of The Best VC Bets Of All Time And What We Can Learn From Them

CB Insights

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. By 2008, The Point was struggling.

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We Analyzed 9 Of The Biggest Direct-to-Consumer Success Stories To Figure Out The Secrets to Their Growth — Here’s What We Learned

CB Insights

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. No need to choose.

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Why Peer-to-Peer models struggle against oligopoly

Lex Sokolin

Certainly one way to look at the explosion of file sharing is to focus on the absolute figures of people consuming media for free. 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. It is a worse user experience to avoid it.

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