CB Insights

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Date: Sep 29, 2008. While Wendy’s was never really in a position to unseat McDonald’s as the country’s top fast-food burger chain, its 2008 acquisition by Nelson Peltz (the billionaire owner of Arby’s) and merger with the roast beef sandwich chain never got it any closer to fast-food dominance. Date: July 1, 2008.

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PYMNTS

MAY 25, 2016

The firm at the time of its IPO may not have had profits, but it did have 54 million active members on its site globally (up from 1 million members when it started in 2008). But hopes remained high for much of Etsy’s early public run. Etsy was also home to 1.4 million active sellers and 19.8 Well perhaps that is a bit overly enthused.

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Mobile Marketing Leadership Operations 101

Jeff For Banks

APRIL 21, 2012

jfb note: I was impressed that a bank experiencing difficulties would speak about leadership instead of regulators, borrowers, lenders, etc. jfb note: Always great to know because institutional investors own a significantly greater portion of community banks now than pre-2008, which leads to the next quote. It inspired this blog post.

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 22, 2024

PwC: Maintains leadership in consulting, expanding services in digital transformation and cybersecurity. Personal Capital (acquired by Empower Retirement): Wealth management platform, introduced new financial planning tools. Note : You can watch all the 320 award-winning demos (as well as 2,000+ others) on the Finovate website.

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 31, 2022

Edlund adds that ANB also does working capital lending, energy lending and real estate and development lending. Capitalizing on an area’s growing popularity. Daspit, who is based in Baytown, Texas, has held leadership roles in his local Rotary Club and at the United Way. There’s really not a lot we can’t do,” Edlund says.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Founded: 2008. Associated funds: Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation (JJDC) is the venture capital arm of Johnson & Johnson and falls under the umbrella of Johnson & Johnson Innovation. Sometimes corporate innovation goes wrong , and we’ve written about corporate innovation theater before.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

The result is an eminently quotable collection of homespun investing wisdom: “Price is what you pay, value is what you get.” ( 2008 ). Brown “stand in the shoes of owners” and truly weigh whether the capital cost of a project was worth the potential results — and if they had a conviction, to have a big incentive to bet on their abilities.

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Independent Banker

JUNE 30, 2022

So, when the community bank’s leadership learned of a fintech that needed a bank partner to launch a credit-building tech product, they were intrigued. First Capital Bank. TriState Capital Bank. So that’s where the capital to start New Haven Bank came from.”. TriState Capital Bank. Lee’s Summit, Mo. Charleston.

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CB Insights

MARCH 6, 2019

To some, Silicon Valley startup culture was as much to blame for Theranos’ failure as the company’s leadership. Select investors : Amazon, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Bowman Capital Management LLC. Though it didn’t succeed, it paved the way for others to re-imagine social influence and how we capitalize on it.

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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. Select Investors: CapitalG, Goldman Sachs Investment Partners, Pritzker Group Venture Capital. Select Investors: BlackRock, Norwest Venture Partners, Sands Capital.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

2022 was the year the fintech industry and venture capital firms figured out that banking is harder than everybody thought. 2008 called and wants its headlines back. It’s hard to understand how Clobes has time in the day to drive her unlimited amount of leadership activities. What an amazing leadership story.

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CB Insights

JUNE 6, 2019

But what Solyndra’s investors and the government didn’t see — or didn’t understand the importance of — was that the price of polysilicon was on the decline as early as 2008. Magazine, and the company picked up $40M in VC capital from Index Ventures. By December 2011, it was under $30/kg.

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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. 2008: Work backwards from customer needs to know what to build next. 2017: Build high standards into company culture.

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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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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 20, 2016

Benchetrit has a degrees in Computer Science from Mamram – IDF Computer Science Academy and The Open University of Israel, and graduated from the Cranfield Leadership Programme at Cranfield University’s School of Management in 2013. Founded in 2007, Zopa demonstrated its technology at FinovateSpring 2008.

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Jeff For Banks

APRIL 14, 2022

A Primer on Money, Banking, and Gold 2008 Cordelia Frances Biddle Biddle, Cordelia Frances Biddle, Jackson, and a Nation in Turmoil: The Infamous Bank War 2021 Alan S. Oil Capital: The History of American Oil, Wildcatters, Independents and Their Bankers 2016 Dwight L. 2008 Richard P. Bernanke Bernanke, Ben S.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) accused him of “gutless leadership.”. Wachovia’s misdeeds are Wells Fargo’s problem since Wells bought out the bank as part of a government forced sale in 2008 to prevent Wachovia from failing. That debt had been sold by Wachovia’s capital markets division. Among other things, Rep.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2017

But growth also hinges on access to capital, especially for small businesses, which have long been the major drivers of economic output in the United States. The traditional banking system has shied from opening the lending spigots to SMBs in the wake of the financial crisis of 2008. It also means less money in the hands of borrowers.

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CFPB Monitor

JANUARY 9, 2017

Mr. Atkins is an attorney who served as a commissioner on the SEC from 2002 to 2008. Jordan is currently President and CEO of a government relations firm that specializes in strategic business development and President of the National Black Republican Leadership Council. Consuala “CJ” Jordan. Julie Bell Lindsay.

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