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The Only Thing to Hate About Personal Finance Management Is the Term ‘PFM’

Javelin Strategy & Research

I said that in first PFM report for Javelin in 2009, and I’ve repeated it in the seven reports since, most recently in “Managing Money in the ‘Mobile-First’ Era: A Blueprint for On-the-Go Personal Finance Management.”. The simple fact is: PFM in a tab is – and always will be – a disappointment in terms of consumer adoption.

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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

Alibaba first invested soon afterward, participating in the company’s $12M Series B in 2009. The company started building self-driving car technology 10 years before Google launched its self-driving efforts in 2009. To do that fully, UCWeb needed investment. In 2008, Jack Ma and Yu Yongfu met for the first time.

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