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Solve This Problem with Your Strategic Horizon

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In comparison, investments in new technology or new business lines pale in comparison to other strategic investments due to the time and effort it takes to get a business line off the ground. Demographics shift, products change and technology drives channel preferences. This, however, could be a mistake.

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Report: Companies Say Amazon Accessed Proprietary Info To Make Its Own Products

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Four years ago, the eCommerce giant’s venture capital fund invested in the Seattle-based company and gained access to the technology startup’s finances and other confidential information. In 2010, Amazon invested in LivingSocial , the daily deals website, gaining a 30 percent stake, the WSJ reported.

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Data Shows 42 Pct Of Small Cap US Businesses Failing To Turn Profit

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The number is the highest since 2010’s 44 percent, the index says. Technology groups have powered the buoyancy of those firms, the Financial Times reported. That group has seen a 129 percent gain and its market capitalization has hit over $14 billion, the Financial Times wrote, over $5 billion ahead of the runner up.

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UK’s Metro Bank To Buy P2P Lender RateSetter For At Least $3.27M

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The two companies “share a focus on delivering something better for the customer,” RateSetter CEO Rhydian Lewis said in the release, adding there was a “strategic logic” to marrying RateSetter’s technology platform with Metro Bank’s “strong deposit base.”. RateSetter, founded in 2010, said it is “the U.K.’s

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Discount eCommerce Platform Wish Files $1B IPO

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Additional participants include Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, UBS Group, RBC Capital Markets and Credit Suisse Group. The Silicon Valley company was co-founded in 2010 by former Google engineer Peter Szulczewski, who serves as chief executive officer and controls 65.5 Goldman Sachs, J.P. billion in revenues from January to September.

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Marqeta Expanding Overseas, Sets Up Shop In The UK

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financial technology startup backed by Goldman Sachs , is expanding overseas. Marqeta was founded in 2010 and has raised $116 million in venture funding, with the most recent round led by ICONIQ Capital and including Goldman Sachs as an investor. Marqeta , a U.S. In addition to Goldman Sachs, Marqeta is backed by Visa.

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DocuSign Invests $15M In Seal Software For AI Contract Analysis

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The two companies have a previously existing partnership in which Seal’s technology is distributed through DocuSign’s platform extension program. “We Seal’s technology works with DocuSign’s Total Search, which lets users locate and organize digital agreements with metadata, and search throughout them using natural language terms.

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