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20 Banking Realities for 2020

Gonzobanker

In the years 2010-2020, new tech adoption transformed customer expectations. Community banks and credit unions do not fear each other. Here’s a great question for community bank executives: What would it take for your local competitors to fear you as much as a Top 5 player? We are entering the “tech decade” in banking.

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Uber of X: Kango is The Uber of Ride Share For Kids

PYMNTS

In 2010, research from the CDC showed there were nearly four million births per year in the United States. We experimented and tested each release with beta customers, got some initial traction, and networked in the startup community. That equals close to approximately 11,000 babies born every day in just one country.

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Why The Next Big Connected Commerce Play Is Television

PYMNTS

That might not be a crazy assumption: Reports from Nielsen reveal that television viewership by that demographic has declined more than 40 percent since 2010 and is off 11 percent year over year for the older half of millennials aged 25 to 34. Popeil started buying remnant ads that would run at odd hours at $7.50 a minute in the early 1960s.

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37 Corporate Innovation Labs In Finance

CB Insights

DBS leaders expect to see more than 5,000 people actively innovating DBS’ services and operations at DAX each year. It operates two labs, one in Washington DC and the other in New York City, which focus on ventures that can have a significant business impact in the short term (from six months to three years). Founded: 2010.

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242 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

CB Insights

The Pivot : We came up with a fresh take on the plethora of AR-style apps that create visual effects based on face detection and tracking… [Poor user experience] had a big impact on our retention metrics. Three notable excerpts: First Attempts : Blin.gy We needed 40% day-one returns and were closer to 25%. The clock kept ticking.

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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

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 Later, the retail giant sold its entire e-commerce operations in China to JD.com. When Snap Inc. Walmart participated in a $1.5B

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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

Build a better customer experience: How to build an end-to-end brand. The 28,000+ subscriber community of obsessives that has fueled Soylent’s growth. in 2010 and nearly $70M in 2013. Glossier founder Emily Weiss started her blog Into the Gloss in 2010 while still an intern at Vogue.

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