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Stripe Teardown: How The $35B Payments Company Plans To Supercharge Online Retail

CB Insights

Brothers Patrick and John Collison founded Stripe in 2010 in an attempt to gain share in online payments, a then-nascent market with seemingly boundless growth opportunity. Market opportunity. Leadership and board members. Stripe is ramping up its private market investments. Expansion into emerging markets.

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Fools Rush In: 37 Of The Worst Corporate M&A Flops

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While November 2010 saw the release of the new Windows Phone with a new platform, it never caught on with consumers. In a deal that aimed to open the Chinese coal markets, US heavy-equipment behemoth Caterpillar paid $677M in 2012 to acquire ERA Mining Machinery Ltd. Microsoft and Nokia. Date: April 25, 2014. Price: $7.9B.

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Community banks are thriving in Texas

Independent Banker

The 2020 Census quantified the growth many residents were already sensing: Austin grew by 33% between 2010 and 2020, earning it the rank of fastest-growing large metro. There’s really not a lot we can’t do,” says Travis Edlund, senior vice president and regional manager of the San Antonio market for Amarillo National Bank.

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The Thinker

Independent Banker

Jack Hartings and Mindy Kremer, marketing director for Mercer Health Hospital in Coldwater, talk in a patient care unit. With few underwater credits on its books, the bank continued to lend as others left the market—though it still faced the challenge of distressed sales depressing market values. “It Membership-Marketing.

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24 Lessons From Warren Buffett’s Annual Letters To Shareholders

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Market volatility. Buffett successfully lobbied the leadership of Coca-Cola — the largest position in Buffett’s portfolio, with his ownership share coming in at 6.2% — to cut back on “excessive” executive compensation plans. John Chambers, the CEO of Cisco, at Davos in 2010. Stock ownership. Image source: pValueWalk.

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11 Lessons From Startup Chapter 11s

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Coda Automotive was an early player in the electric vehicle market, an early failure, and a great example of why being early is not always an advantage — even if the future your company envisions is probably the right one. Another, larger problem was that the market for electric cars did not take off the way that Coda expected.

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17 Of The Biggest Startup Frauds Of All Time

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In January 2018, Outcome settled all pending lawsuits by the company’s investors on the condition that Shah and Agarwal step down from their leadership positions. Mozido had ambitious plans to revolutionize mobile payments in key markets including India, Africa, and southeast Asia. The Outcome. Total Funding: $263M.

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