CB Insights

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Date: October 2011. With Apotheker fired in 2011 for a slew of missteps that had contributed to the company’s massive losses, nothing ever came of the acquisition. Date: August 15, 2011. And in the short-term, that would have looked like a good deal, as the social media site hit its peak in 2007 at a value of about $12B.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 23, 2018

In this analysis, we’ll explore the immediate and long-term challenges facing the CPG industry, as well as the business strategies that CPG brands are using to adapt. Pinnacle Foods, which owns Vlasic pickles and other brands, has been targeted by activist investor Jana Partners. Short-term challenges. Medium-term challenges.

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Branding Industry Retail Strategy 73

PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2017

“In the war for the coveted consumer dollar, brands need a deeper understanding of the intent, interests and motivations of consumers who shop online. Founded in 2011, Captify, like many of the firms we profile, was created to solve a problem — Google was destroying the traditional advertising industry.

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CB Insights

JUNE 6, 2019

Declared Bankruptcy: 2011. By December 2011, it was under $30/kg. By September 2011, Solyndra’s business model had fallen apart. By September 2011, Solyndra’s business model had fallen apart. Founded: 2011. Dart Music. Earth Class Mail. Founded: 2005. Total Funding: $1.2B. Declared Bankruptcy: 2018.

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CB Insights

MARCH 6, 2019

After soaring to a multi-billion-dollar valuation behind an iconic founder, a team of prominent backers, and a promise to revolutionize blood testing, Theranos officially ceased operations in 2018. That July, it banned Holmes from owning or operating a lab for two years. The rise and fall of Theranos.

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PYMNTS

MAY 6, 2019

The notion that Facebook is going to launch and ignite a global payments network, at scale, based on its own branded cryptocurrency and achieve global merchant and consumer acceptance is as likely as the predictions a decade ago that bitcoin and blockchain would, by now, become the internet of money. Curtain Call: The media goes nuts.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Social media is also helping campers discover new places to visit, then share their experiences with others: 30% of millennials said that they picked a camping spot after seeing someone else go there. As with many industries in today’s information economy, millennial travel trends are strongly influenced by social media.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2017

That may sound exciting, but brain tech is one area where the social media giant is playing catchup with the broader scientific community. ” Their device is similar to one that was shown to restore memory and improve information recall in rats (per a study in 2011 ). Robotic commands from the nervous system.

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Training System Data Study 58

CB Insights

MAY 1, 2018

Product innovation is one way that large corporations stay competitive in a rapidly changing marketplace, but it doesn’t always work out when big brands attempt innovation. BlackBerry PlayBook, BlackBerry (2011). Google+, Google (2011). While still in operation, Google+ is hardly anybody’s favorite social network.

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CB Insights

MAY 3, 2018

In 2011, a university professor with a background in robotics presented an idea that seemed radical at the time. After conducting research backed by DARPA — the same defense agency that helped spawn the internet — Dr. Robert Finkelstein proposed the creation of a brand new arm of the US military, a “Meme Control Center.”

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Lex Sokolin

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The core premise at its founding was to recreate the dynamics of the sharing and social media revolutions. So you need sufficient aggregation, correlated with heavy customer acquisition and branding costs, in order to create the asset class of reasonable credit exposure. And this realization takes us to Lending Club.

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