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Decoupled Debit — Again?

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Analysts at the time called this product “an historic opportunity” to bolster the merchant’s “corroding bottom lines,” and innovators rushed to build new applications to help them seize it. The REDCard has seen its growth slow appreciably since 2013, the year of the infamous Target breach. And what was the product?

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Can FinTech Walk The FinTalk?

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It’s a thought that was triggered recently after reading and reflecting on recent developments across three innovations heralded as FinTech’s poster children — disruptors out to change the world and eat the proverbial lunches of incumbents they say are too big and too unmotivated to change. Blockchain. Marketplace lending. Digital banks.

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Build-Out: Investors And Executives Sound Off On Construction Tech

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The construction industry has seen increasing levels of development and discussion in recent years with $1.08B invested across 207 deals since 2013. Tracy Young capitalized on an opportunity to make construction more high-tech with construction collaboration platform and smart money VC-backed PlanGrid.

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37 Corporate Innovation Labs In Finance

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One popular approach: in-house financial innovation labs. We’ve created a list of finance innovation labs from some of the biggest names in the industry, as well as from newcomers looking to make a name through tech. We’ve written about corporate innovation theater before — and how sometimes corporate innovation goes wrong.

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We analyzed 7 of the fastest-growing personal finance apps of all time to figure out the secrets to their success — here’s what we learned

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A host of startups have emerged to capitalize on this trend. The secrets of user growth. To build a successful personal finance management tool, it’s important to understand the dynamics of user acquisition and growth. Allowing users to “cut” by referring other users was an innovative idea, and it worked.

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242 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

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But overpriced, over-hyped hardware products weren’t the only “innovations” we said goodbye to: we also recently witnessed the deaths of startups working in mobile AR, e-commerce, digital media, and more. Read on for post-mortems on 10 of the latest startups to bite the dust. Three notable excerpts: First Attempts : Blin.gy

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From Alibaba to Zynga: 21 Of The Best VC Bets Of All Time And What We Can Learn From Them

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In venture capital, returns follow the power law — 80% of the wins come from 20% of the deals. Get the 65-page report on teardowns for Union Square Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and more. JD.com took a huge risk by stepping into a major market and investor Capital Today made a $2.4B

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