PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

That enthusiasm for design in general first led Royer to be an early worker for bespoke men’s clothing firm Bonobos — but even back in his clothing days, he held onto a lasting fascination with the furniture market in general, and sofas in particular. But something simple, purpose build and of high quality for the middle market.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

That enthusiasm for design in general first led Royer to be an early worker for bespoke men’s clothing firm Bonobos – but even back in his clothing days, he held onto a lasting fascination with the furniture market in general, and sofas in particular. But something simple, purpose build and of high quality for the middle market.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2016

As one 29-year-old Silicon Valley marketing manager and former frequent Virgin flyer told The New York Times : “I think of [Virgin] as a young, hip airline. In fact, the addition of Virgin’s routes to Alaska will boost the latter’s share of the nationwide air travel market by a mere 1.5 percent slide compared to Q3 2014.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2018

In a 2014 podcast episode, Planet Money visited one Planet Fitness location that had signed up 6,000 total members – 20 times the number of people their building can serve –secure in the knowledge that less than half of the members don’t ever set foot in a gym again after that initial visit.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2017

Kate Rettker, senior marketing manager and manager of the Protein Bar’s mobile order-ahead process, said the company has tweaked its app design to feature more distinct pops of color and better menu functionality, including adding photography. But the Protein Bar’s relationship with LevelUp goes back further than that.

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

In 2014, mobile deposit capture technology became a staple for more than 3,000 banks and 33 million Americans. According to technology research firm Celent in Boston, the mobile user base will increase from 33 million in 2014 to 47 million in 2015. What’s in store for mobile in 2015? By James DeBello.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

We then distribute their products to markets where sharing makes sense. GG: In July 2014, our cofounder, James Riel, was out at a bar when his phone died. Although he had prior experience in sales and marketing, he needed both engineering expertise and investment to get his idea off the ground.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 27, 2018

There’s a rule of thumb at fast food and quick-serve restaurants (QSR): a seven-second reduction in customer wait time results in an average 1 percent gain in market share. A 2014 study by Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management found that’s the case, revealing evidence to support that seven-second rule of thumb.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2018

We were in those shoes in 2013 [and] 2014 when we were running our own eCommerce store,” ShipBob Co-Founder Divey Gulati told PYMNTS in an interview. “We The company is also eyeing same-day delivery, since the market is trending strongly toward same-day delivery. Two-day shipping just may not cut it in the future.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 16, 2022

Startups looking to raise capital have more options today thanks to evolving technology, regulation and market behavior. Initially, crowdfunding had adverse selection problems (e.g. only seeing deals that could not raise elsewhere), but now that it has matured, it’s becoming an option to other sources of early capital (eg. StartEngine.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2018

It’s not only for consumers, though: Alternative lending firm Kabbage recently found that mobile lending is on the rise among small businesses, with a more than 360 percent increase in the number of SMB loans accessed via mobile device between April 2014 and February 2018.

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Abrigo

AUGUST 6, 2019

FinCEN issued advisory FIN-2014-A008 with red flags that FIs should be on the lookout for to identify possible human trafficking. FIs must understand the industry, the markets, and the risks. Follow the FinCEN advisories and watch for future guidance in this growing market. The 12 major U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2018

Everyone remembers the snowpocalypse that wasn’t in March 2014, when weathermen warned New Yorkers to prepare for a winter storm straight out of the movie The Day After Tomorrow only to have that end-of-the-world weather turn out to be seven inches of gently falling snow. There are worse ways to spend a blizzard.

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PYMNTS

JULY 19, 2018

.” And while she first encountered the problem of middling to low-quality kids’ clothing in the hospital, Royer quickly realized it was more or less an epidemic issue in the market for baby clothes in general. A Boston location is set to open soon.

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2019

The last such store closed earlier this year in Boston. Indeed, when he was talking to potential Aspiration investors back in 2013 and 2014, he told Webster, his vision didn’t exactly spark confidence among the people with money. “It It made for some very short conversations,” he said. Aspiration Results.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

As PYMNTS is Boston-based, the company is, of course, excited to see Tom Brady take a shot at that sixth Super Bowl ring. million, and $1 million more than the cost to air a commercial during the 2014 Super Bowl. We in Boston hope for it to be our sixth! We are mostly kidding about that. million for 30 seconds of airtime.

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Gonzobanker

AUGUST 15, 2017

According to an estimate by Boston Consulting Group, “One-quarter of miles driven in the U.S. Over the last five years, banks and credit unions have been loosening underwriting policies to maintain competition in the growing auto market. Lenders aren’t seeing this only in the subprime market. This is a record high.

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PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2017

The Boston-based furniture and home goods retailers saw it stock price shoot up 20 percent to an all time high as earnings reports clocked in stronger than expected. Wayfair, went public in late 2014 and has 5,700 employees. By most accounts it has been a better than good week for the team at Wayfair. eps for the Q1 2017 quarter.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2017

With blizzard Stella faded like Blanche Dubois’ southern charm, Boston still had its winter chill. In 1996, California legalized medical cannabis; in 2014, Colorado did one better and legalized marijuana for adults over 21 for recreational use. Til next year — perhaps by then spring will finally come to Boston.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Founded: 2014. Innovation centers across the globe in Boston, London, California, and Shanghai serve as regional hubs that can connect with local entrepreneurs, scientists, and technologies. Founded: 2014. Boston Children’s Hospital — Innovation and Digital Health Accelerator (IDHA). Founded: 2014. Founded: 2015.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2016

Being too successful at flying under the radar, at best, confuses the target market or audience and, at worst, just misses them entirely. Open since 2014, it is one of two northern California hubs — the other being located about an hour up the road in San Francisco. It is a delicate balance, of course. So, what is Project Goldfish?

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Jeff For Banks

APRIL 10, 2015

At least we are not in Boston. A New Year of Volatility 2015 ushered in a whole new season of volatility in the bond and stock markets. In 2014, our GDP growth was +2.4%; in the fourth quarter, it was +2.2% Stock market volatility began after the plunge in oil prices, as fear of the effects on energy companies emerged.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

You can see it in how investors are putting money to work in both consumer-facing and B2B startups, and how startups and incumbents are forging new partnerships to move innovation faster to market. And therein lies the rub. And the Pays still haven’t. Source: PYMNTS.com survey of 2,185 consumers conducted on Aug. 25-31, 2020.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

She stayed with Bell and the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company for more than 30 years until her retirement. I’ve been writing about the impact of voice and commerce ever since Amazon hit the scene with Alexa in 2014. At the end of her three-decade-plus career, about 25 percent of the U.S. population had a phone in their homes.

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 10, 2015

Our last funding news for Kensho was in November 2014, when the company raised $15 million in a round led by Goldman Sachs. Pictured (left to right): Kensho Head of Strategy and Business Development, Adam Broun, and CEO Daniel Nadler demonstrating Warren at FinovateEurope 2014 in London.

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 7, 2016

“In this untapped market, Kreditech has already built and impressive trajectory – with yet a huge potential to tap into,” he said. His long tenure in finance and technology includes stints at Alior Bank, Microsoft, eBay, and The Boston Consulting Group.

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Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Market cap: $3.5B ( NASDAQ:EXFY) – Raised $301M ($263 in past 12 months via IPO) ( Crunchbase ). HQ: Boston. Tribal Credit. Bento for Business. Profit (was Swipedom ). 2019. – Linkedin : 17,200 followers. Twitter : 6,790 followers. – 283 reviews) (no reviews on TrustPilot). FAB Score = 305. – Founded: 2008. TrustRadius : 8.3 (276

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Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Market cap: $3.5B ( NASDAQ:EXFY) – Raised $301M ($263 in past 12 months via IPO) ( Crunchbase ). HQ: Boston. Tribal Credit. Bento for Business. Profit (was Swipedom ). 2019. – Linkedin : 17,200 followers. Twitter : 6,790 followers. – 283 reviews) (no reviews on TrustPilot). FAB Score = 305. – Founded: 2008. TrustRadius : 8.3 (276

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Reducing technology costs and local market savvy can enable community banks to become equal competitors in the mobile and digital footrace, but they’ll need to begin taking steps soon and planning strategically. Differences in digital preferences and habits can be found by geographic market (urban, suburban and rural) and age groupings.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

The introduction of Alexa in 2014, and the creation of a voice-activated ecosystem with tens of thousands of skills, is a more recent proof point of that value creation. I found that even the early adopters of that strategy, like Target, have seen their market share plateau. Some consumers will take the bait, of course, but most won’t.

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Tefkin

JUNE 3, 2014

By automatically tracking indexes, they offer investors the possibility to obtain market performance at a lower cost than a typical managed funds. and previously acquired ByAllAccounts for $28M (all transactions in 2014!). Additionally, more players are appearing making ETFs investment easier and more meaningful for private investors.

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

As a blogger/analyst/entrepreneur, it’s a mixed blessing when someone delivers on a market need you’ve been ranting about ( here and here ). The company launched in 2014 and spent 18 months nailing down the insurance deal with Hanover. I was directly involved in one such negotiation two months ago.

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Independent Banker

MARCH 15, 2015

But consumer visits to branches have been declining at a pace of 5 to 10 percent a year for all financial institutions alike, says Bob Meara, financial retail service analyst for the Celent, a Boston research and consulting firm. Source: ICBA NewsWatch Today, December 2014. However, Cornerstone Advisors Inc.—a 1% Don’t know.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Summary: Affordable footwear retailer Aerosoles struggled to compete in an tough apparel market as it looked to balance affordability and comfort with changing fashion trends, while competing with even cheaper fast fashion chains. Aeropostale had been owned by private equity firm Palladin Consumer Retail Partners since 2014.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 3, 2017

In a post on the USV blog , the firm noted that Flip is a market specific network in which “closing the loop of a transaction” – in this case, the sale or sublet of a lease – unlocks a network effect of benefits for users (ostensibly by making the lease-exchange market more fluid and data-driven with each transaction).

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

And before the dot com crash, Goldman Sachs’ IPOs did tend to jump an average of 293% from their starting price through their first Friday on the market — compared to 26% for the bank Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and 78% for Merrill Lynch. When Facebook went public in 2012, the stock fell 15% in its first few days on the market.

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PYMNTS

JULY 20, 2017

The foremost of these was Hansa Market, which hosts more than 24,000 black market drug listings. But just in case you thought all drug dealers were bad guys, many have applauded Hansa’s decision to ban the deadly drug, despite the ban’s implications for the free market. Literally ruins lives. ”

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