PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2017

Six days and a website called airbedandbreakfast.com later, three people had paid Joe Gebbia and Brian Chesky $80 a night to sleep on those air mattresses on their living room floor and eat the breakfast they cooked for them the next morning. Two years after the successful sale of that broken laser pointer, Omidyar raised $6.7

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Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 4, 2019

However, debit cards don’t help in establishing credit for the estimated 45 million American adults without a credit score ( see note 1 ). It used to be easy (perhaps too easy) to get your credit established. credit bureaus are now allowing rental history to count towards your credit score. youth to obtain a credit card.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 1, 2017

Social Capital has emphasized its mission-driven nature, making explicit its intention to advance technology and companies that will help solve global inequality and unevenly distributed opportunities. Since launching their first fund in 2011, Social Capital has raised approximately $1.2B CB Insights Note. What’s a Teardown?

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CB Insights

MARCH 6, 2019

We analyzed 101 startup failures to bring you the reasons why startups don’t make it. Despite their efforts, 70% of upstart tech companies fail — usually around 20 months after first raising financing. want to know THE TOP 20 REASONS STARTUPS FAIL? Download the full 25-page report. Table of Contents. Powa Technologies.

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CB Insights

MAY 23, 2019

A promising new idea — especially if it’s pitched by the right person — can essentially win an entrepreneur a blank check to bring their vision to life or help a fledgling venture fund land its all-important first investments. We analyzed 101 startup failures to bring you the reasons why startups don’t make it.

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CB Insights

JUNE 6, 2019

On one end, you have Solyndra, a controversial company that fell apart after raising $1.2B (including more than $500M from the federal government) when the price of polysilicon — a solar panel component to which they were building a cheaper alternative — entered a steep decline. want to know THE TOP 20 REASONS STARTUPS FAIL?

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Building a product that people want is hard. It’s even harder when your target market would rather never think about what you’re trying to sell them — retirement, for example. The result of getting your product right, however, can be exponential growth so fast it’s hard to wrap your mind around.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Imagine a future where parents can create bespoke babies, selecting the height and eye color of their yet unborn children. In fact, all traits can be customized to one’s preferences: the size of domestic pets, the longevity of plants, etc. It sounds like the backdrop of a dystopian science fiction novel. Yet some of this is already happening.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Imagine a future where parents can create bespoke babies, selecting the height and eye color of their yet unborn children. In fact, all traits can be customized to one’s preferences: the size of domestic pets, the longevity of plants, etc. It sounds like the backdrop of a dystopian science fiction novel. Yet some of this is already happening.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2017

.” In the spirit of failure, we dug into the data on startup death and found that 70% of upstart tech companies fail — usually around 20 months after first raising financing (with around $1.3M 2017 Second Update (6/9/17). 2014 First Update (6/3/2014). Title: My Mobile AR Start-Up Died So Yours Doesn’t Have To.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 14, 2017

These direct-to-consumer, or D2C companies, are able to manufacture and ship their products at much lower costs than traditional consumer brands because they own all of their customers’ data and maintain end-to-end control over the making, marketing, and distribution of products. New Frontiers in Retail Tech.

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CB Insights

JUNE 7, 2018

These profiles help researchers understand consumer motivations and opinions that can then drive messaging tactics. This could provide insight into why someone might buy a specific product, support a given cause, vote a certain way, and much more. However, it had already started gaining media attention even before its Facebook moment.

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