PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2017

In the past two years alone, there have been 650 venture capital investments for artificial intelligence technologies — totaling more than $5 billion — and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) is predicting that figure will reach a market value of $70 billion by the year 2020.

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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. 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. First Round Capital blog post. MainInvest. 8 Mar 2022.

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Abrigo

MAY 8, 2015

This has the attention of the nation’s regulators and the Comptroller of the Currency, Thomas Curry, who recently spoke in Boston at the Interagency Outreach Meeting on the Economic Growth and Regulatory Paperwork Reduction Act.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Etsy is hardly alone: eCommerce is experiencing year-over-year growth of 14 percent, according to the Payments Powering Platforms Tracker , and merchants looking to capitalize on this rise must accept the preferred payment methods of their customers, which include everything from credit cards to PayPal to Venmo and everything outside and in between.

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Jeff For Banks

MARCH 26, 2011

It focuses on three strategy firms in particular: Boston Consulting Group ("BCG"), Bain & Company, and McKinsey & Company. Disclosure: I will typically have the reviewed book on my Amazon.com bookshelf on the right margin of this blog. This created fertile ground for strategy''s ascendancy and the firms that touted its virtues.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

In this review of failure, we’ve looked in our venture capital database to find the most well-funded startup companies that ultimately failed or had an undesirable exit, such as an asset sale or an acquisition for less than the total funding raised by the company. The 101 Biggest Product Failures Of All Time. Total Funding: Over $100M.

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PYMNTS

MAY 20, 2016

“The idea of curbside pickup is that shoppers are demanding the ability to get purchases however they want and wherever they want,” said Laura Kennedy, director of retail insights at Boston-based Kantar Retail. “A Though much has changed since the days of the carhop, it’s clear there’s still power at the curbside.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 3, 2017

A common self-congratulatory tactic is the look-back blog post spotlighting all of the potential the VC saw in the exited startup from its earliest beginnings. In a post on his blog , Shah says he met CARMERA founder Ro Gupta years ago, when Gupta was still on the founding team at Disqus , a blog comment hosting service.

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

You feel vindicated and you have a blog post that writes itself, but it knocks one thing off the top of your businesses-to-start list. And if you are Wells Fargo, Capital One, American Express, or Chase, just buy them outright already. The company launched in 2014 and spent 18 months nailing down the insurance deal with Hanover.

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CB Insights

MAY 10, 2018

Before Bruce Doolin Henderson opened the doors of Boston Consulting Group on July 1, 1963, the concept of “competition” barely existed in American business culture, let alone the concept of strategy. Bain, whose co-founders would go on to start Bain Capital, had a particular expertise in finance from the beginning.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2017

“The initial 7 years were all about having negative working capital, positive cash flow and a sustained ability to fund our own growth. I started treasuring GMV, room-nights and other ‘vanity’ metrics instead of the fundamentals of cash flow and working capital,” he explained. Those were the only metrics we tracked. Product: Bridj.

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