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Envel is the New Simple Bank (Fintech Startup of the Week)

Fintech Labs Insights

But, I think we have another strong contender with the latest challenger, Boston-based Envel. From the outside anyway, Envel looks to be a case study in leveraging partners’ technology to stitch together world-class features without building in house. It has the tech. It has the team. The company has publically announced $2.7M

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Killing Strategy: The Disruption Of Management Consulting

CB Insights

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. Expertise: An experienced operator’s perspective on a problem and the different ways that it can be solved.

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Amex Sizzles, Big Banks Fizzle And Indian eCommerce Lives Up To Its Sizzling Hype

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Fall has arrived in Boston and we are sizzling. In what was a huge blow for the DOJ who brought the antitrust case to court on behalf of merchants, the 66-page decision said that consumers weren’t harmed and if merchants didn’t like taking American Express cards because the fees were too high, they could just not take them.

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121 Of The Biggest, Costliest Startup Failures Of All Time

CB Insights

Australian music streaming company Guvera has reportedly stopped operating, with its co-founder and biggest financial backer walking away from the project. and a dearth of people with technical, operational experience running energy facilities. The lack of people with real operational experience “hurt KiOR a lot,” says O’Connor.

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242 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

CB Insights

After Amazon announced in March that it was planning to shut down Diapers.com and all the other eCommerce sites operated by Quidsi, the company it acquired in 2010 — the online retailer has pulled all of the Quidsi apps from its app store. Title: Amazon Pulls Quidsi Apps After Announcing Plan To Shut Down All Quidsi Sites. Product: Quidsi.

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