Jeff For Banks

MARCH 27, 2010

ING Bank is a pure Internet play that builds on its brand power and competitive rates to drive deposits in its virtual doors. As its brand evolved, ING and its well-known Orange savings account has been able to attract deposits that are not priced at the top of the market. At first, it was a pure Internet high cost money play.

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CB Insights

MARCH 6, 2019

Select investors : Amazon, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Bowman Capital Management LLC. Launched in February 1999, Pets.com sought to capitalize on widespread internet access and a $23B pet supplies market by selling products directly to consumers. Total funding : $161M. The rise and fall of Pets.com. Wall Street Journal.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2018

The first two seasons of “ Stranger Things ” were all about the efforts of Eleven — a paranormal psychic — and the townspeople living in the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana, to keep the hive mind from turning the real world into their upside down. Would that cab have a “broken” card reader and make you pay cash?

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

Had I been in town, I might have used Google to find a store near me in Boston that carried the brand I wanted so I could try before I bought. Brands today don’t even need stores – they can now go directly to the consumer, on channels like Instagram. I was traveling at the time, so that shopping experience worked really well for me.

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