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Why TOMS Shoes Is Putting A Toe In Brick-And-Mortar

PYMNTS

TOMS Shoes Founder Blake Mycoskie did not begin life dreaming of entrepreneurship, shoes or creating a socially conscious company. He wanted to be Indiana Jones. Those customers are also going to discover lots of shoes that look just like theirs that maybe don’t have as strong a social mission — or just aren’t as well made.

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SourceMedia’s Small Business Banking Conference Show – No Shortage of Innovation

William Mills

First up was WMA-client Baker Hill, based in Carmel, Indiana and provider of Baker Hill NextGen , a turnkey online loan application system with a roles-based modern user interface specifically engineered to adapt with the evolving needs of financial institutions. Baker Hill. www.bakerhill.com. RCGILTNER Services, Inc. 9spokes.com.

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Autopsy Report: 9 Startup Failure Stories And What We Can Learn From Them

CB Insights

Three months later, Amazon contributed to a $50M funding round earmarked for promoting the Pets.com brand. Soon after, the firm attempted to make up ground by selling merchandise featuring its popular sock puppet mascot and relocating a call center from San Francisco to Indiana. By the time Pets.com went public with an $82.5M

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Stupid Bank Names

Jeff For Banks

If your brand strives for assimilation, then go with it. But truth be told, MutualFirst Financial of Muncie, Indiana, the holding company for MutualBank, is publicly traded. K Bank - In today''s abbreviated texting and social media world, this is a bad name, K? Ask somebody outside of the re-branding process.

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Memes That Kill: The Future Of Information Warfare

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After conducting research backed by DARPA — the same defense agency that helped spawn the internet — Dr. Robert Finkelstein proposed the creation of a brand new arm of the US military, a “Meme Control Center.” In internet-speak the word “meme” often refers to an amusing picture that goes viral on social media.