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CPG Companies Capitalize On Dramatic Digital Shift

PYMNTS

By way of comparison, spending at brick-and-mortar drugstores was down 5 percent and total trips across CPG outlets were down 3 percent compared to the year-ago period during the week ending Aug. To capture consumer volume, eRetailers are improving their user experience and lowering product pricing,” says Mediapost.

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SMB Alt-Lending Gears Up For Another Industry Shakeup

PYMNTS

The level of market volatility hitting the U.S. and other nations around the world as a result of the global pandemic continues to draw comparisons to the 2008 financial crisis — so it’s only natural that analysts may turn to the past in an effort to predict what could lie ahead.

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How Hoteliers Can Tap Into Modular Sleeping Capsules

PYMNTS

The hotel business is notoriously capital-intensive: Long before a property opens, a hotelier often invests millions in obtaining a property and constructing a building. The idea is to build the user experience in such a way that guests can complete essential functions of their stay through their phones. The Market.

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J.P.Morgan’s Quorum becomes part of ConsenSys

Lex Sokolin

The venture capital games of embedded finance , open banking, PSD2 and API, all of these revolve around the premise that banks are behind on cloud technology and do not know how to package and deliver financial products to where they matter. As a comparison, we have always needed light, but the technology of light?—?from

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242 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

CB Insights

The Pivot : We came up with a fresh take on the plethora of AR-style apps that create visual effects based on face detection and tracking… [Poor user experience] had a big impact on our retention metrics. Unfortunately, we were not able to find our place in the market. Three notable excerpts: First Attempts : Blin.gy

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Bitcoin: 10 Years Of Smoke And Mirrors

PYMNTS

The innovation touted 10 years ago, that has garnered billions of dollars of venture capital (VC) funding, hasn’t turned out to be the “internet of money” as advertised. Take developing markets. A decade later, it has more than 26 million users who’ve sent and received more than 184 billion ($1.8 It isn’t because it won’t.

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From Alibaba to Zynga: 21 Of The Best VC Bets Of All Time And What We Can Learn From Them

CB Insights

In venture capital, returns follow the power law — 80% of the wins come from 20% of the deals. Get the 65-page report on teardowns for Union Square Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and more. JD.com took a huge risk by stepping into a major market and investor Capital Today made a $2.4B

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