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SMB Alt-Lending Gears Up For Another Industry Shakeup

PYMNTS

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. The level of market volatility hitting the U.S.

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

Lex Sokolin

How does software operate? Where does it operate? 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. Who secures it?

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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. Three notable excerpts: First Attempts : Blin.gy We needed 40% day-one returns and were closer to 25%. The clock kept ticking.

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Bitcoin: 10 Years Of Smoke And Mirrors

PYMNTS

Ten years after PayPal launched, it was operating in 190 countries and had 60 million users. Ten years after Amazon launched, it was nearing 70 million users and had just launched Amazon Prime. Investments in cybersecurity measures, by comparison, are expected to reach nearly $97 billion this year.

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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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Retail’s Adapt-Or-Die Moment: How Artificial Intelligence Is Reshaping Commerce

CB Insights

Operations are scheduled to begin in 2018. When fully operational, the system will make one T-shirt every 22 seconds. It appears much of the heavy lifting will be done by the AI-driven robots, with human workers taking over jobs around robot maintenance and operation. We will install 21 production lines. online solutions.

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We Analyzed 9 Of The Biggest Direct-to-Consumer Success Stories To Figure Out The Secrets to Their Growth — Here’s What We Learned

CB Insights

There’s no way to know: “It’s difficult to comparison shop because many manufacturers sell exclusive lines to retailers. Now the company is on track in 2017 to do more than $50M in revenue, according to Campfire Capital. Los Angeles : The arts capital of the world. This ethos helped the company raise its $17.5

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