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How 60+ Startups Are Disrupting Retail And Commercial Banking Around The World

CB Insights

Both have access to significant financial capital to scale far beyond what’s available to even well-funded startup challengers. In April of this year, Revolut raised a $250M Series C from DST Global, Index Ventures, Ribbit Capital, and Rocket Internet at a $1.7B savings accounts. This year also saw Current raise a $2.8M

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What Is Psychographics? Understanding The ‘Dark Arts’ Of Marketing That Brought Down Cambridge Analytica

CB Insights

Psychographic marketing, which plays on subconscious personality characteristics, is perfectly suited to help advertisers capitalize on impulsive decision-making. According to Alan Bethke, Subaru’s Chief Marketing Officer, “A lot of manufacturers target customers based on pure demographics. Shake Shack & Chick-Fil-A.

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Finovate Fall 2016 Live Blog – Day 2

William Mills

After they bought CheckFree a lot of Fiserv folks have been based in Georgia. I met one of their newest board members recently, JD Sherman, President/COO of HubSpot (our content marketing partner) and I expect some cool stuff. Fiserv is a such a big player in our space. 09:08 am Econiq – [link] – @Econiq.