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How Digital Innovators Capitalize On Subscription Businesses

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Some providers are capitalizing on the concept by launching new services that offer access to premium content such as newspapers and magazines in exchange for a monthly fee. It would now include some 300 magazines — not only newspapers — for a monthly fee of just under $10 at $9.99.

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Meet Our 2023 FICO Decisions Awards Judges

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Douglas Blakey, editor, Retail Banker International. Douglas Blakey is group editor banking and payments at GlobalData and has edited Retail Banker International and Electronic Payments International since 2010. Burcu currently leads credit analytics and retail credits at Akbank, one of the largest retail banks in Turkey.

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

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That sense of purpose, paired with a savvy presence on social media, brought the business a large and devoted following — and has seen the firm expand from shoes to other environmentally sound and charitably oriented accessories like bags, hats and sunglasses. Social Entrepreneurship Done Right.

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

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Four days before John Carreyrou’s fateful Wall Street Journal report, The New York Times Style Magazine listed Holmes as one of “ Five Visionary Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Changing the World.”. Select investors : Amazon, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Bowman Capital Management LLC. The rise and fall of Pets.com. in 2000 to 232.1M

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11 Lessons From Startup Chapter 11s

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The marketplace blended crowdsourcing and social media to create hype around new inventions; help inventors find partners, funding, and manufacturing resources; and sell their gadgets to major nationwide retailers such as Home Depot and Target. The company expanded too aggressively in its early years. Declared Bankruptcy: 2018.

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Dear MBAs, AI is Coming For You: The Coming Wave of Expert Automation & Augmentation Software (EAAS)

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Institutional Investor’s Alpha magazine ranked the 25 best-paid hedge fund managers and 8 of the top 10 were algorithmic funds (not active managers). In June 2017, VCs including Greylock Partners, General Catalyst, NEA, and First Round Capital funded a law firm called Atrium in a $10.5M Series A round.

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Data’s Influence And Contactless Vending, In Style At Fashion Week

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In 1943, the fashion capital of the world at the time, Paris, was at war and under siege. In the era of the internet, Fashion Week became a full-blown media extravaganza that was live-streamed all over the world. The city was the home of the first-ever Fashion Week on Earth – and its original purpose was more practical than glamourous.

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