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The 2023 GonzoBanker Awards

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In addition, it has has opened more than 400,000 debit cards and is opening as many as 75,000 per month, creating a whole other disruption risk we need to discuss. Venmo and Cash App have moved to add merchant adoption as the big revenue opportunity for their growth and the potential for alternative payments displacing cards is real.

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Amazon HQ2, JPM Coin And The Weird, Wild Week Of Payments’ Left Turns

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The Crystal City, Virginia HQ2 plans are still underway, as are plans for a new operations hub in Nashville. The launch of the new mobile wallet will be paired with a Kroger Rewards debit card due out this spring, which will reportedly offer double rewards for customers when used concurrently with Kroger’s new mobile wallet.

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55 US Companies That Became Unicorns In 2018

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New York, Boston, Chicago, and Nashville, among other cities, all played host to newly minted unicorns last year. Company Description: Based in Nashville, Tennessee, SmileDirectClub provides at-home teeth-straightening kits. Its analytics program scans social media platforms for signifiers of breaking news and events.

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11 Lessons From Startup Chapter 11s

CB Insights

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. This was the problem that Nashville-based music metadata service Dart Music aimed to solve.

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