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Gitcoin Grants Round 7 Retrospective

Vitalik Buterin

Yearn , a collateralized-lending platform. The remaining question is, of course: how sustainable will these incentives be? The user experience worked well. Optimism , a layer-2 optimistic rollup. The Ethereum Foundation. Balancer , a decentralized exchange. Synthetix , a synthetic assets platform. MEME, a memecoin.

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THE 16TH ANNUAL GONZOBANKER AWARDS

Gonzobanker

Mergerama Region of the Year – The Midwest: Huntington-First Merit, Chemical-Talmer, Old National-Anchor … the list goes on. Or the need to take market share in a slowest growth region? The 2016 Gonzo Marketing Medal – Goes to Elevations Credit Union for its “Egg Lending” campaign. Vendor: “Yes, of course.”.

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THE 16TH ANNUAL GONZOBANKER AWARDS

Gonzobanker

Mergerama Region of the Year – The Midwest: Huntington-First Merit, Chemical-Talmer, Old National-Anchor … the list goes on. Or the need to take market share in a slowest growth region? The 2016 Gonzo Marketing Medal – Goes to Elevations Credit Union for its “Egg Lending” campaign. Vendor: “Yes, of course.”.

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Who Will Disintermediate The Intermediaries?

PYMNTS

For the first time, local and regional DVD rental stores aside, people across the U.S. That was until Amazon branched out of books and niche players like Etsy provided a different and better product selection with a cleaner user experience less than a decade later. All of these same forces are disrupting banking and lending.

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Why The Next Big Connected Commerce Play Is Television

PYMNTS

But why then, you might ask, are so many pure-play eTailers, whose target audience is the millennial — like The RealReal and Rent The Runway , new marketplaces like OfferUp , deal aggregators like Groupon , alt lenders like SoFi and alt lending platforms like LendingTree — buying pricey blocks of airtime on CNN and CNBC to promote their brands?

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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. Users May Withdraw Stored Bitcoin until July. Three notable excerpts: First Attempts : Blin.gy The clock kept ticking.

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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

Lending Club made changes to its business model that created new opportunities for growth. Lending Club. Of course, Thiel is in part being provocative. Of course, sometimes startups and investors stand to gain more if they sell to more dominant competitors. King Digital Entertainment. Delivery Hero. Stemcentrx.

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