CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Modern-day retail is at an inflection point as retailers face struggling physical storefronts, massive debt, and inefficient operations, among other issues. Formerly beloved brands such as Aeropostale, American Apparel, and PacSun bit the dust in 2016, and the pace of retail deaths has accelerated since then.

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PYMNTS

JULY 3, 2018

Those unwanted products, in turn, can create headaches for retailers — and a business opportunity for the so-called secondary market. Retailer overstocks and excess inventory help to drive B-Stock, which facilitates the sale of some 70 million items each year via online auctions of various product categories and types.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 11, 2016

9) that it had secured $56 million in funding led by Revolution Growth, NewSpring Capital and Comcast Ventures. But Interactions , a 12-year-old virtual assistant startup out of Franklin, Massachusetts, has been amping up its language processing tech in order to meet full “functionality,” according to TechCrunch.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2017

Not until 2004 did cannabis become legal for non-medical use in certain areas of the country. One company that’s looking to capitalize on the cannabis market is startup on-demand delivery company greenRush. This is the marketplace that connects patients with retailers.

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PYMNTS

MAY 19, 2016

When it comes to retail bankruptcies, do you want the good news or the bad news first? The good news: In a marked departure from the months preceding it, no major retailers filed for bankruptcy protection this week. 1, 2004 and May 13, 2010. Bankruptcies. Way to rub it in, TJX. According to a ruling from the U.S.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2016

as one of seven major retailers who could face bankruptcy over the next two years, Sears CEO Eddie Lampert apparently felt the need to write a public blog post stating that the company had no plans to shut its Kmart stores , despite rumors to the contrary. A week after a report from Fitch Ratings named Sears Holding Corp.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

have a retail crisis — or a small business crisis? Which is why “fixing” retail must include giving SMB merchants the tools they need to compete in the very dynamic environment that now defines Retail U.S.A. So, what does this all have to do with retail? Here’s a question: Does the U.S. Here’s an answer. We have both.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2017

Almost twenty-two years later, another startup founded in 2004 in a living room (of sorts) — a dorm on the campus of Harvard University — could end up being eBay’s most promising buyer ever: Facebook. million from Benchmark Capital and changed its name to eBay. Speaking of online retailers, eBay went all out to court them.

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Independent Banker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

Above is the office’s historic retail building in earlier days. Countless urban downtowns have slipped into the economic fringes in recent decades as retailers and shoppers moved to suburban strip malls. despite being a capital city, was experiencing the same decline. Thurston First Bank makes a big move for a downtown’s future.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

The regions wealthiest families and individuals are competing for deals alongside venture capital firms, Chinese tech investors, and others. Sinar Mas Group has also invested in Ardent Capital. Ardent Capital, a Thai venture capital firm that seeks to develop startups addressing market gaps. Series A in Q2’15.

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Jeff For Banks

JUNE 2, 2023

Finally, resolution of failing financial institutions requires that the deposit insurance fund be strongly capitalized with real reserves, not just federal guarantee.” percent in 2004, a decline of 1.1 By comparison, non-high-tech industries lost 689,000 jobs between 2001 and 2002 but recovered the lost jobs by 2004.

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CB Insights

APRIL 17, 2018

For the third consecutive year, we worked with The New York Times to identify and rank the top 100 venture capital professionals from around the globe. Below are the detailed profiles of the Top 20 Venture Capital Partners. PROFILES OF THE TOP 20 VENTURE CAPITAL PARTNERS. Current Firm: First Round Capital (Founding Partner).

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Bankruptcy claims a marquee name in tyke-focused retailing, as the Amazon effect continues. The slowdown in new businesses being founded in the 1980s and 90s was largely quarantined to certain segments – especially retail, where corner stores and regional brands were falling to larger national chains. Toys R Us: Toys Were Us?

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Shopify’s founders launched the platform in 2004 as an online storefront for selling snowboarding gear, which was at the time known as Snowdevil. The team decided to rebrand not as a store in and of itself, but as a way for other online retailers to sell their wares via the web. Source: Shopify Investor Deck 2016.

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BankUnderground

JANUARY 21, 2021

The life market has become more concentrated over time while the non-life market has remained largely unchanged since 2004. There is also the threat of new entrants, particularly from existing insurers that can redeploy their capital by diversifying into new lines of business, which boosts competition.

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Jeff For Banks

JANUARY 18, 2014

and Janney Capital Markets at 2.1% No wonder retailers were slashing prices for the Christmas holiday spending season. Businesses are still cautious in capital spending. Dorothy has been with First Federal of Bucks County since November, 2004. Real GDP grew by 4.1%

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PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2017

Capital One took the financial world by storm by focusing their efforts on identifying underserved customer segments and accurately understanding the risks associated with those customers. DC: There is significant crossover between FinTech and InsurTech.

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CB Insights

JUNE 6, 2019

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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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The sequel, “ Meet The Fockers ,” released in December of 2004, was among the top-grossing films of 2005. It also keeps them from doing something they increasingly say they don’t want to do: Go into stores to buy retail products. It is also pretty hilarious.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Online retailers will be where we shop. I believe that this inflection point will accelerate the four big shifts that have been taking place right before our very eyes over the last decade — shifts that will now set the course for how every single player in payments and commerce and retail should be planning their 2017 and beyond.

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Jeff For Banks

MAY 31, 2022

Consider the cost of a Starbucks Venti Frappuccino: now retailing at $5.25 Dorothy has been with Penn Community Bank and its predecessor since November, 2004. His career has focused on how banks use capital markets strategies to manage risk and enhance earnings. in most locations, the cost of this massive coffee drink is up $0.50

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

In the US, legislation emerged to forbid investment banks from prop trading, or trading with their own capital, and forcing them to keep more capital on hand. However, the model doesn’t currently allow companies to issue new shares, meaning that DPOs do not raise any capital for the company. STAYING PRIVATE.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

The average millennial student debt load was $10,600 as of 2017 — about 2X more than what was owed by Gen X in 2004. Bank of America, Capital One, Chase, PNC, and Wells Fargo all offer digital and mobile banking options. Digit has raised $36M in venture capital to build out its service. It had over 2M users as of July 2019.

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CB Insights

JULY 19, 2017

Retail/Consumer Goods. Founded: 2004. Founded in 2004, Amazon’s Lab 126 is responsible for innovations like the Kindle, Fire, and Echo. Capital One. Innovation Lab Name: Capital One Labs. Retail/Consumer Goods. This post is broken up into sections. Click on a vertical to jump to it. Technology. Technology.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy only when others are fearful.” ( 2004 ). Each manager, in other words, would receive a portion of the company’s profits less the amount that they spent, in terms of capital, to generate those profits — a reminder to all that capital was not without costs. to buy half of.

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Jeff For Banks

MAY 4, 2020

The worst hit businesses with employees who are not fortunate enough to work have been retail stores, restaurants, bars, automobile sales, entertainment, sporting events, schools, airlines, and travel and vacation destinations. Dorothy has been with Penn Community Bank and its predecessor since November, 2004.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Bill Me Later was one of the earliest fintech payment platforms on the market and gave big retailers the ability to offer flexible financing programs. The company announced it would pass on the special card savings Amazon gets from card networks (because of the volume of purchases they can guarantee) to retailers that adopt Amazon Pay.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 16, 2018

2004: Free cash flow enables more innovation. The customer is more empowered than ever, and as a retailer, that means you’re never safe from your competition. Customers love it, it can grow to very large size, it has strong returns on capital, and it’s durable in time—with the potential to endure for decades. Just execute.

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 12, 2024

Innovations from 1995 to 2014 (with launch dates) Note: Ranking as of Jan 2014 Wells Fargo is first in the world to offer Web-statement access (launched May 1995) Security First Network Bank launches first full-service Internet bank brand (Oct 1995, disbanded 2002) PayPal launches first online optimized payment system (Nov 1999, bought by eBay in 2003) (..)

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Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 31, 2014

And surprisingly, fewer banks than anytime since 2004 were running holiday messages in the days before Christmas. But these are massive retail banks and I''d think that virtual holiday decorations would be in the branding budget. For the past 10 years, I''ve done a year-end post looking at holiday promotions at the largest U.S.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 29, 2018

In the early 2000s, venerable retailers Sears and Kmart began losing ground to Walmart and Target, with Kmart even filing for Chapter 11 in 2002. Eager to get in on the action and capitalize on the growing number of Latin American internet users, the Spanish telecom company Terra Networks purchased Lycos in a $12.5B Sears and Kmart.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

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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PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2018

His premise knits together a series of storylines that regular readers of PYMNTS are quite familiar with: That the Amazon Effect on retail , despite the company’s 4 percent share of it, is real and that it uses its diversified sources of revenue, like Amazon Web Services, to subsidize its retail business at the expense of traditional retail.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 4, 2018

At $150B, the current valuation of Ant trumps the market capitalizations of leading financial institutions around the world, from Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley to Banco Santander and The Royal Bank of Canada. In 2004, Alibaba Group launched Alipay to support online payment transactions on Alibaba.com and Taobao.com. Credit scoring.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 14, 2017

New Frontiers in Retail Tech. Download this research briefing to see how corporates and startups are shaping the future of retail with tech. They don’t need to rely on traditional retail stores for exposure. They’re competing more efficiently by rethinking not just the product, but also the retail model.

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