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What Innovators Can Learn From Netflix

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But the one thing that might work is taking a page from the innovation playbook that Netflix seems to have written and followed over the last 22 years. In 2010, Blockbuster declared bankruptcy, a decade after famously telling Netflix, which then had $5 million in annual sales, to get lost when they suggested that Blockbuster buy them.

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Anthemis’ Williams: Fintechs in a race to become customers’ primary financial provider

Bank Innovation

Founded in 2010, London- and New York-based venture firm Anthemis Group focuses on early-stage and Series A fintech investments. Its total deployed and deployable capital amounts to […].

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Solve This Problem with Your Strategic Horizon

South State Correspondent

Strategic Horizon and Capital As mentioned, the problem that bank’s often run into when it comes to strategic planning is their time horizon is too short. The bank that will be around in the next 50 years will be one that develops the ability to build infrastructure now that allows for efficient innovation in the future.

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A Decade On, Lending Transformed By Crisis And Innovation

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And in lending, with the financial crisis in the rearview mirror, a decade on, invention – okay, innovation – has become a hallmark, at least in some corners. At the peak of the crisis, the delinquency rate was 10 percent in 2010, as underwater mortgages and foreclosures hit the headlines. Necessity is the mother of invention.

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Citi Ventures on the Lookout for Machine Learning Startups in 2018

Bank Innovation

EXCLUSIVE – Since its launch in 2010, Citi Ventures has focused on investments that are strategic to its parent, the global financial services provider Citigroup. But when your parent company is a bank that spans the world, you can get involved with a lot of things.

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Smartwatch And AI Startup Mobvoi Close To $1B Valuation With Google’s Help

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Mobvoi was Google’s first direct China investment following the exit of its search engine from the country in 2010. This will enable the capital markets to support the development of China’s core technologies and innovative capabilities,” the regulator said in a statement posted on its website. It also comes as the U.S.

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Analytical Flavor Systems Raises $4M To Further Develop AI Taste Platform

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According to a report in VentureBeat the New York startup raised $4 million in a series A round of funding that was led by Leawood Venture Capital and Global Brain. Other investors that participated in the round include Hyperplane Venture Capital, Bits x Bites, Cornes Technologies and others.

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