Growthink Blog

APRIL 2, 2012

To envision this, visit (or revisit) Kickstarter.com, and browse through the incredible diversity of cause and passion - based projects, from charitable to design to artistic to technological, crowd funded on a donations basis on the site.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

The technological breakthrough, announced in 2017 , is the “federated” component—the ability to train a machine learning model without a centralized repository of data: It works like this: your device downloads the current model, improves it by learning from data on your phone, and then summarizes the changes as a small focused update.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Access to the corporate investor’s ecosystem can open up great opportunities from technology validation to customer and partner development. We never seek any rights to give Amex preferential treatment at the time of a potential acquisition. It can help develop applications for the startup’s technology in its early days.

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thebarefootvc

JANUARY 15, 2020

acquisition of Plaid by Visa, in a highly competitive deal, shows how even the largest incumbents are feeling pressure to innovate and need to think outside of their current business models. No entity is immune to technology disruption. The recently announced $5.3B

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2017

CVS' proposed acquisition this week of health insurance giant Aetna is a big deal. For CVS and Aetna, theirs is a bold strategic stroke to build a more efficient healthcare delivery model in sync with our information economy and technological age.

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Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

It’s not for a lack of technological effort from both startups and huge companies in all of mobile payments’ incarnations – SMS, mobile web, native apps, NFC, etc. But nearly everyone has wrongly placed emphasis on the mobile technology part and not on the payments aspect. Chris Chaten. Any thoughts on Isis?

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