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Quickly Unpacking Visa’s $5.3B Acquisition Of Plaid

Haystack

Plaid is known within the startup and VC community as a strong company, but it is also a relatively quiet company in terms of its own PR and social media chatter. How could Twilio become a public company with an API-driven business model? Earlier today, the news leaked that Visa was to acquire fintech startup Plaid for $5.3B.

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What’s Your VC Tech Stack? Results from a Survey of Early-Stage VC Funds

David Teten

Our proprietary data science tool cumulatively looks at 100+ factors within 6 macroscopic categories: Team, Financial Performance, Customer and PR traction, Industry and Competition, Product and Brand value, Valuation, and Exit probability, to quantify an investment “Merit Score”.

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Deciding What to Decide

Austin Startup

Do you need to pour more dollars into marketing and PR? Deciding to tinker with pricing without taking into account the overall business model and customer profile is most often a wrong-headed move. One could come up with similar example in all aspects of a business. Are you marketing in the right places? I could go on.