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AUGUST 21, 2017

After hearing that a big conference was coming to San Francisco and that hotel rooms were totally sold out, two 27-year-old guys, who were living there in 2007 and struggling to pay rent, bought three airbeds and turned their living room into a makeshift bed and breakfast. Jeff Bezos started Amazon in his Bellevue garage in 1994.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

What pushed TV so quickly? Netflix would launch decades later and, by 2007, had also introduced television streaming. Six years after that, the streaming service would be nominated for and win its first Emmy for House of Cards , despite never having any of its shows aired on traditional TV.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 14, 2018

Perhaps the most glaring example of the tendency to dismiss innovative new players was when Apple’s iPhone hit the market in 2007. original iPhone. Sometimes disruption is staring you right in the face and you can’t help but look the other way. That’s doubly true when you’re the head of a legacy business desperate to stay relevant.

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MARCH 14, 2016

But that was the buzz – and the quote above that started the media hype-meter going into overdrive is from September 24, 2007. In fact, it’s not surprising at all that Revolution Money pretty much fizzled not long after the check cleared to the PR firm that wrote that September 2007 press release. What is it you ask? It’s normal.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 28, 2016

The path to faster payments in the U.S. doesn’t have to be paved with a 500+ person task force analyzing what the world would look like if we were starting from a clean sheet of paper, competing propositions for who’s going to build and operate a new set of rails, or even what sort of spiffy software can make existing rails faster. Yeah, right.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Perhaps the most glaring example of the tendency to dismiss innovative new players was when Apple’s iPhone hit the market in 2007. Here’s our guide on how corporations can use startups to innovate faster. Sometimes disruption is staring you right in the face and you can’t help but look the other way. Fully subsidized? With a plan?

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MAY 9, 2019

Every once in a while, however, a development emerges from one of these labs that pushes innovation forward and truly raises the bar for everyone else in the industry. Today, it seems like every large corporation has its own “ innovation lab.”. They have also, like startups, produced a lot of failures. Waymo (Google X).

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OCTOBER 4, 2018

Alipay quickly become the leading online payments service provider in China, claiming more than 50% market share and 47M users by 2007, according to Alibaba Group. Ant Financial was initially launched to support online payments. Today, it’s the largest fintech player globally. get the entire 54-page ant financial report.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The latest salvo comes from Square, where transactions were up 34 percent year over year among its retail merchant client base — you know, the ones in the field and on the ground, with the card readers. While everyone is gearing up for the Oscars, some of us may be in La La Land blithely ignoring smoke coming from the auto industry.

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OCTOBER 1, 2018

Ten years after Visa and Mastercard launched, they had each licensed their tech to thousands of banks that had cards in the hands of millions of consumers, who were using them to buy things at millions of merchants. The end of this month, Oct. Ten years after Amazon launched, it was nearing 70 million users and had just launched Amazon Prime.

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DECEMBER 14, 2017

Soylent — The subreddit that convinced a16z to invest in Soylent. An explosion of new direct-to-consumer companies is transforming how people shop. In the process, these brands, spanning everything from detergent to sneakers, are radically changing consumer preferences and expectations. New Frontiers in Retail Tech. How will we shop in 2020?

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