startups

Startup or start up is a company or project initiated by an entrepreneur to seek, effectively develop, and validate a scalable business model. Hence, the concepts of startups and entrepreneurship are similar.

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Bugcrowd Lands $26 Million To Crowdsource Corporate Cybersecurity
Bugcrowd Lands $26 Million To Crowdsource Corporate Cybersecurity
March 05, 2018  |  B2B Payments

Enterprise cybersecurity company Bugcrowd announced a funding round late last week for its solution that crowdsources cybersecurity for corporations. The company announced Thursday (March 1)...

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Startup Roundup: A Is For Automation
Startup Roundup: A Is For Automation
February 28, 2018  |  Startup Roundup

The whole point of startups is to do things differently than mainstream players, and that is exactly what these companies are doing with automation, interoperability...

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Circle Buys Crypto Exchange
Circle Buys Crypto Exchange
February 26, 2018  |  Partnerships / Acquisitions

Circle, the payments firm that operates an app-based peer-to-peer payments network based on blockchain and which has financial backing from Goldman Sachs, said Monday (Feb....

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FitPay Launches Contactless Payment Bitcoin Coin
FitPay Launches Contactless Payment Bitcoin Coin
February 26, 2018  |  Startup Check-In

What if bitcoin were actually a coin? FitPay has made it one. Flip, a new contactless payment device that the startup just made available for...

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Nanopay: Just Say No To Cryptos
Nanopay: Just Say No To Cryptos
February 23, 2018  |  Startup Check-In

The irony of cryptocurrency is that, the more mainstream it gets, the less it’s able to do what it was designed to do — that...

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Modo Strikes An Innovation Balance
Modo Strikes An Innovation Balance
February 23, 2018  |  Startup Check-In

Payments has a balancing problem, according to Modo CPO Matthew Leavenworth. There are two forces at odds, said Leavenworth: The growth of new ideas, entrants...

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Jewel Paymentech Takes On Marketplace Counterfeits
Jewel Paymentech Takes On Marketplace Counterfeits
February 22, 2018  |  Startup Check-In

Amazon and Alibaba may be the most high-profile eCommerce marketplaces, but they are far from the only ones, especially in smaller international markets, where hundreds...

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Airbnb Having A Bad Experience With Experiences
Airbnb Having A Bad Experience With Experiences
February 22, 2018  |  Merchant Innovation

Online home rental marketplace Airbnb has been trying to branch into new areas with its Experiences service, an offering that focuses on unique experiences for...

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SMBs Financed Via Personal Debt Less Likely Thrive, Study Finds
SMBs Financed Via Personal Debt Less Likely Thrive, Study Finds
February 20, 2018  |  B2B Payments

Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) that take on debt actually perform better than those that don’t, according to a new report, though analysts warned that...

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