Walmart Expands its Home Services Offerings via New Partnership with Angi

Walmart Expands its Home Services Offerings via New Partnership with Angi

Walmart is diversifying its offerings to include home services. Walmart has launched a new relationship with Angi (formerly Angie’s List) that would make service professionals…
Unpacking the UBS-Wealthfront Deal

Unpacking the UBS-Wealthfront Deal

UBS, the Swiss banking giant, said earlier today that it would buy venture-backed robo-advisor Wealthfront for $1.4 billion in cash. Wealthfront is one of a…
Collective Bargaining – a Negotiation of Employment Terms

Collective Bargaining – a Negotiation of Employment Terms

Collective bargaining is the process of negotiating employment terms between an employer and a group of workers. It is a process of negotiating agreements between…
Lessons from a Fintech Founder Solving for C by going B2B

Lessons from a Fintech Founder Solving for C by going B2B

Fintech entrepreneurs that set out to tackle major consumer problems nearly always do so with the finest of intentions: they want to benefit people. However,…
Hard Cash and Soft Skills How Successfully Manage an Acquisition

Hard Cash and Soft Skills How Successfully Manage an Acquisition

Acquisitions are made for a variety of reasons by businesses. It is sometimes about filling a gap in a product roadmap, increasing market share, or…
Three Experiments for Early-Stage Founders Seeking Product-Market fit

Three Experiments for Early-Stage Founders Seeking Product-Market fit

We have a pre-seed and seed-stage investment fund, a venture studio, and an Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) program at Human Ventures. We have learned a…
European, North American Edtech Startups See Funding Triple in 2021

European, North American Edtech Startups See Funding Triple in 2021

The edtech ecosystem may have compared to a shallow well as late as 2019. There were just a few growing enterprises generating interest, and funding…
Fintech Roundup Better.Com Workers leaving in ‘Droves’ in Wake of CEO Vishal Garg’s Return

Fintech Roundup Better.Com Workers leaving in ‘Droves’ in Wake of CEO Vishal Garg’s Return

Hello and welcome to my new weekly fintech column. It is an exciting time to be a journalist covering financial technology. Aside from the fact…
Anarchist Economics – a Practice of Economic Activity

Anarchist Economics – a Practice of Economic Activity

Anarchy, derived from a Greek phrase that means “having no ruler,” is a belief system that rejects governmental authority in favor of self-government or community…
Participatory Economics – an Economic System

Participatory Economics – an Economic System

Participatory Economics is a proposed alternative to our current economic system for a new economy based on democracy, justice, and ecological sustainability. It is a…
Public Bad – in Economics

Public Bad – in Economics

A public bad has negative impacts (externalities) on people and communities, resulting in severe social welfare loss. In economics, a public bad is the symmetrical…
Interview Techniques for Interviewer

Interview Techniques for Interviewer

Remember that during the interview process, candidates are deciding whether or not they want to work for you, just as you are deciding whether or…
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