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Jessica Alba’s Honest Company Faces A Down Round

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Honest Company’s last fundraising in 2015 was for $100 million — and at $45.75 The big price tag on Honest Company, however, is as much a limitation as it is an honor. The big price tag on Honest Company, however, is as much a limitation as it is an honor. That places its total valuation at $1.7

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Canoo Aims To Reinvent Electric Vehicles And Subscriptions

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That group would certainly include Alex Marcinkowski , chief strategy officer at Canoo , the electric vehicle company that has made headlines with its recent $600 million fundraise. The company will also provide maintenance and repair, as another way of reducing electric vehicles’ high price tags.

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Frightful Five: Apple Speaker Delayed While Alexa, Google Assistant Charge Ahead

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Apple’s big selling point for the HomePod was its superior auditory quality, which was supposed to justify the $349 price tag. Facebook previously charged a 5 percent transaction fee for all nonprofit fundraisers. Individual fundraisers will still be subject to a payment processing fees of 6.9 million through the site.

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Tap To Give To Charity – Yes, It’s A Thyng

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PYMNTS CEO Karen Webster has volunteered at a few charity fundraisers in her day, and the call to action at the end of the night is still, in 2017, to reach for the checkbook and write out the donation amount on paper. Doesn’t matter how nice of a ballpoint pen you write it with … that’s some serious payments friction.

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Can TAGWALK Redefine Fashion Search?

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The early days were slow going, and so, to fundraise she didn’t seek out investors — she sought out tenants through Airbnb to rent her apartment while she built her product. Investors might have been nice, Van Houtte noted, but at first she really couldn’t find them. But she persisted, and that product today is called TAGWALK.

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Framing The FinTech Build Vs. Buy Debate

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Here’s the drill: Young firm gets off the ground, with fundraising or bootstrapping in hand. This type of analysis should take place in a context where the fines are becoming more frequent, more varied and with higher price tags. Young firm gets going, with staffers wearing various hats. And there’s the rub.

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Kohl’s Sizzles, ICOs Fizzle And Juicero’s Cold-Pressed Sales Run Dry

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Scams abound in initial coin offerings, and China deems them illegal in terms of fundraising, with investigations starting into dozens of firms. The price tag, however didn’t scare off investors — who liked Founder and “hipster-vegan” Doug Evans’ pitch — and thought that selling “smart juice” had a future.

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