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How Tolerance for Risk Can Really Affect Outcomes

by Scott Loftesness on March 22, 2009

in BillPoint, Ecommerce Payments, Innovation, PayPal, Scott Loftesness, eBay

Recently, I’ve been studying innovation in payments – trying to identify the factors that influence market success (rare) vs. market failures (much more common). Certainly, the story of PayPal (as the most successful payments innovation in a long time) is at the center of my analysis.
On his Redeye VC blog, First Round Capital’s Josh [...]

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eBay Analyst Day: PayPal World Domination

by Erin McCune on March 11, 2009

in ECommerce, Ecommerce Payments, PayPal, eBay

Earlier today, PayPal president Scott Thompson presented at the eBay Analyst day (the first done by the company since 2006) and I will do my best to summarize his key points here in this post.
The primary message I heard was that PayPal intends to dominate e-commerce transactions worldwide. In addition, I’m including the PayPal-specific comments [...]

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