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Using Spotify and Netflix payments to build your credit score? Grow Credit has a service for that.

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The service, which launched earlier this month, is one of the slew of new ideas coming from businesses that are angling to help build up credit scores for folks who can’t (or won’t) get a credit card, or who are rebuilding their credit. Grow Credit offers 0% APR financing for its service but has two tiers.

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As Quibi reportedly seeks another $1 billion, Fiction Riot fills the programming slate for its rival service

TechCrunch LA

Even as Quibi , the short form video platform from Jeffrey Katzenberg’s WndrCo , reportedly looks to raise another $1 billion , rival service Fiction Riot continues to steadily build out its pipeline of short form serials. The company is reportedly spending $5 million per hour of storytelling for some of its titles.

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7 Lessons For Mobile App Developers To Beat The Odds

Startup Professionals Musings

Here are some ways we both recommend to beat the odds and thrive in today’s app ecosystem: Sell a digital service through your app. The ideal business model is to establish a direct-to-consumer service that enables you to bill the customer directly. Offer premium services after user is hooked. Commoditize complementary products.

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Why Meg Whitman is Betting on Quibi as“The Da Vinci Code of Content”

Both Sides of the Table

Sometimes that’s venture capital generally (like last year’s conversation with Reid Hoffman ) and sometimes it’s in a space where I’ve invested (like mobility and city innovation with Bird’s Travis VanderZanden , one of our portfolio founders.) We would argue that our movies are world-class movies, just designed entirely for mobile.”

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7 Keys To A Winning Business As A Phone App Developer

Startup Professionals Musings

Here are some ways we both recommend to beat the odds and thrive in today’s app ecosystem: Sell a digital service through your app. The ideal business model is to establish a direct-to-consumer service that enables you to bill the customer directly. Offer premium services after user is hooked. Commoditize complementary products.

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Interview with Joe Bayen, Grow Credit

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For those not familiar with Grow Credit, talk about what your service does? Joe Bayen: Grow Credit is the first platform to allow consumers to establish their credit, for free, using their subscription payments for services such as Netflix, HBO, or whatnot. How long has the service been around?

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EAT Club Expands To LA

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Silicon Valley lunch delivery service EAT. Club is announcing this morning that it is expanding its service to Los Angeles. EAT Club helps companies with in-office lunch delivery, letting office managers pick which lunches, snacks, delivery timing, and more for in-office lunch service. READ MORE>>.

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