Recorded about a month ago by VC firm Matrix Partners, Glenbrook's Scott Loftesness and Dana Stalder of Matrix Partners discuss the evolution of mobile payments, the business model failure of Softcard, and other topics including: The 8+ year journey to ApplePay...
These are some personal observations on Apple Pay, after an exciting week of reading announcements from Apple and reactions from bloggers. (If you want a Glenbrook business view on the announcement, read Wednesday's post by my partner George Peabody.) For several...
The Apple Pay announcement finally came yesterday and the company's orchestration of much of the complex and fractious card payments ecosystem demonstrates Apple's insight into how the current payments ecosystem works and how it must be aligned in order to meet its...
I can't help it - I'm a consultant; I love putting things into categories and into context. I always find pictures and "maps" help when things get confusing. So here's my latest attempt at making sense of what's going on with mobile payments and cards. What...
When I was a baby consultant some twenty years ago, I remember standing in Kepler's Bookstore in Menlo Park (remember book stores?) thumbing through a paperback book called "The Rules of Marketing". Rule #7 that said all successful markets will subdivide into...
What do eBay, Google, and Facebook all have in common? Sure, they all dominate their respective categories. And, yes, they all are hugely ambitious. Plus they all have demonstrated the ability to invent new markets. The other shared trait, in case you hadn't...
Who knows what in payments? Sounds like a question begging for a snappy one-liner comeback. But this is a question we hear more and more from our clients. Particularly those that see the increasingly close relationship between payments and marketing -- and want to...
