Business Ideas
Why the Consumer and Finance Industries Are Ripe for Disruption
As big and important as these sectors are to our daily lives, innovation is seriously lagging.
Ryan Caldbeck is the founder of San Francisco-based CircleUp, which provides an online investing marketplace that supports direct equity investments from individual investors into privately held consumer and retail companies. Previously he worked for TSG Consumer Partners and Encore Consumer Capital.
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