Linkage: More Core Themes, including Entrepreneurship Porn

Fintech, Lending & Crypto Stuff

• Irony alert: personal loan fintech firms rely very heavily on old school direct mail(cnbc.com)
• Personal loans are fastest growing lending category(pymnts.com)
• Deep dive on JP Morgan's plans for digital domination in consumer banking(cbinsights.com)
• Use cases for private blockchains(bitcoinmagazine.com)
• Credit Karma entering mortgage business(techcrunch.com)
• Zillow also entering mortgage business(techcrunch.com)
• Zillow takes early stock hits on mortgage business news(cnbc.com)
• Facebook's blockchain boss David Marcus is leaving Coinbase board(businessinsider.com)
• Ripple giving away currency to drive adoption(nytimes.com)
• Recent mortgage industry partnership deals(housingwire.com)
• U.S. housing will get even less affordable(bloomberg.com)
• Top 25 tech companies to watch in 2018(wsj.com)
• Everything Amazon is doing in financial services(cbinsights.com)
• Diagram of Goldman Sachs vision for Marcus(lendacademy.com)
• Why is Green Sky a better fintech?(fool.com)
• Susquehanna is way ahead of Wall Street on bitcoin(nytimes.com)
• Small time mortgage brokers getting filthy rich off government loans to the poor(bloomberg.com)

Marketing, Media & Entrepreneurial Stuff

• Entrepreneurship Porn Is Sending The Wrong Message To Founders(businessinsider.com)
• 53% of millennials expect to become millionaires(amtd.com)
• Why VCs don't like Lifestyle Businesses(avc.com)
• Facebook's new Brand Collabs manager helps brands find influencers, hurts small influencer talent agencies(businessinsider.com)
• What every publisher should know about liability insurance(copylaw.com)
• What financial services can learn from consumer direct companies(crowdfundinsider.com)
• Mattresses are like mortgages. Big firms buy startups for their customer acquisition and technology expertise.(forbes.com)
• Top 15 D2C startups by funding(news.crunchbase.com)
• Marcus, Casper, Oscar: Why startups are obsessed with human names(bloomberg.com)
• Content Marketing Power Law(cbinsights.com)