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The Coffee Shop Office: A Money Drain Or Money Magnet?

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The key was recognizing the trend early and finding ways to capitalize on it, incorporating a workspace culture while also encouraging the community to continue using the café as a social gathering space. Suarez said it’s all about balance and branding.

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The Global Bike-Share Boom: Dockless Models Look To Solve Urban Commutes & Transit Access

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These bike-sharing systems improved upon the unmanageable systems of the late 20th century due to docking stations and software for tracking and managing bicycle fleets. Dockless systems require less hardware for securing and managing inventory, translating into lower capital costs, expanded geographical reach, and lower costs for consumers.

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Hit The Ground Running: 15 Early-Stage Fitness Tech Startups To Watch

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Zenrez provides fitness studio-focused yield management and pricing software solutions, particularly for complex payment models for boutique fitness studios. Select Investors : StartLab Galway, Enterprise Ireland, Notion Capital. Select Investors : 500 Accelerator, 500 Startups, BDC Venture Capital. Disclosed Funding: $9.1M.

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12 Industries That Will Thrive Thanks To Millennials

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To attract millennial clients, some old-school gyms are adapting their models to capitalize on the increasing popularity of the boutique studios. US health clubs have already rushed to capitalize on millennials’ devotion to self-improvement, with the volume of US health clubs increasing by 20% between 2011 and 2015.

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Retail Reinvention: Why Retail Doesn’t Need Salespeople

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Even if there were a trustworthy way to send money over the internet — which there isn’t — the network is no substitute to the essential ingredient of capitalism — salespeople.”. Take retail salespeople — Stoll’s self-proclaimed cornerstones of capitalism. Stores will become obsolete. Do our computer pundits all lack common sense?”

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Retail Fizzles, Alipay Sizzles — And Burger Wars Reignite On Mobile

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Fizzle: Chinese cross-border deals: With new regulations in place limiting cross-border capital flow, the dry-up is already here for Chinese firms buying companies outside the mainland, especially in the United States. Kohl’s managed to beat on earnings — which the market liked — but whiffed on sales, which investors didn’t.

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