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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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Bringing In Future Residents With Pop-Up Hotels

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These are all brand new units,” Fudin said. Our brand is brand new. Its new hotel in Baltimore, for example, includes a rooftop pool area. Smith (predecessor to JBG SMITH Properties), Working Lab Capital, Mitchell Schear and others. Everything is fresh.”.

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

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Dockless systems require less hardware for securing and managing inventory, translating into lower capital costs, expanded geographical reach, and lower costs for consumers. Uber partnered with JUMP (formerly Social Bicycles) for urban bike-share, while Lyft partnered with the city of Baltimore’s Bike Share program.

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

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Select Investors : StartLab Galway, Enterprise Ireland, Notion Capital. With a class-based and mobile first philosophy, Glofox is another company capitalizing on increased consumer interest in boutique fitness by combining a cloud-based business management platform with a white label mobile app. Headquarters: Baltimore, Maryland.

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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. The dealmaking had been as much as $246 billion last year and could be a fraction of that this year, according to reports.

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