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APRIL 24, 2018

Research BRIEFING: Surviving the Retail Apocalypse. How are brick-and-mortar retailers surviving and adapting in the world of digital commerce? The retail apocalypse has claimed many victims , with almost 7,000 stores closing in the US in 2017. And that’s just since February. However, this isn’t the whole story.

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APRIL 18, 2016

And Messenger and Marcus’ big bet is that its chatbots will provide a mechanism for brands to strike up those conversations with their community faster, cheaper and as well – if not better – than a live person can do now. For more on Turing you can read the book “Enigma” or go watch “The Imitation Game.”).

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MARCH 14, 2016

Evans, with his long-time colleague Dick Schmalensee, spent last year putting a lot of what we know in a new Harvard Business Review Press book, “ Matchmakers: The New Economics of Multisided Platforms ,” that’s going to be rolling off the presses in a few weeks. Getting critical mass is by far the biggest of those challenges.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2017

have a retail crisis — or a small business crisis? Which is why “fixing” retail must include giving SMB merchants the tools they need to compete in the very dynamic environment that now defines Retail U.S.A. So, what does this all have to do with retail? Here’s a question: Does the U.S. Here’s an answer. We have both.

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DECEMBER 7, 2016

Petryk, who said he was bullied ruthlessly as a kid from the third grade to high school, views his chain of Boston-based ice cream stores as safe havens that he wants to share with his community. “I I got beat up and knocked down, my books thrown away or flushed down the toilet a few times.”. That’s what J.P.

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APRIL 4, 2016

It’s only a matter of time, I conjecture, that on the ride from the airport to home or from the office to home, similar prompts might be made for an UberEats delivery or booking a reservation at a nearby restaurant. Uber has several pieces of information that will make those prompts, well, contextual. It’s not hard to see why.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

While they drum up interest in the company, known as “book building,” underwriters also work to price the IPO, or determine how the stock should be priced when it first hits the market. By 2017, there were just two — due in part, to automating aspects of the trading pipeline and an increased focus on technology-driven retail banking.

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CB Insights

JUNE 14, 2018

These companies are advancing a variety of construction methods to build ambitious development projects that reimagine everything from the wood used in homes to the ways we think about private vs. communal space. Blokable was founded by Aaron Holm, who formerly spearheaded physical retail efforts at Amazon. Table of contents.

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CB Insights

MARCH 26, 2019

GET THE 54-PAGE RETAIL TRENDS REPORT. Not all in-store retailers have fallen out of favor with millennials the way department stores have. 70% of millennials say that they shop at off-price retailers like TJ Maxx and Marshalls. Between 2006 and 2015, off-price retail sales went from $18B to $35B — a jump of 94%.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Steering the ship — handling all of the engineering, manufacturing, marketing, and retailing, even when you’re taking 90 percent of the subsequent profits — was ultimately too expensive of a proposition, especially in comparison to other, less-handholding-oriented start-ups. via Beta Boston. ” via Boston Globe. via Forbes.

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CB Insights

JULY 19, 2017

Retail/Consumer Goods. From their humble, skunkworks-style origins in Palo Alto to their current offices in Sunnyvale, Cupertino, Seattle, and Boston, they’ve scaled up to attack new projects but keep the same focus on experimentation and innovation that helped them build the first Kindle. Retail/Consumer Goods. Technology.

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OCTOBER 22, 2018

The beloved mall kiosk, or the more formally named retail merchandising unit ( RMU ), had its humble beginnings in Boston. In addition to helping entrepreneurs, the retail concept also helped malls bring in different sorts of merchants. “The industry has not kept pace with modern retail.

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OCTOBER 31, 2017

Fresco’s head of community marketing, Johnathan Hamiter, began sending employees private Slack messages saying funding seemed “pretty bleak” and encouraging them to look for other jobs. Imzy was created by former Reddit employees Dan McComas and Jessica Moreno as a safer, friendlier version of the popular community site. Around 4 p.m.,

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