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The Uber Of Fitness Trainers: Handstand

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Whether it’s yoga, boxing, pilates, bootcamp or whatever fitness program you’re into lately, you can book a trainer on-demand at a more reasonable price. Hakimianpour, spoke with PYMNTS about how Handstand has been able to disrupt the industry and balance strongly in the market, despite a few bumps in the beginning.

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SWIFT Warns India Of ‘Unprecedented’ Rise In Corporate Loan Defaults

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Adding pressure to this issue is the fact that bad corporate debts and nonperforming assets on banks’ books are on the rise. A new report commissioned by SWIFT , with research conducted by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), is urging corporate banks in India to take action. Rising Risks, Demand For Digitization: A Double Threat.

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Small Business Spotlight: Just Add Cooking

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Consumers can buy shoes, books, coffee pots, linens and dog toys online, so why are they still going to the grocery store for the same dozen eggs and gallon of milk they buy every week? Boston-based meal kit company Just Add Cooking aims to address both by sourcing its kits from farms and businesses in the New England region.

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The Big Bucks Behind Sleep (Or Lack Thereof)

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But somehow, we are a nation of chronically under-rested people. The mattress market alone is worth a whopping $15 billion. It feels a lot more like play than work,” Lisa Kelly-Croswell, the chief human resources officer at Boston Medical Center, noted of the program. Boston Med has offered Sleepio since 2016.

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Hertz And Avis Eye Uber Impact, With Rough Road Ahead

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In this case , “a bit” goes back as long ago as January 2016, when it came out that beginning in the third quarter of 2015, Uber began to displace rental cars, at that point only in Boston. Uber is the heavyweight ridesharing company here, with 55 percent of the market, and Lyft held 8 percent, said Certify.

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Wayfair’s Burgeoning Home Goods Ecosystem

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In fact, in its founding days back in 2002, Wayfair fit comfortably in the spare bedroom of Conine’s Boston-area home. billion in annual revenue, has a stock market valuation of $10 billion and an employee headcount that is expected to surpass 10,000 by the end of 2018. As of today, Wayfair brings in $6.6

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Drizly: The Amazon of Alcohol

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And Boston-based D rizly ’s news yesterday of its $15 million in Series B funding was a noteworthy milestone, for sure. . Our system standardizes the information properly, which when you think about the variety of ways small shops around the nation list and manage their inventory, is a huge challenge ,” Rellas said.