CB Insights

APRIL 17, 2018

He received his MBA in 1993 from UT Austin before joining Credit Suisse First Boston as an Equity Research Analyst, where he focused on computer hardware and software. Jeff began his post-graduate career as a Management Consultant with The Boston Consulting Group. PROFILES OF THE TOP 20 VENTURE CAPITAL PARTNERS. BILL GURLEY.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2018

It’s a tall order for a Boston-based furniture company – but Wayfair has always thought big, even when it was very, very small. So small, in fact, that when it first started in 2002, the entire operation fit easily into the spare bedroom of Co-founder Steve Conine’s Boston home. As of today, that one-room idea has grown to $6.6

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CB Insights

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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Tomorrow's Transactions

JANUARY 19, 2017

Naturally, as is the case for most forward-looking of retailers, they do not take cash, so I paid with one of the many cards about my person. Perry Kramer, vice president and practice lead at consultant Boston Retail Partners, contends that as many as four-fifths of (US, I presume) retailers are already “largely cashless”.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

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.”. I was always a weirdo,” said Petryk. “I

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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

JUNE 14, 2018

Asimov predicted the exploding population would cause US cities like Boston and New York to converge along the coast into combined super-urban bodies, while suburban communities would have to expand downwards, building subterranean homes. Housing supply is dire nationally, with the US reportedly staring down a housing shortage of 7.3M

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CB Insights

JULY 23, 2020

Companies will have to look to guidelines from local and national authorities for each office location. After raising $9M in Series A funding in May 2020, the company stated it expected a 500% increase in sales bookings quarter-over-quarter (QoQ). Finally, several of these solutions are relatively low in cost. Source: VergeSense.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Indeed, co-founder Alejandro Resnik, the CEO, told the WSJ in 2015 that it was looking to raise a “monster round” of $300 million at a $2 billion valuation to fuel its national expansion. via Beta Boston. Meanwhile, it floated other plans, like starting a print catalogue and delivering for local retailers. via TechCrunch.

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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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CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2017

We are confident that to truly have the long-term impact we want to make, we need to focus on finding an acquirer with an existing national fresh food supply chain who can carry forward the Juicero mission. We have enjoyed helping you find great restaurants, access tough-to-book reservations and discover local chef events.”

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