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Tracksmith: Taking DTC Running From Heartbreak Hill To The Global Market

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Boston is home to the world’s “statement race” — the Boston Marathon. There was a time when you trained there if you considered yourself a serious runner, although Kenya has taken that spot. you’d be hard-pressed to find a Chowdahead who doesn’t think Boston is the running capital of the world.

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23 VC-Backed Brick & Mortar Startups Changing The Face Of Main Street

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Select VC Investors: Khosla Ventures, Social Capital. Select VC Investors: Cue Ball Capital, Valley Oak Investments. MiniLuxe is a nail and beauty lifestyle lounge with locations in Dallas, Rhode Island, Los Angeles, and Boston. Select VC Investors: Otium Capital. Select VC Investors: Venture Capital.

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Sizzle Or Fizzle: Uber, Bitcoin, Botnets, SWIFT – And The Wells Wallets

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The weather in Boston – and it’s about darn time. The hope is that the brand/experience convo will lure in customers and keep them buying. Their retail experience needs a bit of reinventing , and she did that for the iconic brand when she joined them. You want to know what really sizzled this week?

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18 Corporate Innovation Labs In Healthcare

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Innovation centers across the globe in Boston, London, California, and Shanghai serve as regional hubs that can connect with local entrepreneurs, scientists, and technologies. One key focus is training in human-centered design methodologies called i6. Boston Children’s Hospital — Innovation and Digital Health Accelerator (IDHA).

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Killing The I-Bank: The Disruption Of Investment Banking

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In the US, legislation emerged to forbid investment banks from prop trading, or trading with their own capital, and forcing them to keep more capital on hand. However, the model doesn’t currently allow companies to issue new shares, meaning that DPOs do not raise any capital for the company. STAYING PRIVATE.

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Why We Invested: VCs Sound Off On 7 Recent Early-Stage Startup Investments

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Select Investors: Data Collective, Intel Capital, Microsoft Ventures, Tencent Holdings. “At DCVC, we feel that Element AI is creating an endlessly renewable ‘natural resource’ for Canada by concentrating, training and professionalizing elite AI talent throughout Canada.” Bilal Zuberi, Lux Capital.

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That Inexplicable In-N-Out Burger, And Marketing Stunt #Fails

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Thanks to her badminton training, her reaction time was elite enough to enable her to catch two of the three burgers before they fell to the ground. And when Boston area consumers ran into the boxes, their first thought wasn’t “viral marketing stunt” – it was “bomb.” But they didn’t. They promptly called in law enforcement.

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