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

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Ample Hills Creamery — named for a line in a Walt Whitman poem — is an ice cream shop and “community gathering place.” MiniLuxe is a nail and beauty lifestyle lounge with locations in Dallas, Rhode Island, Los Angeles, and Boston. Select VC Investors: Breakaway Innovation Group. Oh My Cream!

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First And Ten: Disrupting The School Sports Uniform Process With Customization

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Even school sports uniforms have been dragged into the digital age, courtesy of a Rhode Island DTC company called SquadLocker. The company took an innovative business model and serious sales momentum into the start of the year, pivoted for the pandemic and took $20 million in funding off the table.

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121 Of The Biggest, Costliest Startup Failures Of All Time

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Torris said Boo.com also spent too much on advertising and promotions and failed to keep pushing forward on technology innovations. via MDDI Online. Select VC Investors: Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation. via eCommerce Times. Company: DeNovis, Inc. Total disclosed funding: $97.8M. ” via Boston Globe.

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