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Blazing A Trail Of eCommerce Innovation With Cargo Bikes

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For example, Powell had to make the bikes electric, as people are riding up hills in areas like San Francisco. The company has been active on social media. As the company grows in 2020, it is focusing on bigger media, magazine publications and online reviews.

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The Truth-In-Advertising Push

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There’s been a slow, steady drumbeat toward the movement for years, but ModCloth , the San Francisco-based vintage women’s clothing eTailer, prominently brought the issue back into the spotlight in 2014 when it signed a pledge that it would no longer make any post-production changes to any of its models or images.

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Why TOMS Shoes Is Putting A Toe In Brick-And-Mortar

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That sense of purpose, paired with a savvy presence on social media, brought the business a large and devoted following — and has seen the firm expand from shoes to other environmentally sound and charitably oriented accessories like bags, hats and sunglasses. Social Entrepreneurship Done Right.

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Autopsy Report: 9 Startup Failure Stories And What We Can Learn From Them

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Four days before John Carreyrou’s fateful Wall Street Journal report, The New York Times Style Magazine listed Holmes as one of “ Five Visionary Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Changing the World.”. Sprig launched in San Francisco with $1.2M The problem, of course, is that Holmes’ technology was a sham. The rise and fall of Klout.

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11 Lessons From Startup Chapter 11s

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The marketplace blended crowdsourcing and social media to create hype around new inventions; help inventors find partners, funding, and manufacturing resources; and sell their gadgets to major nationwide retailers such as Home Depot and Target. Magazine, and the company picked up $40M in VC capital from Index Ventures.

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We Analyzed 9 Of The Biggest Direct-to-Consumer Success Stories To Figure Out The Secrets to Their Growth — Here’s What We Learned

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There are founders out there who can’t get magazines to pick up their PR stories. According to Parikh, that means that if you’re in New York City or San Francisco or LA, “you can get Casper delivered to you faster than you can get a slice of pizza delivered to you.”. followers on Instagram.

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When Corporate Innovation Goes Bad — The 116 Biggest Product Failures Of All Time

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Originally slated as the 64-bit follow-up to the 32-bit Atari Panther (Atari’s competitor against the SNES and Sega Genesis), the Jaguar came out in 93 in New York City and San Francisco, then rolled out to the rest of the world in 1994. Cue Cat Barcode Scanner, Digital Convergence Corporation (1999). Wave, Google (2009).