Empowerment Loops, Agglomerators vs. Specialists, The Fintech 2020s, Subscription Pricing, Negative Cash Conversion Cycles
Empowerment Loops, Agglomerators vs. Specialists, The Fintech 2020s, Subscription Pricing, Negative Cash Conversion Cycles
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The driving insight behind Nike, TikTok, and Figma.
IT buyers at large companies are starting to dedicate additional attention and resources to improve the performance of their deskless workforce and, perhaps more importantly, drive higher employee satisfaction to combat the high turnover rates seen in the category (even among high-skilled, high-wage workers).
No platform has been built for this use-case, a school as an approximation of the "Dream Team," the USA Olympic basketball squad that boasted Jordan, Bird, Ewing, Barkley, and Magic Johnson, among others.
Direct from field to plate: the 12 best online shops
Online food shopping has soared in popularity during lockdown — we are buying twice the amount of food online than we were a year ago. However, the real winners haven’t been the supermarkets, with
However, the real winners haven’t been the supermarkets, with many struggling to cope with the surge in demand, but independent suppliers, such as butchers, greengrocers and spice merchants, many of which would normally cater to top-end restaurants.
“I think people like the feeling they are getting something special,” says Chris Bartholdi at Harvey & Brockless, whose customers in normal times include Claridge’s and the Dorchester.
The great battle of the venture capital industry.
And the largest bucket of specialists invest across sectors, but focus on a stage, such as Precursor Ventures in pre-seed, First Round in seed, Benchmark and Kleiner Perkins at the Series A/B, and Meritech and IVP in growth.
Thank you to Alex Taussig, Kanyi Maqubela, Laura Thompson, Rebecca Kaden, Semil Shah, Tripp Jones, and Will Quist for your thoughtful feedback on drafts of this essay.
As alluded to in the prediction pertaining autonomous finance we are still in the earlier innings of Digital Wallets, however they are starting to serve as the gateway to the broader financial system ranging from everything including payments, to asset management, insurance, banking, PFM tools, lending, and tax reporting.
You’re beginning to see green shoots of traction in areas that are manually intensive, operationally inefficient, and require redundant databases held amongst disparate parties such as syndicated loans (where faxing is still part of settlement process), FX, ABS, private placements, and securitization.
Craigslist is raking in $1 billion a year, according to one researcher's estimates
Craigslist has seen threats to its core business in recent years, including the launch of Facebook Marketplace.
Craigslist could be raking in $1 billion a year, according to one researcher's estimates, signaling strong growth for the online classifieds company despite new challenges from tech giants.
Craigslist has seen threats to its core business in recent years, with the launch of Facebook Marketplace and in the wake of a congressional sex trafficking law.
How Wander Beauty fosters a deeply engaged customer community – Glossy
In the latest edition of Glossy+ Talks, an exclusive series for Glossy+ members, Divya Gugnani, Wander Beauty co-founder and CEO, discusses how customer conversations offer troves of data, why transparency and honesty with customers are always required, and how Wander Beauty is discussing today's racial inequality conversation internally and externally.
In the latest edition of Glossy+ Talks, an exclusive series for Glossy+ members, Divya Gugnani, Wander Beauty co-founder and CEO, discusses how customer conversations offer mountains of data, why transparency and honesty with customers are always required, and how Wander Beauty is discussing today’s racial inequality conversation internally and externally.
– Wander Beauty has implemented diversity training within its company, and after Gugani took the course, she sent an email to the team to show the certificate of completion.
How Startups Make Money With Subscription Pricing
It’s about fixing leaky pipes, not replacing exploding toilets
Profit under a basic subscription model becomes a guessing game of hoping the customer doesn’t consume more resources than they’re paying for.
By starting with a reshaping of the service that only includes the highest value parts of my 100% case at the lowest cost, I’m creating a new market segment.
The future of fashion and apparel
Strap: The industry is bound to see a lot of action over the next few months as it tries to re-invent itself. A look at the five key trends.
Globally estimated to be upwards of $2.5 trillion (nearly the size of the Indian economy), the industry is expected to decline by 20% this year due to the impact of Coronavirus.
For instance, leading designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee had turned to Instagram to launch his collections, break through the clutter, and directly engage with the end consumer.
It looks like we’re stuck with video chat. Is that such a bad thing?
Skeptics at the time warned that phones upended the idea of social trust, since you couldn’t see who you were talking to, but Bell Labs quickly cooked up an attempt at a solution in the 1920s by accompanying a telephone call with a televised image.
Andrew Bosworth, Facebook’s head of augmented and virtual reality, told me the company designed this feature to “keep it feeling like it’s alive as opposed to this fixed image that your brain kind of starts blurring out, which is what happens with so many video calling setups.”
‘You can’t just export the strategy’: How Muji’s US expansion faltered | Modern Retail
Japanese retailer Muji announced that the U.S. arm of its business will file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Muji currently has 18 stores in the United States, and is reportedly mulling scaling back that…
Muji’s store placements, said Neil Saunders, managing director of GlobalData Retail, “are typically very expensive real estate.” The strategy the company seemed to follow, in terms of its physical footprint, was “big cities in prime locations.”
It’s not enough to be a niche brand relying on diehard fans to order online — especially if the company is still expected to pay the expensive rents of its closed down stores.
How GymShark Fuels Growth With Negative Cash
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