Peloton Husband Claps Back, Epic Provisions Story, Retail Disruption Factors, Chat with Atoms Cofounder, Tracee Ellis Ross Venture, Last Minute Shopping Rush
Peloton Husband Claps Back, Epic Provisions Story, Retail Disruption Factors, Chat with Atoms Cofounder, Tracee Ellis Ross Venture, Last Minute Shopping Rush
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Peloton Husband Gifts One to Girlfriend: Was Peloton Behind this?
At the Inc. Founders House in Austin, Epic Provisions founders Taylor Collins and Katie Forrest recounted the lessons from their many missteps growing the successful snack business.
It's surprising to hear that Taylor Collins and Katie Forrest, the married founders of Epic Provisions , a company that sells energy bars and snacks made from meat, were not always passionate carnivores.
4: Ignore all red flags During the early days of their company, Forrest continually experienced health problems, including stomach issues, knee trouble, and inflammation all over her body.
Shift Happens: 7 Factors That Defined A Decade Of Retail Disruption
When it comes to retail, most folks point to online shopping as the most disruptive force. I beg to differ. While related, what the internet (and related technologies and platforms) did was dissolve or reduce many aspects of scarcity that helped determine the winners and losers of prior decades.
Faced with a world of choice, a tsunami of information, easily educated, constantly connected, the fact is no customer has to settle anymore for average or simply good enough.
While new forces are certain to emerge in the years ahead, plenty of lessons can be learned by reflecting on what retail brands failed to pay adequate attention to, accept as the pressing new reality and, most critically, act upon in the recent past.
Ten Thousand Steps In The Wrong Direction: My Chat With the Co-Founder of Atoms
Last week, I sat down with Waqas Ali, the co-founder of Atoms, at their pop-up store in Soho. For the uninitiated, Atoms is a sneaker…
His first shoe company won a grant from Google to the tune of $10K but his excitement quickly dissipated after he realized he didn’t even have a bank account for the money to be transferred to Pakistan.
It’s the classic dilemma about how to scale the “unscalable” interactions but this idea of listening, receiving and starting genuine dialogue is a tactic with massive upside that both builds your tribe and your CLTV.
Entrepreneur, Hold The Ish: How Tracee Ellis Ross Created A Company For Hair Like Hers
After working on a brand pitch since 2008, Ross tapped into the $2.5 billion natural hair care market and launched a hair care line designed for people with curly, coily and tight-textured hair types.
Micaiah CarterOne of the first entrepreneurial “aha” moments that helped to kick-start Golden Globe-winning actress and Black-ish star Tracee Ellis Ross’ journey with her new hair care line was, appropriately, in a beauty supply store.
“The launch of products like Pattern is signaling to black and brown and multiracial women and girls that they (and their specific hair care needs) are truly being seen and finally celebrated,” says Cheryl Grace, a consumer engagement exec at Nielsen.
For American Homebuyers, Paris Has a Certain Je Ne Sais Quoi
U.S. buyers are flocking to France’s capital city and fueling its real-estate market.
At midnight in Paris on December 31, Lawrence and Christine Taylor will dine near the twinkling Eiffel Tower, with a view of the New Year’s fireworks over the River Seine.
Rather than retire to the hotel suite they rented for years, they will end the night in their own apartment by the Luxembourg Gardens, with the bells of the Saint-Sulpice church ringing in the New Year from outside their bedroom window.
Last-Minute Shoppers Rushed to Online Retailers
Holiday shoppers increasingly favored digital outlets over stores, preliminary retail data indicate, with the surge in online orders driving overall sales growth while also taxing package carriers in what was a shorter gift-buying season.
Holiday shoppers increasingly favored digital outlets over stores, preliminary retail data indicate, with the surge in online orders driving overall sales growth while also taxing package carriers in what was a shorter gift-buying season.
Total U.S. retail sales for Nov. 1 through Christmas Eve rose 3.4% from a year earlier, according to Mastercard SpendingPulse, which tracks both online and in-store spending with all forms of payment.
