When I was 12 years old I got my first job working at the corner drug store, stocking shelves and making deliveries. After a few months the owner trusted me enough to work the cash register and – believe it […]
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People are born curious. It\’s in our DNA. Actually, there is a curiosity gene. Researchers postulate that humans are driven to explore new things and pursue new experiences because it floods our brains with dopamine, the pleasure hormone. Curiosity is
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Let me say this right up front: The New York Times does a bang-up job on the sponsored content coming out of its T Brand Studio commercial arm. Eminently clickable and beautifully designed, the pieces feel so reported and legit
Most retailers have fully embraced the short season of offering home merchandise to kids heading back to college. However, it’s an educational process. If you think the back-to-school shopping season is just about pencils and notebooks, you clearly need a
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Micro-Risks The Lean Startup approach, based on the book by Eric Ries, is about starting small and testing until your ideas are fully baked. The book details many well-funded Silicon Valley failures, and while the examples are primarily tech-based, the
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With just a single year under its belt, Brandless, which prices all its roughly 300 products at $3, is reportedly valued at nearly $500 million, which is more than what Walmart paid for Bonobos. Some pundits have even touted Brandless
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The refrain in William Shakespeare’s Song of the Witches from Macbeth was originally written: “Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble.” It was a scary scene, and the title of this article portends an even scarier moment
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Avid fans know, at the end of this season’s Game of Thrones, we find House Lannister having killed or alienated all of its allies, just as the final battle for dominance of Westeros looms ahead. A smart strategy? It certainly
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This is a tale of two worlds: the old and the new. VF is exiting its final two old-world brands, Lee and Wrangler. They are saying adios to their diminishing old-world Boomer consumers to focus on its new- world brands
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With the disruption ecommerce has brought to retailers, businesses steering through choppy times have mostly taken isolated approaches to their channels. I’d argue that to drive and sustain future growth, it’s time to start thinking outside of the “brick or
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