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The Great Retail Reinvention: How the Internet Is Reshaping the Way We Buy Clothing

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In 2017 alone, we’ve seen widespread store closures or bankruptcies from apparel retailers, including: True Religion. The old brands and distribution channels are dead or dying. It’s a $1T+ global industry undergoing tectonic shifts. Ascena (Ann Taylor, Loft, Dress Barn, Lane Bryant, Justice, etc.).

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

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Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. In 2017, the company reported sales of over $500 million. Benchmark is an investor in Rover through a merger with DogVacay in 2017).

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Looking for your summer internship? Look no further.

Austin Startup

Thrillbox Thrillbox is an immersive media analytics platform that provides distribution tools for content generators, advertising agencies, vendors, and networks. It’s getting warmer here in Austin and that can only mean one thing–summer is right around the corner, and with summer comes summer internships.

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Important Lessons Your Startup Or Small Business Can Learn From The World’s Best Brands

crowdSPRING Blog

The 2017 Brandz Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands report offers important branding lessons for startups and small business. Before we get to the lessons from the 2017 report, we want to be sure that there’s no confusion about the term “brand.” Plan For The Future While Focusing On Today.

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Things I’m Thinking About As We Approach 2017

Rob Go

I started out writing about a couple things I’ve been observing that I think will end up coming to greater fruition in 2017. Next thing you know, I had a 2017 prediction post So, here are three fairly unrelated things I’m thinking about as we approach 2017. I think 2017 will be that year. New New Media.

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SXSW Startups: Tankee

Austin Startup

From Minecraft adventures to ROBLOX music videos, Tankee’s team of real live humans review, create, and curate the best gaming content in a family-friendly, worry-free environment. We will soon add new languages and locations as we expand distribution. We started working on the idea and investigating the market in mid 2017.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

The carefully curated pictures depicted on social media were not anywhere close to what MY real life looked like. Wanting to continue to be super active and independent long into our senior years my sisters and I put our heads together to design, manufacture and distribute adaptive aids for the aging, disabled and special needs community.