According to Balance Small Business, the sharing economy is one of the fastest growing business trends ever in history, with investors putting inmore than $23 billion in venture capital funding since 2010 into share-based model startups.
Since most of these businesses are private, it’s impossible to know the [Read More]
Historically, tech that caters to women’s health issues hasn’t received much, if any, funding—but the tide is turning. According to a study from Frost & Sullivan, it’s estimated that by 2025, Femtech will be a $50 billion industry.
The term ‘Femtech’ was first coined in 2016 by Ida [Read More]
Whether it’d be from a device, at home, in a restaurant, or on top of a taxi, with 81% of the U.S. population currently living in an urban area, people are increasingly more exposed to a multitude of screens throughout their day. So it’s crucial that what goes [Read More]
Back in the pre-Internet days when we had a blowup with a friend or a breakup with an ex, we simply didn’t hang out with them anymore. Nowadays we unfollow, mute, unfriend, and block people we no longer want to hear from. But more and more studies [Read More]
Federal law states that all advertising—that means radio, print, billboard, TV, or anywhere else—must be truthful, not misleading, It also states that when possible, ads should be backed by scientific evidence, yet a 2018 study called the ‘Deceptive Marketing of Hope,’ conducted by the nonprofit, Truth in [Read More]
A 2018 study estimated that 500 million straws are used every day in the US alone, equating to 1.6 straws per person a day. That’s 8.3 billion plastic straws in thealmost 250,000 metric tons of plastic in the world’s oceans—a number that’s set to double by 2025. This [Read More]
Between 2017 and 2018, women started an average of 1,821 new businesses a day. For those new female entrepreneurs, they need a place to launch and an office to launch from. But as more companies are moving from traditional office-type cubicles, and with more careers built out [Read More]
Knowing your personality typecan help with career planning at every stage from what to major in to pivoting careers. Over 2 million people are administered the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator assessment—or MBTI—worldwide each year. MBTI was founded by mother/daughter team Katharine Cook Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers.
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Counterfeit goods make up around 2.5% of all global imports to the US—which is somewhere in the ballpark of half a trillion dollars. In 2017, US Customs seized more than 34,000 shipments of counterfeit goods—an 8% increase from 2016—and yet in the US, the resale business is [Read More]
The education space is chockfull of products for parents, students and educators, quickly becoming one of the fastest growing and most profitable industries. According to Forbes, in 2017, 813 different EdTech companies received funding while in 2018 EdTech investments hit a historical record of $9.5 billion.
These EdTech [Read More]
