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9 Innovative Startups To Watch For in 2024

Tech.Co

While the market isn't short of spritely, innovative entrepreneurs, harsh economic headwinds combined with a pullback in investor spending have made it harder than ever for budding businesses to break through. Bobbie’s growth snowballed after caregivers sought new sources of baby formula during the nationwide shortage in 2022.

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Smart Audio – A Lucrative Platform… If You Figure Out How To Leverage It

InfoChachkie

America is smitten by smart audio / smart speakers (the terms are used interchangeably by industry analysts), making it the gift of the 2018 Holiday Season. It is expected that the majority of these 25 million smart speakers will be sold during the 2018 Holiday Season. The entire report is available HERE. What’s Next? –

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How the myth of the ‘girlboss’ harms emerging women in tech

TechCrunch LA

Glossier affirmed our inherent beauty, then reminded us that we can be even more beautiful if we buy their “Boy Brow” pomade, which sold one tube every 32 seconds by 2018. After all, Glossier’s founder and CEO Emily Weiss is very, very far from the first entrepreneur to profit off of our desire to look good. It’s not a compliment.

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Venture capitalists ‘like and subscribe’ to influencers

TechCrunch LA

The firm even launched an accelerator for YouTube personalities in late 2018. This year, companies are expected to spend a total of $8 billion on influencer marketing campaigns, a figure that should swell to $15 billion by 2022, per data collected by Mediakix , an influencer marketing agency. Bain Capital Ventures' Jamison Hill.

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10 Business Areas Where Data Is The Key To The Future

Startup Professionals Musings

These large opportunities are why IDC says that worldwide revenues for ‘big data’ and business analytics will grow from $166 billion in 2018 to more than $260 billion in 2022, at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 11.7%. Marty Zwilling.