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How Neighborhood Goods Is Breathing New Life Into The Department Store Model
How Neighborhood Goods Is Breathing New Life Into The Department Store Model
March 12, 2019  |  Retail

For physical retail, and department stores in particular, it’s both the best of times and worst of times. The headline topping the news this week...

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Strange Bedfellows? Trade Unions And Gig Marketplaces
Strange Bedfellows? Trade Unions And Gig Marketplaces
March 08, 2019  |  Matchmakers

In the U.K., says Labour Xchange Co-Founder Jonathan Key in the latest Matchmakers podcast, millions of people are underemployed. Matching ad hoc employees to work they...

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Why Retailers Are Crowdsourcing Delivery
Why Retailers Are Crowdsourcing Delivery
March 01, 2019  |  Delivery

Imagine getting paid to go home. (Really, take a moment and do so. Feels nice, right?) Now, imagine not only getting paid to go home,...

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With This Ring, I Thee Pay — Buy, And Authenticate
With This Ring, I Thee Pay — Buy, And Authenticate
January 16, 2019  |  Matchmakers

Human wrists deserve a break when it comes to payments, commerce and even authentication, right? To put it another way: Is there a better way...

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How Matchmakers Ignite: 2018 Edition
How Matchmakers Ignite: 2018 Edition
December 26, 2018  |  Matchmakers

Matchmaking businesses aren’t exactly  a new idea — though the breathless enthusiasm of the tech press might lead one to mistakenly believe that the concept...

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Is #donate The First Step To #buy?
Is #donate The First Step To #buy?
December 05, 2018  |  Matchmakers

By almost any measure, John Gossart, COO and Co-founder of fundraising resource Goodworld, has done more than his fair share of public service. He served two...

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Doctor On Demand CEO Talks Walmart Partnership And Telemedicine’s Expansion
Doctor On Demand CEO Talks Walmart Partnership And Telemedicine’s Expansion
October 31, 2018  |  Matchmakers

When last year’s flu vaccine turned out to be ineffective 80 percent of the time, it did not necessarily have to turn into a flu...

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Divvy Founders On Building A Millennial Bridge Between Renting And Homeownership
Divvy Founders On Building A Millennial Bridge Between Renting And Homeownership
October 17, 2018  |  Real Estate

For much of the early 2010s, there was an emerging piece of conventional wisdom that millennials were on the verge of radically breaking from the...

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How Picfair Plans To Shake Up Shutterstock (And Photo Marketplaces)
How Picfair Plans To Shake Up Shutterstock (And Photo Marketplaces)
October 03, 2018  |  Matchmakers

Before Benji Lanyado founded photography marketplace Picfair, he was a journalist covering the travel beat for a “publication whose name you would know” facing an ongoing problem....

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