These Two Factors Are Leading the UPS Store’s Rapid Expansion
The UPS Store holds steady at #4 on the Franchise 500 for the second straight year, by relying on two key intangibles.
Starbucks Is Changing Its Pricing. Here’s What to Know.
Starbucks is switching to a flat fee for syrup charges.
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Dunkin’ Brews Up Cross-Generational Buzz With This Odd Celebrity Pairing
The brand’s recent campaign featuring a Gen X actor and a Gen Z rapper is winning over customers of all ages, and helped land them at #6 on this year’s Franchise 500.
Fintech isn’t doomed, it just needs more time
Today on Equity, we’re taking a look at stocks around the world, key earnings and what’s happening with crypto.
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Uber is closing alcohol delivery service Drizly three years after acquistion
Uber is shutting down alcohol delivery service Drizly, three years after the cab-hailing company acquired it for $1.1 billion. Drizly ran independently all this time, and Uber eventually decided to close it, as first reported by Axios. At the time of the acquisition Uber planned to integrate Drizly into Uber Eats, but never came around […]
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OpenAI announces team to build ‘crowdsourced’ governance ideas into its models
OpenAI says it wants to implement ideas from the public about how to ensure its future AI models “align to the values of humanity.” To that end, the AI startup is forming a new Collective Alignment team of researchers and engineers to create a system for collecting and “encoding” public input on its models’ behaviors into […]
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Why most GTM slides suck — and how to fix them
The number of founders using their go-to-market slide to describe a marketing strategy is downright problematic.
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Xyte stirs up $30M to enable any hardware maker to build subscription products
The hardware industry is under pressure these days: slower spending cycles from consumers and businesses, market saturation — not to mention innovation largely coming in the form of software at the moment — are all contributing to an overall decline in sales. Now, a startup has raised some funding to expand its alternative to hardware […]
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What to Do When You Fail to Live Up to Your Own Expectations
My product launch was a failure. But here’s why that became a good thing.
Microsoft Office Pro 2019 and Windows 11 Pro are Bundled Together for Just $50 Right Now
Get the comprehensive bundle on sale for this week only.
Pinecone’s vector database gets a new serverless architecture
For a long time, vector databases were a bit of a niche product, but since they are uniquely suited to provide context and long-term memory to large language models, everybody in the database space is now seemingly trying to bolt vector search onto their existing products as fast as possible. Meanwhile, dedicated services like Pinecone, […]
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