11 Effective Marketing Strategies and Tips for Black-Owned Businesses
11 Effective Marketing Strategies and Tips for Black-Owned Businesses
Welcome to Breaking the Blueprint — a new blog series that dives into the unique business challenges and opportunities of Black business owners and entrepreneurs. Learn how they’ve grown or scaled their businesses, explored entrepreneurial ventures within the…
Singapore-based D2C dental brand Zenyum raises $40M Series B from L Catterton, Sequoia India and other investors
Singapore-based D2C dental brand Zenyum raises $40M Series B from L Catterton, Sequoia India and other investors
Zenyum, a startup that wants to make cosmetic dentistry more affordable, announced today it has raised a $40 million Series B. This includes $25 million from L Catterton, a private equity firm focused on consumer brands. The round’s other participants were Se…
FOCUS-In U.S. creator economy boom, big tech battles for online talent – Reuters
FOCUS-In U.S. creator economy boom, big tech battles for online talent – Reuters
Katie Feeney, an 18-year-old from Olney, Maryland, was in her calculus class on Zoom in November when she learned that a week of posting skits and unboxing videos on Snapchat earned her $229,000. Her $1.4 million in total earnings over the past seven months w…
Packaging Companies Move Towards Monomaterial Pumps and Bottles for Better Recyclability
Packaging Companies Move Towards Monomaterial Pumps and Bottles for Better Recyclability
One of my regular ID gigs was in “structural package design,” i.e. bottles. I’ve worked on all kinds, and I think laypeople would be surprised to see how many different materials go into your average pump bottle. They’re typically primarily polypropylene, but…
Market Snapshot: Stock futures mostly lower ahead of jobless claims, GDP update
Market Snapshot: Stock futures mostly lower ahead of jobless claims, GDP update
Stock-index futures drift lower Thursday as investors await weekly data on jobless claims as well as an updated look at first-quarter gross domestic product and other economic data.
Experts Unpack 4 of TikTok's Viral Beauty and Wellness Trends of the Moment
Experts Unpack 4 of TikTok’s Viral Beauty and Wellness Trends of the Moment
A year and some change ago, I got on TikTok. It was no big deal, at first. Just a few weeks into the first spate of stay-at-home orders, I started by bookmarking a few videos of progressively more elaborate Rube Goldberg machines. I had absolutely no intentio…
Research goes to new depths in skin peptide study
Research goes to new depths in skin peptide study
Researchers have revealed for the first time that a peptide in a leading beauty product can penetrate the tough stratum corneum barrier of the skin.