We’ve all been there: you run out of the car for a second, accidentally leaving your coffee in the cup-holder. When you return, your coffee is lukewarm, and your spirits are crushed (coffee is one of the foundations of society, ask anybody). Or even worse, it’s a sweaty summer day, and the only thing getting you through it is your frozen water bottle. Too bad that a twenty minute drive to the beach leaves that frozen water bottle dripping with condensation, and not even cold. These problems are not just your own, but Sarah Kauss’s as well. Kauss, the founder…
Author: Juliane DeGiovine
Imagine walking into your favorite store (from Macy’s to Target), and getting rewarded just for walking inside. It sounds like one of those despised too-good-to-be-true scenarios, right? Well, over 7.5 million Shopkick users have done just that. With over 150 brands and 15 retail partners under its ever-growing belt, Shopkick rewards consumers with “kicks” for walking into stores, scanning items, and making purchases with their synced credit/debit card. A kick, is kind of like a rewards point. You redeem kicks for gift cards and specialty items, “from a Starbucks gift card (1,250 kicks), to an iPad, (125,000 kicks)” says Forbes.com.…
Consider this: it’s raining on a Saturday “night” at three a.m., and you’re alone (and possibly tired/wasted/lost/cold etc. You could try to catch a cab (‘try’ being the operative word here), but the odds of that happening are slim at best. So you brave the rain and drudge on home, right? Wrong! Because with Uber, the most valuable startup that has sparked a transportation revolution, car-less civilians can be set up with a luxury vehicle in (literally) a matter of minutes—all from an app. To its humble beginnings as any other standard Silicon Valley startup, Uber (originally based in San…
It’s hard for any novice, urbanite independent to get into the swing of cooking easy, inexpensive (let alone healthy) meals for themselves. From overcrowded city supermarkets, to getting home way past the typical 5 p.m. dinnertime, most millennials (and even a few super-busy, never-really-learned-how-to-cook older folk) just settle for Chinese takeout, right? But what if there were a service that sent you fresh, easy, pre-portioned (and, yes, healthy too) meals for $9.99 per meal, per person (you can choose from either two, four, or six person meals)? Then you’d probably say ‘sign me up,’ right? Well, thanks to Blue Apron—a…
Do you know Vince? Ever since its Los Angeles-based establishment in 2002, the Vince Camuto label—owned by the Camuto Group, who also holds Tory Burch and BCBG under its expansive belt—has experienced nothing but growth. Here, we delve into how Vince transformed into the literally billion-dollar brand it is today. Set in mind as a collection of everyday, fashionable essentials for the modern woman, Vince’s exponential growth is (unsurprisingly) largely due to the brand’s merchandise. “The fundamental premise was to create a collection of iconic essentials that women would want to wear everyday — and I have to say, everyday…
