What Investors Want From DTC Brands

What Investors Want From DTC Brands

There’s a new standard for what sort of digitally-native start-ups can catch investors’ attention. Take Oddity Tech. When the company, which collects and uses consumer data to develop beauty brands like cosmetics seller Il Makiage and hair and skin care upstart Spoiled Child, went public in July, it became an immediate DTC success story, bagging … Read more

A Better Way To Think About Innovation Success

A Better Way To Think About Innovation Success

Working Together getty In the corporate world, a lot of people feel that they should be putting their best foot forward. Noone wants to admit failure. Such a culture is a problem for innovation. Leaders need to redefine what it means to put your best foot forward. In the best-selling book Originals, author Adam Grant … Read more

Businesses Will Help Us Tackle Our Climate Challenge

Businesses Will Help Us Tackle Our Climate Challenge

The private sector should be a natural ally when it comes to tackling our growing climate challenge. The business community is, after all, equipped for rapid innovation, scalability, and systemic change – skills that are necessary to successfully curb emissions and meet our climate goals. I have seen this unique opportunity for private sector leadership … Read more

VAST Data Unveils New AI-focused Data Platform

VAST Data Unveils New AI-focused Data Platform

Wednesday, 2 August 2023, 2:09 pmPress Release: VAST Data VAST Data, the data platform company for the AI era, today unveiled the full vision for the company by introducing a transformative data computing platform designed to be the foundation of AI-assisted discovery. The VAST Data Platform is VAST’s global data infrastructure offering, unifying storage, database … Read more

4 Ways To Create More Creative Teams

4 Ways To Create More Creative Teams

Collaboration producing an idea getty While technology skills—and writing good AI prompts—may seem like all-important competencies for career success and sustainability today, creativity may be even more important in our fast-changing business environment. This is true not only for your company’s design team and communications department. As this article in Harvard Business Review puts it, … Read more