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From Digitally Native Brand to Digitally Native Franchise: a New Model for Commerce and Entrepreneurial Empowerment
A play on the historic franchise model, but reinvented with digitally-native platforms to support solopreneurs
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The CQ: Welcome, Boombox — a new AI-powered approach to music collaboration
$7M in funding to build the G-Suite for musicians
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The CQ: Brand Power Score, our New, Quantitative Measurement for Brand Impact
Introducing new tools that make the intangible more tangible
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Are Consumers Really Freaking Out?
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The CQ: Social Commerce Without Social Networks?
The CQ: The Next Wave of Game-Changing Companies Will be Life-Changing Companies
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The CQ: The most overlooked P&L line item
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The CQ: 10 Years of Forerunner 🌟
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The CQ: The Decline of Mass Appeal, Free Returns, and Prime-Age Workers
What We're Reading and Talking About on Slack This Week
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The CQ: AI News You Can Use, Plus Gen Z Luxury Spending
We Tested Five AI Marketing Platforms with our Portfolio Company Sunday
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The CQ: Why the “Women at Work” Conversation Has Become “Caregivers at Work”
Why the caregiving crisis snuck up on our society with such severity — and what new solutions might have the most impact
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The CQ: The Gig Economy for Nurses and "Neurodiversity Advocates" on TikTok
What the Team is Reading and Talking About on Slack
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The CQ: The Influencer After Life and Rise of "Quiet Luxury"
What the Team is Reading and Talking About on Slack
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Welcome, Tally Health: Our Investment in the Future of Longevity
Only 10% of aging is determined by genetics. The other 90% is for us to control.
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The CQ: The Crumbling Infrastructure of the Web
The companies that disrupted Yahoo are now starting to look a lot like Yahoo
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