PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2019

At one point, she was staying at a hotel in Chicago, where she fell in love with a coffee table book. She ended up getting the coffee table book from the hotel after asking for permission. The idea led to her experiential hospitality startup, The Sursy, which offers consumers shoppable stays in a Denver home share. (A

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PYMNTS

JULY 4, 2019

Those consumers — given their travel habits, and relatively high sense of adventure — are looking for seamless experiences that go beyond the price tag. The company partners with manufacturers, stores, coffee shops, hostels and resorts to offer gear rentals to consumers via the Awayco platform. Travel Partnerships.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 26, 2018

Instead of relying purely on cameras and sensors to determine what users place in their shopping carts and then auto-charging them through their Amazon payments account when they walk out the door, BingoBox’s items come embedded with a radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag. The unattended retail revolution is warming up in the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Before we get into the myriad ways fresh juice startup Juicero managed to propel itself into the annals of the more spectacular startup flameouts, firmly securing this week’s Fizzle Award, we would like to give a small shout-out to the minor sizzle that issued from Juicero’s ashes. Fizzle of the Week: Juicero.

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PYMNTS

MAY 5, 2017

startups grabbed $1 billion in the first quarter of 2017, which is a pretty nifty sum when on the heels of Brexit, which took many by surprise and, in fact, is above the tally raised in each of the previous three quarters. The latest stats from Starbucks showed that the duality of coffee and mobile are healthy amid foot traffic as well.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 2, 2023

And then within LVMH, I moved to Tag Heuer, which is a pure watch business — RITHOLTZ: Right. It was really kind of in the Tag Heuer timeline for me, career-wise, that I became aware of Ben and of Hodinkee. So it’s like saying, hey, design me a coffee cup. Here’s your coffee cup. RITHOLTZ: Yes, please.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 16, 2023

I’m like, “You spilled hot coffee on me.” I can either just give it away for free, which, you know, I started the cash tag dollar sign… RITHOLTZ: Right. So street.com says, we’ll give you this amount of money. And I say, deal. Like I’m like, I’m like Kramer in Seinfeld. You got me.”

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