TREND REPORTS
(PDF) Mckinsey - Redesigning The Design Department
[Business]
2022/05/24 09:10
The best corporate design departments are transforming from fortified castles into vibrant town squares.An old warehouse in the trendy part of town. Swipe-card access restricted to designers only. Translucent walls covered with sticky notes. A ludicrously expensive coffee machine.These are just some of the misconceptions and stereotypes about design departments and, even more so, design studios...
Untitled Basquiat Painting Sells for $85 Million at Auction
[Design]
2022/05/24 09:09
The 16 foot-wide work was consigned by Japanese e-commerce billionaire Yusaku Maezawa.A 16 foot-wide, 1982 painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat sold for $85 million on Wednesday night at Phillips in New York, yielding a 48% return for its seller, the Japanese e-commerce billionaire Yusaku Maezawa.Maezawa had purchased Untitled at Christie’s New York in 2016 for $57.3 million, making it, at the t...
(Video) The World's First Portable Range Hood - AirHood
[Product]
2022/05/24 09:08
Remove grease, smoke, cooking odors, & oil residue from forming.The AirHood™ team believes in challenging the status quo with ideas to redefine 'clean cooking'. For us, it's not only what you cook, but also how you cook. Join us on our mission to make clean cooking a reality for anyone - anywhere and anytime.We’re introducing AirHood™ - The Portable Range Hood. Removes grease, smoke, and...
Gartner - 3 Usage-Based Pricing Strategies for Tech Product Managers
[Business]
2022/05/24 09:07
Anticipate customer usage spikes and provide flexible pricing models that meet customer needs but remain profitable.Pricing models based on metrics such as number of users or transaction volumes often lack the flexibility that customers need to manage spikes in usage.Without well-thought-out pricing strategies to handle usage tier overages and unexpected bills, customer satisfaction and growth...
(Video) Enerdrape's Panels Harness Shallow Geothermal Energy to Heat Buildings
[Tech]
2022/05/24 09:06
Enerdrape's panels harness shallow geothermal energy to heat buildings. Modular geothermal panels provide year-round heating and cooling.Rather than drab grey walls, underground car parks can now feature stylish, colourful panels that are also sustainably heating the buildings above. Seeking to harness the power of shallow geothermal energy, Swiss startup Enerdrape has created modular, renewabl...
Huge Businesses Have Been Built On The Back of "Buy Now, Pay Later"
[Business]
2022/05/24 09:05
Everything old is new again.The simplest notion of credit, lending someone something, has been around in some form for literally thousands of years. Yet even in the 21st century people are still iterating on that core idea — the most recent innovation being "buy now, pay later" (BNPL) — a simple mechanism offered by companies like Klarna, Afterpay and Affirm that have become enormous business...
Sequoia Leads $37M Series B Funding Round In Singapore Metaverse Startup, BUD
[Investing]
2022/05/24 09:04
Singapore-based metaverse startup BUD announced on Monday that it is planning to launch NFTs after raising $36.8 million in a new round of funding, just months after completing its Series A round in February.The Series B round was led by Sequoia Capital India. According to tech publication TechCrunch, other investors include Chinese billionaire William Lei Ding’s online and mobile games compan...
Xiaomi and Leica Camera Announce Long-term Strategic Cooperation
[Product]
2022/05/24 09:03
Xiaomi and Leica share the same ideas regarding mobile imaging. Both companies are eager to continuously explore the optical performance and photographic experience in the mobile imaging era through extreme technological breakthroughs and aesthetic pursuits.Xiaomi, the world's leading consumer electronics and smart manufacturing company, and Leica Camera, whose legendary reputation is based on...
(PDF) The 2022 State of Crypto and Web3 Report
[Investing]
2022/05/23 09:10
A lot has changed in the state of crypto since we started investing in the area nearly a decade ago.This report is the first of what will be an annual overview of trends in the crypto industry, shared through the a16z crypto vantage point of both tracking data and across the countless entrepreneurs and builders we meet. It’s for anyone who seeks to understand the evolution of the internet, and...
