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Market Research: Your Startup’s Blueprint to Thrive

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billion by 2019 and over $219 million in revenue by 2021 proving green can mean gold. Launched in 2010 with $2,500, they hit an estimated $100 million in sales by 2015, disrupting optometry in record time. Launched in 2016, they hit a valuation of $1.4 Duolingo Duolingo sniffed out the demand for learning languages.

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There’s a bitter clash on the right. It could determine whether Trump takes us to war.

Vox Open Sourced

During his first presidential bid, in 2015, he trashed the war as a debacle and a “ tremendous disservice to humanity ” — suddenly giving the isolationists in the party, long an irrelevant fringe, a new life. The “cardinal objective of US grand strategy,” Colby wrote in a 2021 book , should be to deny China “hegemony” over Asia.

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Why America is murdering less

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Baltimore, like many other cities in the US, received a massive influx of federal funding in 2021 from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA). It came in 2015, after a young Black man named Freddie Gray was killed in police custody.

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How to Avoid the Patent Trap That's Quietly Draining Your Startup's Budget

Entrepreneur.com

It was pulled from sale in 2015 (and again in 2023) due to poor adoption , illustrating how patents tied to unvalidated products offer no return. Without that market pull, even a granted patent is a dead weight. For example, Google Glass — once hyped as the future of AR eyewear — never found a viable consumer market. Apply now to join.

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Ketamine is suddenly everywhere

Vox Open Sourced

According to a study co-authored by Yang and published earlier this year, the percentage of Americans who reported using ketamine within the past year grew by 82 percent from 2015 to 2019, took a brief dip in 2020 — possibly because of the pandemic complicating people’s access to the drug — and then rose another 40 percent from 2021 to 2022.

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It Doesn’t Take a Miracle, Just Faith

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More than 600,000 people with special needs have had their Night to Shine since 2015, each participant receiving a red-carpet welcome and each participant ending the evening being crowned king or queen. Today, it’s a worldwide movement—in 2025 alone, more than 800 Night to Shine events were held in 63 different countries.

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1 in 5 Humans Got a New Smartphone in 2015

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in 2015 to a total of 1.43 In other words, 1 out of every 5 people in the world got a new smartphone in 2015. Gartner is forecasting 2015 mobile phone shipments (smart and otherwise) of 1.9 billion, which means 26% of humans got a new cellphone (smart and otherwise)  in 2015.  billion in 2021.

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