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Market Research: Your Startup’s Blueprint to Thrive

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Launched in 2016, they hit a valuation of $1.4 billion by 2019 and over $219 million in revenue by 2021 proving green can mean gold. Allbirds Allbirds, the eco-sneaker startup surveyed potential buyers, prototyped with wool obsessively, and leaned on focus groups to confirm people wanted sustainable shoes that didnt suck to wear.

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

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The “cardinal objective of US grand strategy,” Colby wrote in a 2021 book , should be to deny China “hegemony” over Asia. New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd infamously called Trump “Donald the dove” during the 2016 campaign. He’s already threatening sanctions on Putin.) But Trump has never been anything like a peacenik.

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$500 Billion AI Investment To Create 100,000 Jobs, Trump Says

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He talked about the topic often during his first term as president from 2017 to 2021, but never delivered on a large investment, and “Infrastructure Week” became a punchline.

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The absurd fight over Trump’s MAGA prosecutor in New Jersey, explained

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In 2022, for example, Habba represented Trump in a lawsuit against his 2016 presidential opponent, Hillary Clinton, that accused Clinton of “racketeering” by linking Trump’s campaign to Russia. In 2021 alone, federal judges sentenced a convicted offender in 57,377 cases.

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5 reasons to be grateful for air conditioning

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As a 2021 review in the Lancet explained it , air conditioning “is set to become the most prevalent strategy worldwide for coping with hot weather and heat extremes.” Seven hundred and thirty-nine people died in the great Chicago heat wave of 1995, but having a working air conditioner reduced the risk of death by 80 percent.

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Canada’s Unemployment Hit Multi-Year High In May

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This level of unemployment was last seen in September 2016 after the COVID-era unemployment numbers of 2020 and 2021 are excluded, StatsCan said. The unemployment rate ticked up to 7% in May from 6.9% “People are facing greater difficulties finding work in the current labor market,” it said.

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For years, women complained that this medical procedure was painful. Doctors are finally listening.

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Research prior to 2016 found that patients described IUD placement as causing them “minimal discomfort” or “uncomfortable,” and rated it four on a pain scale of one to 10. The reality is more complicated. There’s clear guidelines from medical organizations that are saying this [medication] should be offered,” Haydanek says.

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