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Mental health innovation starts here
We’ve applied long-held principles of technology startups to industries across the board, from adult entertainment to transportat…
Who can solve our mental health crisis?
Young companies attempting to address our crippling mental health epidemic face a barrage of hurdles businesses with more traditi…
Retail has an innovation problem
It’s easy to buy something in a store—all it takes is the tap of a smartphone and you’re done. How come, then, buying things onli…
E-commerce is retail’s promised land
For an economy that’s almost constantly buying things, we sure have a lot of struggling retailers. That’s due to a confluence of …
Fresh Invest: The IPO Rush
Check out the first episode of Morning Brew's podcast with Fidelity, Fresh Invest.
Want to predict the future? Look to gaming
You might not know it, but the video gaming industry has long been the harbinger of life-changing, widespread tech we almost alwa…
How gaming wins the streaming wars
By some estimates, there will be about 3 billion gamers worldwide by 2023. For comparison, Netflix has 170 million subscribers gl…
Is legal marijuana a bubble?
Like any gold rush opportunity, legal marijuana will have fewer success stories than it will tales of failure. So how do we deter…
Legal weed: The winners and losers
We’re all but certain that recreational adult-use marijuana will become legal in all 50 states at some point. We’re not sure when…
The deficit matters...but just not right now
Rethinking the entire economic paradigm of any country would be almost impossibly difficult. Try to do it in the midst of a dual …
Does the U.S. deficit matter?
Who pays for it? It’s a question you hear all the time, especially when we’re talking about trillions of dollars in government sp…
Can campaign finance reform solve D.C.’s corruption problem?
We know there’s an ungodly amount of money tied up in politics, much of it collected in the campaign finance stage. What we often…
Is our democracy for sale?
How often do you think the biggest spender wins the election here in the U.S.? Would you be surprised to find out it’s 88.5% of t…
Is Silicon Valley losing its luster?
For decades, we’ve assumed geographic proximity to other innovators was a prerequisite for innovation—to change the world, you ne…
What does it take to succeed in business?
You’re going to need more than a good idea to become the next Jeff Bezos. It takes resources, information, connections, talent, a…
Can one recession undo years of progress?
By the end of April of this year, women’s job losses had erased a decade of employment gains...in a matter of months. The numbers…
Who does this recession hurt most?
Every recession causes its economic fractures in different ways. This one has disproportionately wrecked the service economy...an…
Will tech save the world...or end it?
Technology in its endless forms has given us so much—fire to make food, language to communicate feelings, and iPhones to look at …