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How can travel entrepreneurs connect with adventurous consumers? Fixers, among other platforms, seeks to allow fitness influencers, chefs, artists and other entrepreneurs to tap into their expertise to bring events to travelers in faraway places. Fixers Founder and Chief Creative Officer Lisa Simpson explains how the platform seeks to build on this momentum — and tap into a new experience-first travel mentality.Read More...

Amazon and Walmart are fighting for online apparel dominance, with both retailers bolstered by private labels and well-known brands. Amazon has strong Prime membership and web traffic on its side of the field, while Walmart is leveraging its online and offline channels. What are the chances that Amazon overtakes Walmart in apparel sales this year, and which advantages can help it run past the $30 billion in apparel sales goalpost?Read More...

There are many easy things to assume: that cash is on the ropes, that Facebook is a necessary part of life and that constant innovation is a reasonable expectation. But the reality of all of those things is, by the numbers, a lot more complex than some conventional wisdom might lead one to believe. Read More...