Sil­i­con Val­ley got a black eye a decade ago when its big ven­ture cap­i­tal for­ay into expen­sive and nascent clean­tech didn’t pan out—but its recent­ly renewed inter­est in a wider scope of tech­nolo­gies that can tack­le the cli­mate cri­sis could …
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As part of my series about the lead­er­ship lessons of accom­plished busi­ness lead­ers, I had the plea­sure of inter­view­ing Clint McKin­lay. A sea­soned glob­al busi­ness exec­u­tive, Clint McKin­lay is chief exec­u­tive offi­cer of Ruby Rib­bon, an inno­v­a­tive, social com­merce-dri­ven women’s …
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Inde­pen­dent cof­fee shops were hit hard by the pan­dem­ic last year. In Octo­ber, Euromon­i­tor Inter­na­tion­al pre­dict­ed that the U.S. would have just 25,307 coffee/​​tea spe­cial­ty out­lets by the end of 2020, a 7.3 per­cent drop year-over-year and the first such decline since …
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