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How American Girl Built a Multigenerational Business Empire with Dolls

It was 21 years ago when I got my first American Girl Doll. As any typical 10 year old does on a July summer day, I was curled up behind my bed doing some summer reading (The Secret of Nimh, in case you were wondering). The doorbell rang, and my Read more…

By Maria Polcari, 2 years11 months ago
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This is How Cat Cafés Took Over the World

Imagine you walk into the bar and you order a beer. Something brushes up against your leg. You hear a meow. No, it’s not Mardi Gras and you’re not in New Orleans. You are in one of many cat cafés around the world. Yes, this is a real thing. Cat Read more…

By Kenny Goodman, 2 years11 months ago
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How Minecraft Made $2.5 Billion From Scratch

Minecraft was created by a solo developer with a day job in 2009. The graphics are 8-bit and servers will boot you for no reason sometimes. By all accounts, Minecraft should have crashed and burned early. It is the best-selling video game of all time. Over 200 million copies have Read more…

By Brandon Rollins, 2 years11 months ago
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The Unusual Rise & Fall & Rise of Aeropostale

I was shopping with my wife at the gardening store, looking – in true millennial fashion – for plants we can’t kill. Suddenly, apropos of nothing, I wondered “what the hell happened to Aeropostale?” Aeropostale was everywhere when I was in high school from 2006 to 2010. You couldn’t go Read more…

By Brandon Rollins, 2 years11 months ago
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This is How Instagram Revolutionized the Tattoo Industry Forever

Tattoos are just about everywhere you look these days. Whether you are in a hospital, library, or even on a college campus, odds are, you can find someone who has a tattoo. A recent Ipsos poll showed that 30% of Americans had at least one tattoo in 2019, up from Read more…

By Pierson Hibbs, 2 years11 months ago
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Fight Island: The Weird Way UFC Thrived in a Pandemic

I’m glad 2020 is over, and I’m not alone. We’ve all been tested in every aspect of life in the last year, right down to the cancellation of sports. There was only one shining exception: the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). They took the drastic step of moving the ring all Read more…

By Pierson Hibbs, 2 years11 months ago

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