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May 15, 2024
Material Bank’s new CEO is thinking beyond samples
Last fall, sampling giant Material Bank appointed Amazon and WeWork alum Sebastian Gunningham as CEO. BOH asked him what’s next for the company, and how much of his tech background will drive his strategy.
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February 7, 2024
Bright idea: The rise of the portable lamp
What started as a hospitality industry trend has begun sweeping residential interiors—cordless, battery-operated table lamps are the new must-have for lighting brands big and small.
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January 18, 2024
Is the ‘room in a box’ dead?
In theory, selling a prepackaged, shoppable room design offers designers a way to scale up without much overhead. In reality, the concept is harder to execute. Why have most of these ventures failed to take off?
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December 28, 2022
DTC’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year
After a golden era flush with cash, big ideas and wunderkind founders, the favorable landscape for direct-to-consumer startups hit the skids in 2022. Why are so many DTC brands shuttering, selling or flailing now? Fred Nicolaus breaks down three key reasons.
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