Rachel Elias Wein

If you were starting your business today, how would you do it differently? Much has been made about the founder’s mentality and how it can be used to help companies…

Growth brings complexity—and complexity is the No. 1 culprit in stagnation. But this doesn’t mean established companies have to lose the startup mindset and turn sluggish with time. Nor do startups…

Is it the sixth inning? Maybe it’s the ninth? In conversations of late, I’ve sensed an edge of concern among industry professionals. While I do love baseball (Go Rays), I…

In what has become a recurring nightmare for me, I give you the Tampa Airport renovation in light of new Uber stats. In Q4 2015, business travelers using Uber surpassed those using rental…

If you missed our panel on Big Data’s impact on the built environment, you can watch it here.

In last month’s newsletter, we focused on the potential for Big Data to overthrow timeworn assumptions. A new program by Foursquare is the latest example of how this data renaissance…

By Joel Groover Ramping up convenience via smaller stores and showrooms. In response to the fiscal crisis of 2008, many retailers focused on slashing prices in their existing stores or…

This month we’re exploring how Big Data is impacting real estate and retail as a means of questioning timeworn assumptions. Ourpost looks at how some companies are finding success in…

Questioning timeworn assumptions in the age of Big Data These days, some retailers are almost too good at extracting information about their customers [remember the story about how Target is…