π With the natural motifs and expressive colors you know so well, we've added an absolute novelty to serve you Carmen. In the collection's goblets, where each foot presents a fruit in a tile, the cushion is made of faceted glass, creating an exotic dance between the transparency of the body and the exuberance of the base. Ceramic glasses, of different dimensions, reproduce the decoration of the goblets in high relief, allowing to harmoniously combine all pieces. In addition to creating a scene ...
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The home décor forecast calls for brighter days ahead with the addition of gold-tone accent pieces from Beatriz Ball.
The dynamic SIERRA MODERN Collection from Beatriz Ball is distinguished by three sculptural Maia bowls in a shimmering shade of champagne gold. The fabulous pieces are remarkable for their generous shapes, velvety surfaces and exuberant designs; on-trend items that are sure to delight.
Great centerpiece or fruit bowl, the large Maia bowl makes a dramatic statement ...
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How restaurants, hotels, and tableware brands are using loyalty programs--and what indie stores can learn from this.
October 11, 2023
Perk-y
I recently read about a new loyalty program and wondered what we could learn from it. The founder of Eater and Resy, Ben Leventhal, has started Blackbird, a loyalty program service designed for indie restaurants, reports The New York Times (Read the article). Using the Blackbird app, a diner receives a perk for eating at a restaurant. The retailer sets tiers for which the user qualifies for the perk. For example, a restaurant, Nat’s on Bank in New York City, gives tier 1 customers ...
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How competitive techniques can help lure clients and grow a network.
September 10, 2023
Andrew Chen shares in 'The Cold Start Problem' that many times, networks are competing in a zero-sum game. One network gets a customer to join their network and thereby not participate in another. For example, when a driver used Lyft instead of Uber, Uber, which Chen helped, lost. And it lost in two regards: Uber lost the revenue from the lost ride, and Lyft gained the revenue. Chen’s team was tasked with getting drivers to use all their time driving for Uber and thereby unraveling Lyft&...
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How premium plan tiers help businesses sell more and increase margins.
September 7, 2023
Dating apps are launching higher-priced premium tiers, according to last week’s The Wall St. Journal. Hinge offers a new $50/month plan, and Tinder is launching a $500/month plan. The League already offers a $1,000 plan. These pricey plans take the sting out of Bumble’s $60/month plan.
Why are companies offering such plans? Because even if Tinder only gets 10% of users, that's millions. Plus, the profit and margins are likely higher for customers using these plans. A normal ...
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Luxe SIERRA MODERN Maia bowls from Beatriz Ball are totally on-trend with gold finishes and shimmering brushed surfaces.
The magnificent Maia medium oval bowl—presented in an intoxicating shade of champagne gold--is a shining example. The striking piece is distinguished by its sculptural shape and exuberant design; an item that's sure to delight. Passionately handmade by skilled artisans in the company’s own foundry, the Maia bowls are made with a proprietary process that creates ...
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In the book The Cold Start Problem, Andrew Chen says that the 'network effect’ is really three effects:
The acquisition effect
The engagement effect
The monetization effect
In the beginning, a business seeking to build a network has to concentrate on acquiring users, even if they are non-paying. Companies often give away the service, especially software companies, and we can see that with Facebook, Slack, TikTok, and many others. Bridge didn’t do ...
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The home décor forecast calls for brighter days ahead with the addition of gold-tone accent pieces from Beatriz Ball.
The dynamic SIERRA MODERN Collection from Beatriz Ball is distinguished by three sculptural Maia bowls in a shimmering shade of champagne gold. The fabulous pieces are remarkable for their generous shapes, velvety surfaces and exuberant designs; on-trend items that are sure to delight.
Passionately handmade by skilled artisans in Beatriz Ball’s own foundry, the...
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In her new book ‘Quit,' Annie Duke shares that the best poker players only play 25% of the hands they are dealt, whereas others play 50%. Ms. Duke talks with Stewart Butterfield, the founder of a few startups, most recently Slack (which is an acronym, which I didn’t know). Slack wouldn’t have been born if Mr. Butterfield didn’t drop a video game company to start Slack. Likewise for Twitter which was born out of the failed blogging company Odeo. Ms. Duke's lesson: winners ...
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I don’t own a car, yet I have a strange desire to read Dan Neil's car column each weekend in The Wall St. Journal. Why would someone who doesn’t own a car, won’t be buying one soon, and hasn’t owned one in 25 years read a car column? It's a mix of enjoying the design and technology of automobiles, wanting to know what Dwayne Johnson may be buying next, loving Dan’s witty writing style, and, confession, simply being 13-years old at heart. Cars are ...
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When I flew home yesterday from Charleston, while most people were seeking relief from their sunburns and reminiscing about their vacations, I was delving into The Wall St. Journal’s profile on Tracy Britt Cool, an ex- Berkshire Hathaway star. Mrs. Cool’s new company Kanbrick invests in businesses with $10m - $50m in revenue. What does Mrs. Cool look for when investing in a company? People and moats.
At Bridge, we’re reading Jim Collins’ Beyond ...
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A new trend in retail is vacant shops in urban neighborhoods being converted to small warehouses. In the East Village on 10th Street, we see on the left the new warehouse model; on the right we see a traditional retailer. For the ‘store’ on the left, the customer orders via their mobile phone and then does a pickup or gets a delivery.
I’m seeing more of these ‘zombie stores’ around the city. Just in the East Village, I’ve seen four: ...
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Luxe SIERRA MODERN Maia bowls from Beatriz Ball are totally on-trend with gold finishes and shimmering brushed surfaces.
The magnificent Maia medium oval bowl—presented in an intoxicating shade of champagne gold--is a shining example. The striking piece is distinguished by its sculptural shape and exuberant design; an item that's sure to delight. Passionately handmade by skilled artisans in the company’s own foundry, the Maia bowls are made with a proprietary process that creates ...
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At Mottahedeh, we choose to be colorful. That is for dinnerware or decorative objects for your home.
The historical story is important to us, because it represents the best of a culture of the past. For our reproductions and adaptations of designs, we try to understand the perspective of someone in those times and be true to their idea. For instance, if we are making an adaptation of a dinner plate from the 1750’s we would not take one motif that is repeated six times around the plate and...
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The Holiday forecast calls for brighter days ahead with the addition of brilliant gold-tone accent pieces from Beatriz Ball.
The dynamic SIERRA MODERN Collection offers three new sculptural Maia serving pieces in a shimmering shade of champagne gold. The fabulous pieces are remarkable for their generous shapes, velvety surfaces and exuberant designs; on-trend items that are sure to delight your friends and family.
Passionately handmade by skilled artisans in Beatriz Ball’s own ...
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The home décor forecast calls for brighter days ahead with the addition of gold-tone accent pieces from Beatriz Ball.
The dynamic SIERRA MODERN Collection from Beatriz Ball is distinguished by sculptural Maia pieces in a shimmering shade of champagne gold. The fabulous pieces are remarkable for their generous shapes, velvety surfaces and exuberant designs; and are sure to make a dramatic statement wherever they are placed.
Passionately handmade by skilled artisans in Beatriz ...
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Luxe SIERRA MODERN Maia bowls from Beatriz Ball are totally on-trend with gold finishes and shimmering brushed surfaces.
The magnificent Maia medium oval bowl—presented in an intoxicating shade of champagne gold--is a shining example. The striking piece is distinguished by its sculptural shape and exuberant design; an item that's sure to delight. Passionately handmade by skilled artisans in the company’s own foundry, the Maia bowls are made with a proprietary process ...
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The Times' John Herrman covers what it takes to go without Amazon.
Amazon has appeared to upset people across the spectrum, as "anticapitalist liberal college student[s] and...uber-capitalist conservative grandparents are both boycotting Amazon.”
Yet, Amazon is now so large that it's hard to escape its reach. Even the The New York Times' website is hosted by Amazon AWS services.
Tableware Today magazine asked 71 industry professionals for their thoughts on 2021. I was one of those asked, and shared these answers to Editor Amy Stavis' questions:
What will be the most significant change for our industry in 2021?
J: As the famous business leader Marc Andreessen said, software is eating the world--and it's eating our industry like never before with Covid-19. The question is whether you're eating or being eaten. We’re all in the software business now. ...
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