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What Talons Understood About Men’s Grooming That the Beauty Industry Missed
Founder Sasha Dash painted his nails before Burning Man, the annual gathering in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert built around radical self-expression. The conversations that began there stayed with him longer than the gesture did, and so, when he returned home he went looking for ways to recreate that experience. When Sasha came across press-on nails he thought he’d found the perfect product, but there was just one problem: they didn’t exist in men’s sizes or shapes.
Management of cardiometabolic risk in prostate cancer: expert consensus from Singapore and Malaysia
Abstract Background: Prostate cancer is one of the most diagnosed malignancies among men globally, with androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) and androgen receptor-targeted therapy remaining central to the management of advanced disease. Despite their proven efficacy in controlling tumour progression, these therapies are associated with significant cardiovascular and metabolic risks.
How CPGs Have a Day-One Advantage
AI, automation, and just-in-time capital make it possible to launch new products faster. A decade ago, launching a consumer-packaged goods brand meant raising a war chest, leasing warehouse space, and spending months stitching together disconnected tools before a single unit shipped. Today, the infrastructure exists for a founder to wake up with a product idea and go to bed with a live storefront, AI-driven demand signals, and a capital partner who already understands the unit economics.
Growth Versus Margins: The Balancing Act Every CPG Brand Faces
Christopher Yang, Co-President of SHOPLINE. As co-president of SHOPLINE, a global commerce platform, the job puts me in front of small and mid-sized CPG brands across the U.S. almost every week. I see the same tension at every stage of their growth: how much to invest in the customers they have, and how much to spend chasing the ones they don't. A founder launches with a product they believe fills a gap. The first orders land, and the first retailer says yes.
Electrochemically Induced Reactivity of Ru–Arene Complexes Supported By Triarylphosphine Ligands Click to copy article link Article link copied!
Synthesis and Characterization of Bis(phosphine) and Solvento Complexes In order to test our hypothesis that the number of phosphine ligands in the byproducts of electrochemical oxidation can be identified from the effects of the X substituents on their reduction potential, we sought to investigate the electrochemical properties of bis(phosphine) analogues ( RuX-PAr3 ) of the previously studied RuX-Cl complexes.
What Walmart’s AI Pricing Patents Mean for Every Retailer
Algorithmic cost changes should not be a black box proposition. When Walmart wins patents for AI-driven pricing and rolls out digital shelf labels across thousands of stores, it never stays an inside-baseball story for long. In a matter of days, we’ve gone from an obscure filing at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to headlines about “surveillance pricing” and fears of surge pricing at the supermarket.
The Way People Shop Has Quietly Changed Forever - and Only Brands That Adapt Will Lead the Next Trillion-Dollar Market
d3sign | Getty Images Entrepreneur Media LLC and Yahoo Finance LLC may earn commission or revenue on some products and services through the links below. Something subtle but significant happened last holiday season — and most brands missed it. Before heading to Amazon or a retailer’s website, millions of consumers turned to tools like ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini to research what to buy. It wasn’t a novelty.
What Scarlett Fan Understood About Z Gallerie That Most Acquirers Miss
You probably remember a brand that shaped your taste. A store you walked into in your twenties that made you think differently about what a room could feel like. For a generation of design-forward consumers, that store was Z Gallerie — bold, glamorous, and unapologetically expressive. Then, like too many beloved names in home furnishings, it went quiet. Two bankruptcy filings. Twenty-one stores closed. By late 2023, the brand existed only as a memory and a warehouse in Gardena, California.
The Off-Site Front Door: Where Modern Shopping Journeys Actually Begin
A decade ago, merchants had a simple formula: Build a beautiful website, optimize checkout and watch customer traffic pour in through Google ads, search and email. That model no longer holds. Today, I’ve found that a single TikTok video can generate more revenue in 24 hours than most e-commerce sites facilitate in a month, and live shopping events can convert at something like three times your website’s rate.
With Over 200 Million Holiday Shoppers, How Many Will You Keep?
Christopher Yang, Co-President of SHOPLINE. The 2025 holiday season delivered record numbers. More than 200 million Americans shopped during the Thanksgiving-to-Cyber Monday window, and online spending for those five days passed $44 billion. For brands that executed well, customer lists swelled with new names and first-time buyers. The loud headline is how big Q4 was. The quieter, more important number is how many of those buyers are still with you by March.
How a Meat Stick Brand Built on $6,500 Reached $500 Million
What that growth reveals about CPG investment in 2026 When Pete Maldonado and Rashid Ali launched Chomps in 2012 with $6,500, they discovered something their competitors missed: 70 percent of meat snack buyers were women, in a category that had always marketed exclusively to men. That insight helped them build America’s fastest-growing snack brand—nearly $500 million in annual revenue—without chasing massive VC rounds or burning cash for growth.
How to Leverage Customer Preferences to Unlock More Revenue
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. While most ecommerce brands are still guessing what customers want based on their clicks, the smartest ones in 2025 simply ask — and the revenue gap is staggering. Companies that excel at preference-based personalization generate 40% more revenue than competitors still relying on behavioral guesswork, according to McKinsey.
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トップ テクノロジー サービス 小売革命の最前線：ソーシャルコマースがファストファッションを超える SHOPLINESHOPLINEの共同社長、クリストファー・ヤン氏。 20年前、私がeコマーステクノロジー業界に初めて足を踏み入れた頃、デジタル小売の世界は全く異なるリズムで動いていた。ファッションeコマースは予測可能なパターンに従っていた—四半期ごとの計画サイクル、季節ごとのキャンペーンスケジュール、構造化されたデジタルロードマップ。私たちが構築したテクノロジーは、セールイベントや休暇シーズン中の計画的なトラフィックスパイクを伴う、安定した予測可能な成長軌道に対応していた。 その世界はもう存在しない。 今日の状況では、1本のTikTok動画が無名の商品を一夜にして大ヒット商品に変え、従来のeコマースプラットフォームが1カ月かけて実現していた以上の売上を24時間で生み出す。2000年代初頭に小売業界に革命をもたらした従来のファストファッションモデルは、今やさらに速いものによって破壊されている：ソーシャルコマースだ。 20年サイクルが2日に縮小...
Brain-Computer Interfaces for Vision Recovery in Precortical Vision Loss
Christopher D Yang,1 Alan Guo,2 Ken Y Lin1– 3 1Gavin Herbert Eye Institute, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA; 2Department of Computer Science, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA; 3Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA Correspondence: Ken Y Lin, Gavin Herbert Eye Institute, Department of Computer Science, University of California Irvine, 850 Health Sciences Road, Irvine, CA, 92697-4375, USA, Tel +1 949-824-2020,...
Build a Billion-Dollar Business Without a Billion-Dollar Team - Using This Lean Growth Strategy
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. The most powerful businesses today aren’t born in boardrooms. They’re built in browser tabs, basements and DMs — by small teams (and often solo founders) who lead with clarity, cultural connection and systems that scale. Whether you’re launching a SaaS company, selling physical products, offering creative services or monetizing digital content, the way we build businesses has fundamentally changed.
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Public speaking expert: Here's my secret to making small talk 'less awkward' and 'more meaningful' Ever had a moment where you're talking to someone and suddenly can't think of what to say next? It can be awkward. Small talk is the side salad of …
How Social Commerce And Fast Fashion Are Reshaping Retail
Twenty years ago, when I first entered the e-commerce technology space, the digital retail landscape operated on an entirely different rhythm. Fashion e-commerce followed predictable patterns-quarterly planning cycles, seasonal campaign schedules and structured digital roadmaps. The technology we built accommodated these steady, foreseeable growth trajectories with planned traffic spikes during sales events and holiday seasons. That world is gone.
From Garage To Growth: How Founders Are Building The New CPG Unicorns
Christopher Yang, Co-President of SHOPLINE. getty Every legendary brand begins as a simple idea. A passionate entrepreneur with a vision—scribbled late at night on a laptop, sketched in a bustling warehouse or quietly nurtured as a weekend side hustle. But how does today's inspired idea become tomorrow’s iconic consumer brand? The romantic ideal of a solo entrepreneur building a billion-dollar brand in isolation is evolving—but the visionary spirit behind iconic companies remains vibrant.
[2505.16648] Collaboration among Multiple Large Language Models for Medical Question Answering
Work on one of the world's most important websites and make an impact on open science.
Beauty's New Frontier: Social Commerce And The Future Of Retail
Christopher Yang, Co-President of SHOPLINE. The beauty retail landscape is undergoing a dramatic social makeover. What once transpired at department store counters and Sephora aisles is now unfolding in TikTok livestreams and Instagram feeds, transforming how consumers discover, experience and purchase beauty products. Social commerce—the seamless fusion of social media and online shopping—has emerged as a powerful force, with beauty brands leading the charge.
SBU’s Origami Club transforms paper into purpose
A paper crane starts from a simple, six by six-inch square. The first folds show no semblance of the final creation. But these folds add up to create the basic structure of the bird, where fold by fold, wings are formed; soon after, a head pops out. To fold a crane without mistakes requires at least 20 folds, and during the annual month-long event of Cranes for a Cause, Stony Brook University’s Origami Club makes over 1,000 origami cranes — creating at least 20,000 folds every year.
Tabler hosts annual Block Party 2025: Gallery
Tabler Community hosted its annual Block Party on Thursday, April 24 right on the Tabler Lawn. Students gathered for the evening for live performances, yard games, free food and Do It Yourself (DIY) activities. It’s one of Tabler’s biggest events of the spring semester. Check out photos of the day here: Students participating in various activities during the Tabler Block Party on Thursday, April 24. CHRISTOPHER YANG/THE STATESMAN
Bridging East and West: How U.S. Beauty Brands Can Master Social Commerce
The beauty industry stands at a pivotal crossroads where social media and commerce have converged to create an entirely new retail paradigm. What began as a retail revolution in Asia has rapidly spread westward, transforming how American consumers discover, engage with, and purchase beauty products. This shift isn’t merely a trend—it’s a fundamental restructuring of the beauty retail landscape that promises to reshape brand–consumer relationships for decades to come.
Pocket Theater puts on “The Drowsy Chaperone”: Gallery
On April 11 – 13, the Stony Brook University Pocket Theater club held its annual spring musical at the Tabler Center for Arts, Culture and Humanities. This semester, they performed “The Drowsy Chaperone.” Here is a look into the night: The cast of "The Drowsy Chaperone" performing at the Tabler Black Box Theatre on Friday, April 11. CHRISTOPHER YANG/THE STATESMAN
The Zuccaire Gallery showcases “Traces: MFA Thesis Exhibition 2025”: Gallery
Stony Brook University’s Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery is showcasing graduating Master of Fine Arts students’ work from March 4 through April 12. The exhibition titled “Traces” features work from MFA students such as Diana Salomon, Hagar Masoud and Ria Rajan. The art in this showcase is a reflection of everything the students have encountered during their time in the MFA program. The themes explored are identity, history, trauma and transformation. Check out the exhibit here:
Signatures of Floquet electronic steady states in graphene under continuous-wave mid-infrared irradiation - Nature Communications
Abstract Light-induced phenomena in materials can exhibit exotic behavior that extends beyond equilibrium properties, offering new avenues for understanding and controlling electronic phases. So far, non-equilibrium phenomena in solids have been predominantly explored using femtosecond laser pulses, which generate transient, ultra-fast dynamics. Here, we investigate the steady non-equilibrium regime in graphene induced by a continuous-wave (CW) mid-infrared laser.
Campus Beautification Committee installs part one of two ART Tank pieces
Over winter break, two new art pieces were installed in the Frank Melville Memorial Jr. Library and the Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) Center by the same artist: Anika Griffing ‘24. These two new installations appear after Griffing and Mariana Suarez Molina, a junior majoring in health science, won the Campus Beautification Committee’s (CBC) first-ever ART Tank that provided support to display their artistic visions on the University’s campus.
Campus Beautification Committee hosts first ever ART Tank
The Campus Beautification Committee (CBC) hosted its first ever Art Rising Through (ART) Tank on Thursday, Oct. 24 in the Stony Brook Union. This initiative, started by the CBC, aims to “beautify” the University’s campus with artwork produced by members of its community.
Taiko Tides drums up community at Stony Brook
10 taiko drummers face their instruments, their whole bodies lunging with their arms facing out. After a brief countdown, the room reverberates with sound and rhythm. Energizing shouts erupt and the vibrations of the drums collide. These vibrations can be felt everywhere: throughout the room, down the hall and even two floors up. Emboldened by each consecutive hit, the drummers embody the culture of taiko, an art form that has existed for over 10,000 years.
Wolfie statue unveiled at academic mall
A life-size Wolfie statue was unveiled at the Academic Mall on Thursday, Sept. 26. Located in the space between the Psychology A building and the Frank Melville Jr. Memorial Library, the statue stands over six feet tall with a bench in front of it. At the unveiling, Wolfie made an appearance alongside key speakers such as Rick Gatteau, the vice president for Student Affairs, Scott Barrett, the interim vice president for University Advancement and Richard L.
SBU’s Origami Club Cranes for a Cause: Gallery
April 4, 2024 On Thursday, March 28, the Origami Club partnered with Music and Medicine in their Cranes for a Cause initiative. The Origami club won an award in 2023 for their “Progress” PRIDE Flag all made out of paper cranes, that hangs in the Charles B. Wang Center. The club continues to move forward with their initiative and is onto the next project. Here is a sneak peek at what’s to come: Your donation will support the student journalists of Stony Brook University.
Genome-wide screens identify SEL1L as an intracellular rheostat controlling collagen turnover - Nature Communications
Abstract Accumulating evidence has implicated impaired extracellular matrix (ECM) clearance as a key factor in fibrotic disease. Despite decades of research elucidating the effectors of ECM clearance, relatively little is understood regarding the upstream regulation of this process. Collagen is the most abundant constituent of normal and fibrotic ECM in mammalian tissues.
Pulsed ultrasound modulates the cytotoxic effect of cisplatin and doxorubicin on cultured human retinal pigment epithelium cells (ARPE-19)
Abstract Objective: Pulsed ultrasound has been proposed as a tool to enhance ocular drug delivery, but its effects on drug potency are not well understood. Doxorubicin-HCl and cisplatin are two drugs commonly used to treat ocular melanoma. We report the effects of pulsed ultrasound on the cytotoxicity of doxorubicin-HCl and cisplatin in vitro.
Optical Control of Slow Topological Electrons in Moir\'e Systems
Floquet moiré materials possess optically-induced flat-electron bands with steady-states sensitive to drive parameters. Within this regime, we show that strong interaction screening and phonon bath coupling can overcome enhanced drive-induced heating. In twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) irradiated by a terahertz-frequency continuous circularly polarized laser, the extremely slow electronic states enable the drive to control the steady state occupation of high-Berry curvature electronic states.
MFGE8 inhibits insulin signaling through PTP1B
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Enhancer evolution as a driving force for lineage-specific paralog usage in the central nervous system.
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Genome-wide screens identify SEL1L as an intracellular rheostat controlling collagen turnover
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Pyramids for Sale! Virtual Real Estate Hits the Market
When the world scampered around outside through high grass and into streets looking to “catch” fantastical creatures during the summer of 2016’s Pokémon Go craze, Hrish Lotlikar’s next great idea started percolating. “If we can’t build the next Pokemon Go, what if we could build a world?” Lotlikar wondered.
Horizen Labs Co-Founder Dean Steinbeck Shares What You Need to Know About Blockchain, Crypto, and Digital Assets
By Christopher Yang / The fact that esteemed 15-year crypto law veteran Dean Steinbeck is best known for his many projects within the emergent crypto, data privacy, and technology entities first and foremost (rather than favorite cars, vacation spots, investments, and other content found in corporate profiles) is proof that he truly knows his stuff and puts public awareness and his clients’ concerns first.
Q&A with Matilda Sung, General Partner, Ludis Capital Partners
Matilda Sung has established herself in a male-dominated world in a series of bold yet graceful plays. She's confidently invested $500,000 to $1 million into companies in the interconnected universes of sports media, sports betting, entertainment, and technology. However, she's also looking at the long game of these industries, not only ensuring they are on strong financial footing, but that they will also become more diverse with more women and people of color joining their ranks.
The Art of Financial “Goal” Setting: Q&A with Matilda Sung, General Partner, Ludis Capital Partners
Matilda Sung has established herself in a male-dominated world in a series of bold yet graceful plays. She’s confidently invested $500,000 to $1 million into companies in the interconnected universes of sports media, sports betting, entertainment, and technology.
Interview: Blockchain Game Company Lucid Sight Invests in Software Developers
Tell us about your recently acquired program, Colyseus, and why you wanted it in your portfolio. Lucid Sight acquired Colyseus in 2021 because it was our favorite multiplayer server engine. Colyseus is 6 years old and is the largest open-source JavaScript multiplayer framework in the world, with about 350,000 developer downloads. We launched a SaaS for Colyseus called Arena. The goal of the SaaS was to reduce the DevOps financial drag of bringing multiplayer to a game.
Blockchain Game Company Lucid Sight Invests in Software Developers Original
Randy Saaf, CEO, is accustomed to being at the industry forefront. He founded and exited from one of the first mobile gaming companies in 2008, Jirbo, well before Candy Crush and Angry Birds synonomized the iPhone as a casual gaming console. One could say his pioneer mentality remains with his Los Angeles-based gaming studio, Lucid Sight. Launching the first ever licensed sports NFT gave their team the energy and momentum to dive deeper into blockchain gaming possibilities.
The Power of a Palliative Perspective in Dermatology
[Skip to Navigation] May 11, 2022 JAMA Dermatol. Published online May 11, 2022. doi:10.1001/jamadermatol.2022.1298 Full Text In the essay “Letting Go: What Should Medicine Do When It Can’t Save You?,”1 Atul Gawande demonstrates the need for all physicians to confront the difficult conversations with patients from a place of honesty and humility.
NFTs in 2022: Origins, Industries, and Predictions
In March 2021, Christie’s auctioned off an NFT called “Everydays: The First 5000 Days” by digital artist Beeple for a record-breaking $69 million. The sale was a precursor to an eventful 2021, as “NFT” became a buzzword that mingled with “crypto” and Web 3.0. The technology peaked in Q4 of that year, with yearly sales soaring to $17.7B, 200 times the yearly sales in 2020.
In March 2021, Christie’s auctioned off an NFT called “Everydays: The First 5000 Days” by digital artist Beeple for a record-breaking $69 million. The sale was a precursor to an eventful 2021, as “NFT” became a buzzword that mingled with “crypto” and Web 3.0. The technology peaked in Q4 of that year, with yearly sales soaring to $17.7B, 200 times the yearly sales in 2020.
Successful Use of Apremilast in Psoriasiform Dermatitis Refractory to Biologics
Main Article Content Christopher Yang Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Victor Quan Department of Dermatology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Ahmad Amin Department of Dermatology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Keywords psoriasis, phosphodiesterase-4, biologics, psoriasiform dermatitis, atopic dermatitis, apremilast, methotrexate, dupilumab, cyclosporine, adalimumab, ustekinumab, guselkumab, ixekizumab Abstract Psoriasis is a common...
Council Post: How To Cultivate Organizational Resilience Before The Next Crisis
Vice President at Corporate Travel Management N.A., providing vision and executive leadership to the company's engineering organization. getty Resilience is critical to a firm's long-term sustainability. It improves employees' ability to respond to change without the stress and frantic reactions associated with extended periods of regressive behavior.
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