Sam Blumenthal

Participation in the Decide phase spans from centralized to decentralized, describing the proportion of agents in the network having a voice in the decision-making process.  In the context of a network action that impacts a shared resource, bosses are indeed the final decision-makers, but more importantly they have the power to execute the actions... See more

The Chinese couple, based in New York City, was asked to showcase via Taobao Live a $43 million townhouse on the Upper East Side. They had more than 110,000 people tune in to their first livestreaming event, where they strolled the multilevel building and pointed to key features and tested amenities. Afterward, they received 43 inquires from... See more

Swaypay wants retailers to pay you instead of paying Google, Facebook, and Amazon.  Its mission is to bring financial empowerment back to retailers and shoppers alike by rerouting the billions of advertisement dollars back into shoppers' pockets as savings directly at the point of sale.

Successful businesses end up gaining market traction with paying customers, and then get on the radar of dashboards that measure visits, sales, upsell and cross-sell, Nour said via email.  That’s when the rollup or aggregator companies, which have assembled deep domain expertise in merchandising, branding, packaging, scale, supply chain and... See more

Third-party seller acquirers will continue to be popular because many of the large consumer packaged goods companies aren’t as good at selling online, according to Jason Stoffer, general partner at Maveron, a venture capital firm investing in consumer products and services.  “These aggregator companies are good at the online perspective with... See more