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Forenza: Exclusive patents prevent competitors from measuring EEG via ear cuff
“There is a IP in the hardware itself, in the form factor, in the ear cuff.
Ben Zices: Is that protected?
Antonio Forenza: Yeah, we have, yeah.
Ben Zices: So nobody else can measure EEG with an ear cuff device.
Antonio Forenza: Yes.”
FolioWorks has access to 3 million students approved for Federal Work-Study
“So we partner with every college career center, and so we have access to all of their three million students that are approved for work study.”
Rosenblum: Lunar Wireless Patented Its Pay-Per-App Mobile Technology
“These deals are not super common and like all of the whole process of paying per app is patented. And so all of that is our core technology.”
Smith: 60% of the Top 500 Internet Retailers Lack Mobile Apps
“If you're looking at the IR 500, which is a sampling of the top 500 retailers in the market, 60% of those retailers don't have a mobile app.”
Meghan Carreau: Childhood obesity has nothing to do with socioeconomic status
“That's actually a common misconception, though, because there are lots of kids, you know, one out of three kids and one out of five developing OPC-related disease actually has nothing to do with socioeconomic.”
Trofimova: CPG brands spend $2T globally on untraceable marketing
“It's two trillion dollars globally is what they spend on marketing, completely in the blind, with no traceability.”
Wheaton: Wardrobe and Pickle aren't truly peer-to-peer and hold centralized inventory
“A lot of the examples that I've seen, for example, wardrobe or pickle, a lot of these very recent platforms that are popping up are not actually entirely peer-to-peer. They call themselves peer-to-peer, but they still have centralized closets where you pick up…”
Goldberg: Most consumers are perfectly happy with standard apparel sizing
“And then the majority of people are actually happy with the standard sizing systems.”
Lee: No existing platform combines patent and financial analytics
“What we based on our research, there's no one company or no one platform that brings them together.”
Impalameni: There are an estimated 100 million DJs worldwide
“So there's an estimated hundred million DJs around the world.”
Burton: Missing class in the first two weeks leads to failing
“If you miss any amount of time in the first two weeks of class,
You are not going to complete or pass that class.”
Hedges: Food-grade organic ingredients have never been used in beauty before
“We use food grade, which has not been done before in the beauty industry, organic ingredients.”
Smith: Sandbox Commerce Is the Only Fully Native Retail App Builder
“We are the only company that builds fully native apps.”
Agrawal: THINX reached $50M in revenue under my leadership
“Yeah, we did fifty million under my leadership.”
Manus: There Are More Concussions in Soccer Than Football
“There are more concussions in soccer than there are in football.”
Sánchez: 70% of Mexican SMBs Are Profitable When Bankrupt
“Did you know that 70% of all SMBs in Mexico are actually profitable when they go bankrupt?”
Kennison: Heatless Curlers Are Number Two Beauty Product Trend
“I've seen this market go from nothing to being the number two beauty product trend out of all the beauty products out there. More heatless curlers are being bought than any other beauty product out there.”
Brown: More Gen Z converted to Christianity than Millennials or prior generation
“Statistically, there are more Gen Z's that have converted to Christianity than there have been Millennials and the prior generation.”
Manus: Number one books in publishing are always faith-based
“And the number one books are always faith-based books.”
Braima: African VC Funding Declines at Similar Rate to US
“When funding goes down in America, it goes down in Africa at the similar rate, right?”
Trofimova: Nearly one-third of all Instagram content is food and recipes
“In fact, almost a third of all Instagram content is food and recipe content.”
Metzer: Measuring Step Impact Previously Required Expensive Lab Equipment
“Until now, there was not a good way for runners to measure that on every step. You'd have to go into a lab and run on a very expensive piece of equipment, and that was the only option”
Burton: Recovered Stolen Bikes Lack Owner Identification
“Because a large majority of stolen bikes are recovered. They just have no way to associate them with an owner.”
96% of Americans are confused about recycling rules
“96% of Americans are also confused on how to recycle.”
Luke Barkley Young: Only 6% of recyclables in US bins are recycled
“And many people know that recyclables in America, of everything we put into our recycling bins, only around six percent of them are actually recycled.”
Kinzie Lux: 8M equestrians ride solo 4 out of 5 times
“Eight million equestrians ride without a coach for four out of five weekly rides.”
The US has 60,000 jewelry retailers, but only 9,000 operate online
“Right now there are about 55 to 60,000 retailers just in the United States. So if I take that percentage of ones that are already online, that's about 9000 give or take brands.”
Wheaton: $334 billion in clothing assets sit in US women's closets
“There's three hundred thirty four billion dollars in assets sitting in women's closets across the U.S.”
Coder: Aunt Flow is the only direct B2B organic cotton tampon supplier
“So Ontflow is actually the only company that works directly with businesses to supply them with 100% organic cotton tampons.”
Trucking firms leave 45% of assets unutilized, spend $20K per hire
“For trucking companies, 45% of their assets are being unutilized, and they're spending between 15 K to 20 K directly or indirectly to hire a truck driver.”
Daraby: The average mobile app is used under six minutes daily
“The average app is used for less than six minutes a day.”
Metapixel claims image theft costs creators $600 billion every day
“There are over 2.5 billion images stolen and six hundred billion in lost revenue daily.”
Muccio: Restaurant worker tenure averages under two months
“Like, most jobs, most positions, the average is less than two months that people stick around.”
Muccio: Female founders received only 2.2% of $130B in VC funding
“Only 2.2% of the hundred and thirty billion in venture dollars last year went to female founders.”
Brown: Target market is around 11 million frequent Black travelers
“The numbers are somewhere around eleven million in terms of our target market of folks that are actually traveling three to four times a year, at least two of those being international”
Schmorak: Vacation rental software represents a $25B global market
“There are about a 100,000 of these companies in the world, and they spend about a quarter of a million dollars every year on software, so it's a twenty-five billion dollar market.”
Passett: Bloomberg terminals do not provide patent or product data
“So with the Bloomberg terminal, you can get financial data, but you're not necessarily going to get data about patents or the products”
Brownridge: 87% of dogs go on weekly errands with their owners
“87% of dogs are going on errands with their owners every week. 38% are going every single day.”
Brownridge: 60% of stores are legally prohibited from allowing dogs inside
“And the problem they're running into is about 60% of stores are legally prohibited from allowing dogs inside because of federal health regulations.”
Mullen: Only 10% of Americans cook at home
“Only 10% of Americans cook, you know, and I need to meet my consumer where they're at, and I'm not gonna convince, you know, 90% of Americans to cook by an oil and vinegar line.”
Bhatak: Women and POC are far more likely to quit in year one
“For example, women are two times more likely to leave their job in the first year than men. People of color are three and a half times more likely to leave their job within the first year than their white counterparts, and so...”
Burton: Federal financial aid legally requires colleges to take attendance
“What folks don't realize is that federal financial aid legally requires colleges to take attendance.”
Burton: 85% of college students use federal financial aid
“85% of all college students are able to pay for it through federal financial aid.”
Chelsea Lee: Slow delivery caused $135B in cart abandonment last year
“There was over seven hundred billion dollars last year alone left in total shopping cart abandonment. Of that, one hundred and thirty five billion was left specifically because people couldn't get their shampoo fast enough or people couldn't get their air, air…”
Hedges: Lolli is only beauty brand displaying every ingredient percentage
“And if you see the graph on the label, we're the only beauty company to show you every ingredient and what level it's in, in the product.”
Hedges: 60% of US millennials buy food-grade ingredients for DIY skincare
“60% of US millennials are already buying food grade ingredients to blend their own beauty products at home, because they feel it's better for them.”