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Should Emerging Beauty Brands Be Filling C-Suite Roles Earlier Than Ever?
At Beauty Independent’s Dealmaker Summit last month, Rich Gersten, co-founder and managing partner at beauty and wellness venture capital firm True Beauty Ventures, advised today’s emerging beauty brand founders to think about recruiting a...
Why Uplink Expo Exhibitors Are Hopeful About The State Of Independent Beauty
Last week, brand founders, suppliers and retail buyers gathered...
How Dermatologists Can Ethically Disseminate Skincare Information On Social Media
In 2018, the American Academy of Dermatology Association (AAD), a professional organization of dermatologists with over 20,500 members, issued a position statement on medical professionalism in the use of social media that emphasized dermatologists should maintain patient...
Alternatives Black-Owned Beauty Brands Are Looking To As VC And Grant Funding Dwindles
As tough as the venture capital contraction is for startups generally, it’s far tougher for Black-founded startups. Data from financial resource Crunchbase shows that VC funding for Black-founded startups in the United States totaled $705 million last...
Are Beauty Product Launches And R&D Due For A Correction?
In a recent LinkedIn post, cosmetic chemist Kelly Dobos wrote, “I expect some big contractions in the beauty industry in coming years. R&D (and product launches) will experience shrink and become more focused but regulatory,...
Beauty Brands’ Life Expectancy And The Implications For M&A
According to management consultancy McKinsey & Co., the life expectancy of an S&P 500 company in 1935 was 90 years. In 2010, it was 14 years—and company life expectancy has only shrunk since then. Andrew...
