The CQ | Can consumer spend stay high?

April 27, 2024

The CQ | Great Food Doesn’t Scale…Until it Does: Wonder’s Big Swing at Reshaping the Restaurant and Delivery Model

April 20, 2024

The CQ: Boomers Love Temu, While Gen Z'ers Increasingly Aren't Working or in School

April 13, 2024

The CQ: The Biggest Pain Points in Healthcare, According to Consumers

April 06, 2024

The CQ: Leading Stress-Free's Series A Round to Bring Transparency and Reliability to Auto Care

March 30, 2024

The CQ: 13 Noteworthy Stats from Forerunner's Inaugural Consumer Trend Report

March 23, 2024

The CQ: Why We Are Spending So Much & One Reason Gen Z is Still on Facebook

March 16, 2024

The CQ: Many Americans Believe Economy is Rigged & the Only-Child Boom

March 09, 2024

The CQ: Let the Data Speak -- Consumer Startups Are a Better Bet Than Enterprise Startups

March 02, 2024

The CQ: Teen Subcultures are Fading & Why Costco is So Loved

February 24, 2024

The CQ: When Your Technical Skills are Eclipsed & Bank of Mom and Dad Close

February 18, 2024

The CQ: American Shoppers Remain Undeterred & Stand-Out Trust in Small Businesses

February 10, 2024

The CQ: Humans Needed in the AI-Fueled Work & Religious "Nones" on the Rise

February 03, 2024

The CQ: Upbeat Consumers & TikTok as a Search Engine

January 27, 2024

The CQ: Plant-Based Has Lost Meaning & Millennials 'Carpooling for Homes'

January 20, 2024

The CQ: OpenAI Launches GPT Store & Taylor Swift's Le Creuset Campaign

January 13, 2024

The CQ: Parents Risk Retirement to Support Children & The Year Millennials Aged Out of the Internet

January 06, 2024

The CQ: Financial Compatibility > Physical Attraction for Gen Z and What Netflix' Viewership Data Reveals About the Internet

December 23, 2023

The CQ: The Math For Home Buying And What Happens To All The Stuff You Don't Want

December 16, 2023

The CQ: Mobile's Jolly Holiday and the Mismatch of the Economy and Consumer Sentiment

December 09, 2023

The CQ: A $9.8B Black Friday and Millennials' $525,000/year Threshold for Happiness

December 02, 2023

The CQ: Leading Craftwork’s Seed Round to Build the Beloved Consumer Brand in Home Services

November 18, 2023

The CQ: The Cult of Erewhon and $9/mo Primary Care

November 11, 2023

The CQ: Introducing our New Head of Research (Who Will Look Quite Familiar)

November 04, 2023

The CQ: Our 2023 Reflections and Forward Looking Focus

October 28, 2023

The CQ: A Banner Growth Year for Glossier, Dutch's Series B, the Debut of Fora X

October 21, 2023

The CQ: Musings from HLTH and the Rise of Well-Care

October 14, 2023

The CQ: The Fading Excellence of Amazon and Google, and the US's Declining Life Expectancy

October 07, 2023

The CQ: Faire + Shopify, an Unstoppable Duo For Retail Small Businesses

September 30, 2023

The CQ: Gen Z's surprising Optimism for the Tuture, and Moms-For-Hire

September 23, 2023

The CQ | Delivering on One of Tech’s Holy Grails: Duckbill, the AI-Powered Personal Assistant

September 16, 2023

The CQ: How Atticus is Getting Americans in Crisis the Aid They Deserve

September 09, 2023

The CQ: Unexpected Comebacks, and The Biggest CPG Company in the World

August 26, 2023

The CQ: The Rise of "Kidulting" and Why Americans Became So Mean

August 19, 2023

Welcome, Topline Pro: Building the Tech Stack for the Underserved Home Services Industry

August 05, 2023

The CQ: Oddity's Debut and Rise of “Science-washing”

July 29, 2023

The CQ: A New Model for Digital Entrepreneurship and an Early Look at Gen Alpha

July 22, 2023

The CQ: The Startup Industry's "Giant Pressure Cooker" With Mental Health Challenges

July 15, 2023

The CQ: Threads Becomes Most Rapidly Downloaded App, While TikTok Comes at Amazon's

July 08, 2023

The CQ: Uber, Venmo and PayPal for Kids, and Rising Dollar Store Popularity With the 1%

July 01, 2023

A Reckoning for the Creator Economy and Doctors' Bedside Manner Via AI

June 17, 2023

The $3B Summer Camp Industry and Growing Fatigue with The American Dream

June 10, 2023

From Digitally Native Brand to Digitally Native Franchise: a New Model for Commerce and Entrepreneurial Empowerment

June 03, 2023

The CQ: Welcome, Boombox — a new AI-powered approach to music collaboration

May 27, 2023

The CQ: Brand Power Score, our New, Quantitative Measurement for Brand Impact

May 20, 2023

The CQ: The Decline of Mass Appeal, Free Returns, and Prime-Age Workers

May 13, 2023

The CQ: AI News You Can Use, Plus Gen Z Luxury Spending

May 06, 2023

The CQ: Why the “Women at Work” Conversation Has Become “Caregivers at Work”

April 29, 2023

The CQ: The Gig Economy for Nurses and "Neurodiversity Advocates" on TikTok

April 22, 2023

The CQ: The Influencer After Life and Rise of "Quiet Luxury"

April 15, 2023

Welcome, Tally Health: Our Investment in the Future of Longevity

April 08, 2023

The CQ: The Crumbling Infrastructure of the Web

April 01, 2023

The CQ: Let’s Not Let What Happened to Web3 Happen to AI

March 25, 2023

The CQ: Reflecting on The Past Week+ at Forerunner

March 18, 2023

Welcome, Jump! A Win-Win-Win for Fans, Teams, and Venues

March 04, 2023

The CQ: A "Richcession" and Malls Rebrand as Work-Live-Play Centers

February 25, 2023

The CQ: The 60-Year Career and Gen Z Selfie Palace

February 18, 2023

Are Consumers Really Freaking Out?

February 11, 2023

The CQ: The Next Wave of Game-Changing Companies Will be Life-Changing Companies

February 04, 2023

The CQ: The Rise of the "Shoppy Shop," powered by Faire

January 28, 2023

The Historically Low Birth Rate and the Return of Flip Phones

January 21, 2023

Affordable Childcare as Wellness and the Structural Labor Shortage

January 14, 2023

The loneliness epidemic and what White Lotus tells us about luxury goods

January 07, 2023

Going Back to Go Forward: Foundational Needs Take Center Stage

December 17, 2022

The CQ: Inflation’s latest victim? Holiday gift giving

December 10, 2022

The CQ: Sustainability Without the Hefty Price Tag

December 03, 2022

The CQ: Should your brand be in the metaverse?

November 19, 2022

The CQ: Empathy as a superpower

November 12, 2022

The CQ: 👍 or 👎 for Executive Recruiters?

November 05, 2022

The CQ: The most overlooked P&L line item

October 29, 2022

The CQ: Stressed about holiday shopping? So are retailers.

October 22, 2022

The CQ: The holy grail of greener living

October 15, 2022

The CQ: Human-in-the-loop commerce

October 08, 2022

The CQ: Supply chains are more than cost centers

October 01, 2022

The CQ: Social Commerce Without Social Networks?

September 24, 2022

The Joy & Pain of Compounding

September 17, 2022

The CQ: A Better Business Strategy for the Streaming Wars

September 10, 2022

The CQ: Hot Topics 🔥

September 03, 2022

The CQ: Has Tipping Reached a Tipping Point?

August 27, 2022

The CQ: Save Your Employees; Fire Your Customers

August 20, 2022

The CQ: Will Millennials & Gen Z Show Recession Resilience?

August 13, 2022

The CQ: The Importance of Whale Watching

August 06, 2022

The CQ: The Playbook for B2B E-Commerce

July 30, 2022

The CQ: When Climate Becomes an Economic (Not a Feel-Good) Decision

July 23, 2022

The CQ: 10 Years of Forerunner 🌟

July 16, 2022

The CQ: Why Startups Will Accelerate Livestream Shopping

July 09, 2022

The CQ: Surviving the "Creator Economy Winter"

July 02, 2022

The CQ: The Great Resignation Is Everywhere

June 25, 2022

The CQ: Why Are DTC Brands Pursuing Traditional Retail?

June 18, 2022

The CQ: Normalizing Founder-CEO Transitions

June 11, 2022

The CQ: When Brands' Inclusive Gestures Don't Feel Sincere

June 04, 2022

The CQ: BNPL Debt Is Coming for Consumers

May 28, 2022

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