In 2019, The Hustle sent out 1k+ news briefs in our Daily newsletter, 52 original stories in our Sunday edition, and 70+ Trends reports.
Here were the ones that y’all liked most:
Best of our 2019 Daily coverage
Best of our 2019 Sunday stories
Best of our 2019 Trends stories
- Online Plant Sales are Set to Bloom
- Young consumers are altering a $48B brick-and-mortar business through direct-to-consumer houseplant sales.
- The Big Business of Expired Pharmaceutical Patents
- The story behind how Hims went from $7m funding round to $1.1B valuation in under 2 years, through DTC pharma, expired patents, and targeted SEO.
- Boring Trade Show Businesses Are Minting Billions. Here’s How.
- An in-depth look at 3 business trade shows that are making hundreds of millions of dollars in annual profit, with higher operating margins than Atlassian, Walmart, P&G, and Salesforce.
- Cashing in on Canvas
- The secondary market for limited-release sneakers is minting money for teenage sneakerheads and VCs alike.
- How One Company Created a Niche Market for Young People Who Want Fancy Bibles
- Alabaster is updating the centuries-old religious text for the Instagram age, selling out 10k copies. Hundreds of other books are ready for their own hip makeovers, including works by Mark Twain, H.G. Wells, Edith Wharton going public in 2020.