The Start-Up That Wants You to Ditch Your Gym Membership
Do you wish you could just pay for the gym on the days you use it instead of investing in a year-long or month-long membership? POPiN is a startup that enables users to pay for the gym only when they use it.
Dalton Han is the Co-founder and CEO of POPiN. The platform launched this past summer and partners with local gyms to bring in more consumers. Han says 70% of their consumers are millennials. That population has bought into the sharing economy the most.
Han does not view Soul Cycle as a competitor, he views the company as a future potential partner. He is looking to expand the reach of POPiN and the opportunities it provides.
Irrigation might have saved Jackson's hay, but she and her husband rejected the idea about 10 years ago over the cost: as much as $75,000 for a new well and all the equipment. But now — with an extended drought and another U.S. heat wave this week that will broil her land about an hour northwest of Dallas for days in 100-degree-plus temperatures — Jackson said she is “kind of rethinking.”
Children’s advocacy groups including Fairplay and Common Sense Media are asking the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Google, saying the tech giant serves personalized ads to kids on YouTube despite federal law prohibiting the practice.
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