Walk into any Sephora and you’d swear the beauty industry has already produced all of the lipsticks, soaps, and bronzers that you could ever want. But, as is the nature of fashion, that doesn’t mean there isn’t room for more—there are products for every season, skin type, and time of day. It’s a market with […]

When the U.S. financial industry imploded in 2008, Robin Barone was caught in the middle of it. But rather than rushing to find a new job, she decided to take her “New York City banker buyout,” as she calls it, and travel the world for a year. One year turned into nearly two as she […]

It’s like the plot of a ‘90s comedy: a businessman buys a farm in the middle of nowhere as a real estate investment and unwittingly finds himself transformed into a full-time rancher and beef producer. But for Jeff Russell, member of WeWork Union Station in Denver, this is real life. Or something close to it. Russell is […]

When most people visit a new country, they buy a little something to bring home to remind them of their adventures—a treasure found at the local market, for example, or a piece of art or traditional clothing. For Marley Kaplan, that souvenir is always chocolate. Last June, Kaplan attended Startup Extreme in Norway, one of […]