When Jinhee Kim had a difficult time navigating the quaint, cobblestoned streets of London’s Notting Hill during a window-shopping excursion, she questioned why there wasn’t an app for consumers to discover shops around them in real time. “Location-based apps like Foursquare and Yelp were popular for food options, but I couldn’t find one for fashion […]

We recently sat down with Fawziah Qadir, the New York City program coordinator for Global Glimpse, for our Member Spotlight series. This 29-year-old Fulton Center member is spearheading the education non-profit’s New York branch to inspire young students to become responsible global citizens. A self-proclaimed “eternal optimist” and “social entrepreneur”, Qadir always knew that she […]

Member Spotlight is a series that showcases the entrepreneurs behind emerging companies. In this edition, we recently sat down with Zack Christenson and George Yates of Crowdskout in Washington D.C. Crowdskout is a growing startup building a data and analytics platform to help publishers and marketers connect with their audience. These native Midwesterners are combining […]

Event planning is a notoriously stressful business, but New York City-based entrepreneur Lynn McCary makes sure every event runs seamlessly under her watch through quick problem solving and expert multitasking. McCary, the founder of Lynn McCary Events (LME), runs her own boutique event planning company that specializes in fundraising for cultural organizations. With over 20 […]

Reserving table service at a popular nightclub on a bustling Saturday night can seem impossible. Boston-based startup Tablelist, however, aims to make that process easier by giving everyone the chance to get VIP treatment at a click of a button through the app. They’re getting rid of the archaic system of booking tables with promoters […]

Do What You Love is a series that showcases the entrepreneurs behind emerging companies. In this edition, we sat with Jonathan Tushman, technologist at ZEFR and co-founder of Pipewave. He shares how he got started, the virtues of working with a co-founder, and why he loves the Boston tech scene: I grew up in Westchester, New […]

Since launching back in September, the past few months have flown by. In that short time, we’ve sat down with quite a few entrepreneurs working both within and outside of our community, many of which took part in our Do What You Love project — a series that showcases the entrepreneurs behind emerging companies. To […]

Benji Kayne, founder of kayneLIVE, has been an entrepreneur since he was a teenager. We sat down with him for this edition of Do What You Love — a series that showcases the individuals behind startups and small businesses. Here’s what he shared: I’m from Columbus, Ohio. At [age] 16 I bought a small mobile […]