From an early age, Minal Mehta loved activities where everyone moved in perfect unison. She performed at Indian folk and Bollywood dance competitions and even choreographed moves for her synchronized swim team. That’s one of the reasons Mehta became the co-founder and president of BollyX, a Bollywood-inspired high-intensity workout program. She’s finally been able to […]

While tossing around ideas when they worked together at Johnson & Johnson, Matt Hornbuckle and Kirk Keel would often complain about how their dress shirts hardly ever fit right. Hornbuckle recalls that for him the breaking point came while he was on a date. “She jokingly called out the shirt I was wearing for being […]

It’s been five months since your last haircut, and everyone in the office can tell, but you don’t want to go through the hassle of ringing up the only place you know on the other side of the city to check for appointment openings. Giorgia Rossi knows your struggle. When working at McKinsey and Co., […]

“Total destruction of the media is the goal,” says Erin Bagwell, in a just-kidding-but-seriously fashion. The WeWork Charging Bull member has many defining qualities, but reticence is not one of them. She is fiercely independent, endlessly passionate, a skilled producer, and the creative force behind Dream, Girl, a feature-length documentary charting the lives of female […]

Tim Philosophos and Kevin Silverman take every aspect of their company, Falcon Capital Management, very seriously. First, there’s the Capital Management aspect of things: they invest in smaller companies, referred to as small-cap and mid-cap investments. They’re damn good at it, too, having worked in market investment for more than 30 years each. Then they […]

Ankur Nagpal and Conrad Wadowski discovered that there’s a pack of people out there who are not traditional entrepreneurs. The co-founders of Fedora have dubbed them “teacher entrepreneurs” because they are willing to share their wisdom with others. So where do these teacher entrepreneurs teach? Fedora: a platform for online courses where anybody can teach […]

With 7 billion people in the world and counting, it would seem that all it takes to snag a devoted following is to cast a wide net. And with so many things going viral these days, expanding your user base should be a piece of cake. The reality for many mobile applications; however, is that […]

It’s a common saying that some of the most successful entrepreneurs are usually early risers. And when you’re running a business, it may seem like there are never enough hours to get work done. In this series First Hour, we explore the morning side of creators and how they set themselves up for a productive […]