December 11, 2017 December 11, 2017

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Cadus goes where no other mobile hospital dares

While working out of mobile hospitals in Syria, Sebastian Jünemann and his team noticed a thistle-like plant called “Carduus” growing in the desert landscape. As medics working in a harsh environment, they had found their mascot. “We were like this plant,” Jünemann says. “We were there, where no other NGOs go.” They trimmed the name […]

By Bridget Riley

December 5, 2017 December 5, 2017

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With Oui Shave, Karen Young finds a sisterhood of female founders

Next time you see someone in the subway lugging a bulky blue Ikea bag, they might be building their own beauty empire. That’s how it was for Karen Young in the early days of her company, Oui Shave. “I spent many days trucking my Ikea bag full of orders on the train and getting a […]

By Bridget Riley

November 28, 2017 November 28, 2017

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Langston League remixes pop culture into teaching moments

When founder Erica Buddington heard her class singing Cardi B’s “Bodak Yellow,” she saw a teaching moment

By Bridget Riley

November 22, 2017 November 22, 2017

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WeWork Korea serves up meals for 2,000 seniors

Employees, members join forces to support elderly residents of Seoul

By Mark Sullivan

November 17, 2017 November 17, 2017

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Let’s hear it for New York City: Hometown heroes win at Creator Awards

“How many New Yorkers do we have here tonight?” Georges Clement of Justfix.NYC said from the stage at the New York City Creator Awards as the crowd cheered wildly. “And how many of you have had a terrible landlord?” he asked, eliciting an even more thunderous response. Raised in Morningside Heights in Manhattan, Clement worked his […]

By Bridget Riley

November 16, 2017 November 16, 2017

Be fearlessly weird: four takeaways from the N.Y.C. Creator Awards

“You have to be prepared to fail,” said Joey Wölffer, founder of The Styleliner. “I actually feel if people had told me how much it would hurt, I probably wouldn’t have done it.” Wölffer was speaking to a standing-room-only crowd at the New York Creator Awards on November 16. She and three other successful business owners […]

By Mark Sullivan

November 15, 2017 November 15, 2017

QueenB’s hive of Israeli girl coders

Israel is home to thousands of startups and software companies changing the way we live today and tomorrow, and yet, points out Noga Mann, cofounder of QueenB, women don’t make up an equal share of the developers in these companies. “We feel that the loss here is double: for the industry that has a shortage […]

By Dana Kessler

November 14, 2017 November 14, 2017

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We are founders, we are women, we are immigrants

Read excerpts from the ‘American Immigrant Project: Women’s Edition,’ which spotlights immigrants’ stories

By Katarina Kojic