Just about every new company has been there: you need funds, but the bank says no to a loan. What are some alternative ways to raise money? Rachel Hersh, Northeast region sales director of Prestige Capital, says there are several good options. In the lending business for two decades, Hersh says there are three common […]

Although Jen Atkin is known for the list of trendsetting celebrities that consider her their must-have hairstylist—Jennifer Lopez, Sofía Vergara, Jessica Alba, Katy Perry, and just about every Kardashian in the book—that’s just part of what she does. The Los Angeles transplant is also a serial entrepreneur, having struck out on her own at a […]

My passion is coffee. I love the taste, the different ways to brew and drink it, and especially the community that comes with it. I have met some very interesting and cool people through my love of coffee. Us coffee folk like to geek out on the talk. My sister feels exactly the same way, […]

Rami Even-Esh, perhaps best known by the name Kosha Dillz, is WeWork Hollywood’s resident hip-hop head. His busy schedule keeps him touring both coasts and everywhere in-between, sharing stages with everybody from Nas to Matisyahu. As WeWork’s only full-time rapper, Rami brings a unique perspective to the community. You can read all about his favorite projects, trilingual […]

They say print is a dying industry—but not if the creators of the Bookselves app have anything to do with it. When bookstores in Berkeley began shutting down a few years ago, principal co-founders Tanuja Mishra and Yash Mahendra—both of whom have backgrounds in technology and design—lamented about the shortage of meeting places to share […]

Daniel Heller didn’t start out with a business plan—he just wanted to hang out with other gay people without having to head to downtown Boston. “Living in Cambridge, I found I had to travel two or three miles to socialize with other members of the community,” says Heller. “And it was a different neighborhood with […]

Two years before Eddie Nuvakhov and David Levy founded LNC Productions, they were college buddies about to spend spring break in Jamaica. At the time, Levy had been given an open-ended film class assignment, so he decided to film a documentary about the trip—and Nuvakhov quickly fell into the producer role. Their smirks are audible […]