Changing Your Business Model Entrepreneur Robert Reffkin knows what it’s like to turn around a business that’s in dire straits. With Compass, he had to help guide the company through several changes of direction and a couple of high-profile lawsuits. After Compass launched in 2013, Reffkin and the New York-based real estate platform’s team decided […]

On Mindy Seegal Abovitz’s 21st birthday, her best friend left a trail of small gifts throughout her A-frame home in Gainesville, Florida: a sweater from a nearby thrift store, then “some sort of weird, raw cookie” that Stephanie, better known as “Scoot,” had been making at the time. At the end of the trail were […]

A screenwriting career is sought out by many, but actually acquired by few. The closest that most aspiring screenwriters get to working in Hollywood is tapping away on their laptops at The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf on Sunset Boulevard. But if you have the drive, passion, and talent, you have a shot at seeing […]

It’s a hectic morning: you’re scheduling meetings with investors, emailing the new marketing assistant, and trying to figure out how to improve the way you run your business. But are you also taking the time to learn new things, so that you can recharge and grow? Before you say, “I don’t have time for that,” consider […]

4 Best Photo Editing Apps Our phones are, as Nikola Tesla predicted, tiny computers in our pockets. We can do almost anything with them, not least of all edit photos, make GIFs, and create beautiful typographic images. Here are four apps that will allow you to create virtually any kind of image with just the […]

Three and a half years ago, Matt Dickinson had what most people would consider a dream job at a major commercial real estate firm. But his own dream didn’t look like that at all. “It was all about trying to find my happy place,” says Dickinson. “At 27, I was living a life that looked […]

“I don’t want to give you the impression I worry about money all the time. It’s probably only several hundred times a day.” So admits Paul Downs, in his new book, Boss Life: Surviving My Own Small Business. This book is gloriously free of those omnipresent self-congratulatory gurus who write most business books—the types who […]

Talented employees are a terrible thing to waste. While it may seem like you’re keeping them engaged with a litany of tasks and responsibilities, there’s another force that you have to combat: monotony. Your employees will be content if their job interests them. A study by The Conference Board finds that 59 percent of employees […]