When Kickstarter launched in 2009, the idea of crowdfunding was in its most basic stages. The term had entered the lexicon around three years earlier, but Kickstarter took the concept to the next level. And even though not all of the five most successful crowdfunding projects of all time were launched on Kickstarter, they all […]

Your typical entrepreneurial library—physical or digital—is crowded with books by business luminaries, and full of advice on investment, marketing, hiring, and the like. There is, indisputably, good reason for this: these texts teach concrete, technical strategies that quantifiably boost growth. The utility of philosophical wisdom, on the other hand, is harder to pin down. Abstract […]

Growing up in Los Angeles, Libby Slate established herself as an entertainment reporter at a young age. “When I was a little girl, my family shared a duplex with an actress who had a lot of famous friends who visited,” says the writer, who has done freelance work for publications ranging from TV Guide to the Los […]

Johnson Joseph’s journey at WeWork began with a single tweet. The personal trainer was looking for an internship one summer and, on a whim, tweeted back at WeWork when it published a post calling for resumes. This was more than three years ago. The WeWork veteran is now a beloved Community Manager at the Soho […]

One night in spring 2014, I sat on the floor, scanning the spines of books housed on a petite bookshelf in a spare, but very well-appointed one-bedroom apartment in Manhattan. The apartment belonged to the business developer I’d recently begun seeing, who I admired for his high-functioning lifestyle. He rose at 5:30 every day to […]

If you think DJ John Hamilton seems cool and composed, just wait for his tracks to drop. Drawing inspiration from an eclectic array of genres, the DJ and producer bends boundaries with his music. Hamilton is an aural architect, every song transporting listeners to a different time, place, and emotion. Coming from a musical family, […]

Carla Hacken isn’t just a film producer. She’s also an entrepreneur. As I interviewed the production president of Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, I learned that much of what she does launching a new movie crosses over to starting a business. Some background about Hacken: She began her career as a talent agent for International Creative Management. […]

When Ellen He looks around the classroom, she’s reminded how far women still have to go. As a female MBA candidate at Washington University in St. Louis, she’s in the minority. Barely a quarter of her fellow students at Olin Business School are women—a statistic on par with other top U.S. programs. “This country used […]