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

What to do when a client ghosts you and doesn’t pay

Running a small business has its perks—the freedom to work from wherever you want, choose your own hours, and focus on work that you really love. But, of course, the good comes with the not-so-good. And one of the downsides of freelancing or starting a business is the risk that your clients won’t pay you […]

By Christina Majaski

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

Member Spotlight

Parentrepreneur keeps Kwaddle growing

When Deven Hariyani was a kid in sunny California, he dove into all things extracurricular: soccer games, karate lessons, drawing classes, baseball practices, Cub Scouts meetings. He never imagined that one day he’d be running the successful startup Kwaddle, which makes it easy for parents to browse and register kids for camps and other activities […]

By Alice Murray

November 7, 2017 November 7, 2017

Grasshoppers are the new sushi, says Hargol FoodTech

“The first time I tasted grasshoppers was also the first time I ever touched one,” remembers Dror Tamir, cofounder and CEO of Hargol FoodTech—the world’s first commercial grasshopper farmer. “It was at a tasting event we held three years ago with representatives from Uganda and Japan. A CNN crew filmed the event, so I tried […]

By Dana Kessler

November 6, 2017 November 6, 2017

Six apps to get your emails read

Around 91 percent of adults in the U.S. say that they actually enjoy receiving emails from companies they already do business with. Email can add credibility to your business because it gives people the chance to get to know you and your brand better. While your audience is likely wary of automated marketing messages, there […]

By Kayla Matthews

October 27, 2017 October 27, 2017

Confetti, grasshoppers, and why Tel Aviv is the heart of ‘Startup Nation’

“Let’s throw inspiration around like it’s confetti!” read the gigantic poster, the last message people took in before heading home after a surprising night at the Tel Aviv Creator Awards. An hour earlier, confetti had rained on all of our heads as Dror Tamir bagged the grand prize in the Scale category, for—get this—growing grasshoppers. […]

By Dana Kessler

October 26, 2017 October 26, 2017

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A former NASA employee and her trash-eating 3D printer

If you had to describe Samantha Snabes in one word, it would have to be “ambitious.” She’s a trained EMT, volunteer firefighter, captain of the Mississippi Air National Guard, ex-NASA strategist, and founder of re:3D, a Houston and Austin-based company that’s making the world’s largest affordable 3D printer. But there’s no slowing Snabes down. She’s […]

By Alice Murray