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The pure joy of finally finishing a marathon

There were miles I didn’t think I would finish. Miles where embarrassment and fatigue crawled into my joints and my blisters, telling me “better luck next time.” It was during these miles I put on the original Broadway cast recording of Wicked for the second and third time and reminded myself who I was. I […]
Branding Your Pot Startup? Get to Know This Seattle Guy
Branding your pot startup? Get to know this Seattle entrepreneur

Seattle’s Jared Mirsky is carving out an empire in a seriously niche arena. The 33-year-old entrepreneur’s company, Online Marijuana Design, provides marketing, advertising, and brand strategy services to—you guessed it—pot companies. It’s a brave new world for such things in the Pacific Northwest, where Oregon and Washington recently legalized recreational marijuana use. And here’s Mirsky, […]
From real estate to ranching: One man’s journey through the beef biz

It’s like the plot of a ‘90s comedy: a businessman buys a farm in the middle of nowhere as a real estate investment and unwittingly finds himself transformed into a full-time rancher and beef producer. But for Jeff Russell, member of WeWork Union Station in Denver, this is real life. Or something close to it. Russell is […]
Which Chicago neighborhoods are best for startups?

Unlike every other major city in the country, Chicago doesn’t claim to be a “tech capital” just because it has a steady flow of deep-pocketed investors and a huge number of high-flying startups. Sure, it’s the home base for powerhouses like Groupon, GrubHub and SpotHero, and up-and-comers like Avant, Civis Analytics, Kapow, and Uptake. And […]
Delivering cutting-edge research from the lab to your phone

How do you define someone who successfully swapped a career in journalism for a career in science, only to emerge as a thriving entrepreneur? Well, for Raremark’s founder Julie Walters, it’s easy: she always was and always will be a “problem-solver.” She believes that there is always “a better way,” and finding that solution, whether […]
At Recliner, a fashion veteran creates sleepwear you could wear all day

Shopping for sleepwear, Rebecca Smith discovered that her options were a little limited. If she wanted something sexy, she could get that at Victoria’s Secret. But there wasn’t an obvious option for sleepwear that was fashionable and well designed, but not all about being sexy. In short, she wanted something that she could wear lounging […]
Women-owned businesses make big strides in Atlanta

When Atlanta’s Julie Salisbury started her public relations firm in the late 1980s, she was one of the only female entrepreneurs in what was then a male-dominated field. Since then, says the founder of The Bee Colony, things have changed rapidly in Atlanta. The number of women running their own media-related firms has steadily increased. […]
Seven essential podcasts when you’re launching a business

You’re a busy person. In between working your full-time day job, completing your responsibilities at home, and formulating your new business plan, you have a lot going on. While you know that reading up on how to start a company, taking night classes, and meeting with entrepreneurs to ask them how they did it is […]
What the heck is ‘bleisure’ travel, and how can you do it?

 Bleisure: It’s the Kimye of the business travel world. The marriage of business travel with leisure time is one of travel’s biggest trends these days (and one of its most unfortunate terms). Put simply, “bleisure” travelers take advantage of a meeting or work event in another destination, and carve out some non-working time to enjoy […]
When doing good is also good for business

 The following is an excerpt from Derrick Feldmann’s latest book, Social Movements for Good: How Companies and Causes Create Viral Change. What is the role of business today? The historical answer to this question was quite simple: Develop a strong business, find great people, create great products, and build profit. This equation for success was […]