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For producer Carla Hacken, every film is like launching a business

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. […]

Begroupd: the app that makes group messaging a breeze

Growing up in a family of entrepreneurs, it’s no surprise that Lindsey Cummins is full of great ideas. But it wasn’t until a doomed trip to Fire Island—and a partnership with a Kardashian—that she struck gold. Shortly before graduating from Cornell, Cummins tried to plan a celebratory outing to Fire Island with her college girlfriends. […]

Three innovative programs for female grad students

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 […]

‘Yarn Bomber’ London Kaye covers the city with color

Sitting still is difficult for artist London Kaye. When we met for coffee, I noticed her furiously crocheting away, creating a six-tiered wedding cake made out of white yarn that resembled creamy frosting. From within, a rainbow seemed to be spilling out. “People will look at me and ask what I’m making,” says Kaye. “Most […]

Five ways to steal time as a small business owner

As a small business owner, chances are you are juggling more than your fair share of duties. Nothing passes by your desk without you seeing it first. Nothing gets completed without your approval. And nothing can move without you pushing it. Every day, the clock strikes five, and you realize you are no closer than […]

Five hard lessons from ‘Straight Outta Compton’

There’s a deafening hype surrounding F. Gary Gray’s Straight Outta Compton, a film depicting the short-lived but high-flying career of the rap group N.W.A in the late ’80s and early ’90s. It comes toward the end of a summer filled with music movies: Love and Mercy, about Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys, Amy, on […]

A pair of ‘move advocates’ makes relocating no big deal

From an early age, Moné McLucas knew that she had good people skills. “My mom calls me a social butterfly,” she says with a smile. “We knew when I was pretty young that I wouldn’t have a problem interacting and engaging with people—that’s one of my gifts.” For her current job, that personality type comes […]

Look and feel: How good design makes better business

Big business has been hungry. Not for money per se, but for good design. Lately, there have been unprecedented power plays made by corporates seeking to gobble up top design firms: Google and Gecko Design Inc., Facebook and Teehan+Lax, and CapitalOne and Adaptive Path, to name a few. In my two decades of working with […]

Four unexpected places to hold your next meeting

How many times have you heard (or said), “Let’s meet at the coffee shop?” But then you get there, and finding open seats together takes 10 minutes. Or there’s a grinder overpowering any conversation you’re trying to have. Or someone’s having a distractingly personal discussion nearby. Finding a good, productive meeting space can be a […]

WeWork Labs success story: How HackHands’s joined Pluralsight

Geraldo Ramos, Assis Silva, and Forest Good knew it was coming. An executive from Pluralsight confirmed what they had suspected for months: that company wanted to acquire their startup Hackhands. It “was pretty clear they wanted to buy us from our first conversation,” Good remembers. When they mulled over the offer, Ramos and Good agreed that […]

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