People don’t often compare the worlds of the military and the runway, but maybe they should. Both are fields where discipline and drama run high, after all. For April Story, co-founder of Tailor Made Me, the two are inseparable. As a military veteran, she uses her training to help manage Tailor Made Me, which focuses […]

All throughout Leith Hill’s life, she has been surrounded by unique food. She grew up in New Orleans, the city Mark Twain once said has food “as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.” But Hill is no sinner. Hill’s father made sure that she grew up with not just food, but a philosophy. […]

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 […]

Garth Holsinger specializes in connections, the type that don’t get made every day. The cultural canyon between the traditional brick-and-mortar and the startup world is vast, so Holsinger and his Big Brand Week team are bridging those two worlds through a series of events. And between the resources of larger businesses and the hunger of […]

Adam Brown is a specialist in what might be considered one of the hardest writing styles imaginable: a relatable human being on social media. As the founder of social media strategy firm Sircle, Brown told Creator that one of his favorite parts of his job is getting “to play entrepreneur on various projects daily.” Below, […]

The media business is in trouble, and that’s a fact. The American Society of News Editors released the dour news that in traditional newsrooms, “job losses accelerated in 2014, falling by more than 10 percent in a single year.” The forecast is just as bad for 2015, with “additional losses clearly taking place so far.” […]

“Throwing a good party, mixing a great drink—that’s cool,” entrepreneur David Pierre-Louis says. “But I’m bigger than that.” Take LUCID, his “creative space” in Seattle. It’s not quite a dedicated show venue, not quite a bar, but the best of both. A look at the upcoming events showcase its diversity: there’s a soul concert, then […]

It was a family struggle that led the Gardiner family to create a truly memorable crowdfunding video, and an equally remarkable wearable product. A few years ago, Eric Gardiner, the family’s patriarch, was diagnosed with leukemia. His powerful story leads off a video on the Indiegogo campaign page for their soon-to-be-launched product called PureWrist. “I’ve […]

Tim Philosophos and Kevin Silverman take every aspect of their company, Falcon Capital Management, very seriously. First, there’s the Capital Management aspect of things: they invest in smaller companies, referred to as small-cap and mid-cap investments. They’re damn good at it, too, having worked in market investment for more than 30 years each. Then they […]