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In a crowded field, dating apps are looking for love

Platforms are finding ways to distinguish themselves from the competition

Thanksgiving dishes so good you’ll skip the turkey

WeWork members who know a thing or two about food share their favorite holiday vegetarian or vegan recipes

Ashton Kutcher and Tim Ferriss tell how to pitch your company

Original ideas, solid business plans, and a strong social good aspect are key for judges at WeWork’s Creator Awards

B12’s robots build your perfect website

In just 60 seconds, this company can make a personalized website

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 […]

Conservation guide steers volunteers to projects around the world

Justin Lennon has worked for conservation projects all over the world: Costa Rica, Tanzania, and Madagascar, to name a few. He saw firsthand how difficult it is for people wanting to do good in the world to find worthwhile projects. So he created Conservation Guide, a website that lets volunteers scope out great opportunities abroad. […]

Rolling out a walker that can hit the trails

A teenager from a small village in Wales approached engineering students Andrew Morgan and Kit Hughes with a problem. He had cerebral palsy, and his old-fashioned walker didn’t let him get around easily. So the friends at the University of Sheffield came up with a prototype for the “world’s first truly off-road posterior walking aid.” […]

Fat Macy’s cooks up jobs for shelter residents

A year and a half ago, Meg Doherty volunteered for a men’s homeless shelter in North London. The accommodations were supposed to be temporary, but Doherty says everyone she met expected to be there for years. The problem was that they couldn’t make enough money to get a place of their own. “Then one day […]

Meet your new trainer: Hard Yard employs ex-offenders

“I studied law, but I knew early on I didn’t [want to be] a solicitor or a barrister,” says London-based entrepreneur Frankie Bennett. “I was much more interested in what happened to people after they leave the criminal justice system.” They were often coming out of prison with few skills, making it nearly impossible to […]

Turning coffee grounds into a high-octane business

Tom Bage says the past few days have been unbelievably busy—a good kind of busy. One day he was doing an on-camera interview about bio-bean, the clean technology company where he serves as head of marketing and communication. The next, he was pitching his company at the London Creator Awards, where he convinced the judges […]

Simprints proves engineers are creatives, too

When Alexandra Grigore stepped out onto the stage at the London Creator Awards, she couldn’t have been more nervous. Winning was crucial to her nonprofit Simprints, which works to improve healthcare in developing nations. “It was pretty incredible,” says Grigore, the organization’s lead product manager. “When I heard people cheering, all the nervousness went away. […]

Tiny beetle inspires researchers to solve world’s water crisis

A tiny insect inspired four graduate students at London’s Imperial College to try to solve the global demand for water. “There are animals, such as the fogstand beetle in Africa, that can draw water directly from the atmosphere,” says Jonathan Risley, CEO of ThinAirWater. “We thought: ‘If animals can do it, why can’t humans do […]

Chatterbox unlocks the world for refugees through language

Mursal Hedayat was three years old when she, her older sister, and her mother had to flee war-torn Afghanistan in 1994. Her mother, a civil engineer, hoped to continue her work when they arrived in the U.K. But like many refugees, her education and experience weren’t enough. “It was like she left behind her professional […]

Androdes wants to be your sci-fi dance party hero

Helen Sartory is living a double life. By day she’s a self-proclaimed “tech nerd” immersed in the startup world. By night she’s a—well, it’s a little hard to explain. She transforms herself into an android who uses a glowing crystal equipped with touch sensors and other space-age devices to create electronic dance music. And at […]

At London Creator Awards, winners vow to ‘change the world’

The celebrating began long before the London Creator Awards were over. About two-thirds of the way through, Eliza Rutherford and Anna Gross literally started dancing in the aisle. They were soon joined by a huge crowd that didn’t disperse for the rest of the evening. Best friends back at Oxford University, Rutherford and Gross didn’t […]

Mathieu Ajan helps creatives turn their passion into their profession

“Working in your socks and boxers,” says entrepreneur Mathieu Ajan. “That’s the life for a lot of creatives.” There’s something enticing, he says, about not going into an office, being your own boss, and setting your own hours. But it also means that there are no colleagues around to advise you, no mentors to take […]

At Project Access, making sure everyone can get to university

Anna Gross had no plans to attend Oxford University. But a chance meeting with a fellow student convinced her that she should follow her dream of studying history. “I told her that I was going to study law, which was the safe choice,” says Gross. “But she heard me talk about history and could clearly […]

At WeWork, connecting people touched by cancer

Emily Keeton says that once you are diagnosed with cancer, you’re suddenly part of a community. At first you need a shoulder to lean on. Later on, you’re the one supporting others. “I still get calls every few weeks,” says Keeton, a breast cancer survivor. “They need someone to refer them to doctors, tell them […]

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