Lauren Wagner knew what she was looking for: a space where she could confer with colleagues, meet with potential partners, and network with the founders of startup companies. And Wagner, marketing director for a new app called OneRx, found it at WeWork. Launched last August, OneRx is the latest project of the quickly growing healthcare […]

Even if you’ve never heard the name, you’ve seen the work of Kotobukisun. The video for the Pharrell Williams song “It Girl,” inspired by the graphics of ’80s video games, was created by the Tokyo-based design company. And some handbags that will be swinging from the arms of models when Rebecca Minkoff announces her new […]

Scotch is a natural icebreaker. That’s the word from Greg Hayes, marketing analyst for the investment company OWLshares. “All-American mutt” is how Hayes describes Scotch, the adorable mixed breed dog he brings with him to work. “They wrote it into my job offer that I could bring my dog to work,” says Hayes. “So I brought […]

Blair Swiler wasn’t looking to start a company. He was working at a golf course in Naples, Florida, sharing some of his homemade beef jerky with one of his fellow caddies. His buddy Dennis Riedel knew that this smoked meat was head and shoulders above anything else on the market. So they went into business […]

Justin Kerzner wants to get one thing clear: he’s not a “belt guy.”  “I’m not a belt guy, I never was a belt guy,” says the 25-year-old entrepreneur. ”I used to take shoelaces and tie them around my waist like a belt.” So how did Kerzner end up launching his own designer leather goods company, […]

Although Jen Atkin is known for the list of trendsetting celebrities that consider her their must-have hairstylist—Jennifer Lopez, Sofía Vergara, Jessica Alba, Katy Perry, and just about every Kardashian in the book—that’s just part of what she does. The Los Angeles transplant is also a serial entrepreneur, having struck out on her own at a […]

Beating out hundreds of other competitors, the pair of young entrepreneurs behind Kent & Bond—the first organic men’s grooming brand—won a year of rent-free office space in New York City, courtesy of Hennessy and WeWork. The prize was part of the Hennessy V.S.O.P Privilège Lab competition, which wrapped up last month. Applicants were asked to […]

A lot of places take their coffee seriously — Seattle, for example, where Starbucks has opened a reserve blend tasting room, and Anchorage, which recently took the title of most caffeinated city in the U.S. But nowhere will you find a more coffee-obsessed population than Tel Aviv. Here it’s not just about the beverage itself, […]

When the founders of Tiggly first met with Sesame Street more than two years ago, they didn’t get the answer they wanted to hear. “That was back when we were more or less a new company,” says Bart Clareman, one of the three founders of the maker of interactive games for kids. “Here we were, […]

For a 9-year-old girl, Lily Lee seems incredibly busy. It’s not just the usual things, like doing flips in tumbling class, learning how to play the flute, and walking her dog named Lucky. For the second year in a row, the San Francisco fourth grader has been organizing a toy drive so that foster kids […]