Jimmy Pinto wasn’t even thinking about starting his own business when his second watch in six months stopped ticking. I basically came up with the idea for the company because another one of my watches broke on me,” says Pinto, founder of Broome & Mercer. “I said ‘Screw this, I’m going to create my own […]

When she was younger, Julia Gardner and her sister would record commercials on a Sony Boombox and reenact them for their parents. It was clear that she had caught the advertising bug early on. Gardner pursued a career in marketing, working in client services for major companies in Canada. She eventually found her way to […]

Telling your company’s story might sound easy, but it’s something that many small businesses find a struggle. Konstantinos Papakonstantinou, who founded Board Studios, is on a mission to help companies simplify their message and explain exactly what they do. With an Ivy League education and a lengthy career in finance, Papakonstantinou helps companies by producing […]

Small businesses used to be small, but then things started getting super-sized. Suddenly the skills you learned are outdated and the rules that once dominated the workplace no longer apply. The Startup Institute isn’t just a guide to this new landscape, it immerses you in it before you have to step into the real world. […]

One of the liveliest members at WeWork Fulton Center in New York City, Sol Weinreich is constantly on the move. The cheerful, bespectacled entrepreneur says he is always thinking about ways to improve the beta version of MINR, his smart news aggregator that creates personalized recommendations based on each user’s interests. Weinreich chatted with WeWork […]

If there’s one thing that Jeff Sheely and his team at WeWork Wonder Bread Factory have down pat, it’s how to send happiness. As cofounder of the D.C.- and New York-based startup UrbanStems, he uses his marketing skills and his co-founder Ajay Kori’s business mindset to create an on-demand flower delivery service. “Our mission can […]

After traveling across Southeast Asia, New Jersey native Maggie Doyne was inspired by a young Nepalese girl who had been separated from her family because of civil war. Nine years later, Doyne helped found the Kopila Valley School in western Nepal, bringing better access to education to scores of children. Helping to make it possible was […]

People are making cash on Airbnb by renting out their rooms. They’re lending their cars to strangers for some extra dough through Turo. Now Mark Abramowicz and Braden Golub are giving people yet another way to profit from stuff they’re not using at the moment. Abramowicz and Golub are the co-founders of Spot, an app that lets […]