January 16, 2018 January 16, 2018 Honey, I shrunk the glucose sensor Muhammad Mujeeb-U-Rahman is making a revolutionary sensor for diabetics that can be implanted inside the body By Bridget Riley Innovation Creator
January 15, 2018 January 15, 2018 Meet Brllnt, the agency behind D.C.’s Amazon HQ2 campaign Creative agency Brllnt, a WeWork member, put together D.C.’s pitch for Amazon HQ2 in only two days By Bridget Riley Creativity Productivity
January 9, 2018 January 9, 2018 Meet the first-ever Creator Awards Global finalists Creators include a 3D printing startup, a company making communication devices for people with ALS, and others By Bridget Riley Impact Innovation Small Businesses Entrepreneurs
January 8, 2018 January 8, 2018 B12’s robots build your perfect website In just 60 seconds, this company can make a personalized website By Mark Sullivan Innovation
January 3, 2018 January 3, 2018 Once upon a leather jacket, Laurén Bienvenue found her calling The entrepreneur turned a project—reviving an old leather jacket with a new painted design—into a career By Bridget Riley Small Businesses Creativity Entrepreneurs
December 19, 2017 December 19, 2017 Rachel Sumekh works to swipe out hunger on college campuses As an undergraduate at UCLA, then 18-year-old Rachel Sumekh saw that there were students on campus who couldn’t get enough to eat. “Students have enough insecurities,” she says. “We feel food shouldn’t be one of them.” To solve the issue, Sumekh started Swipe Out Hunger, which builds on the meal plan programs already operating on […] By Nikki Pepper Innovation Small Businesses Entrepreneurs
December 11, 2017 December 11, 2017 Cadus goes where no other mobile hospital dares While working out of mobile hospitals in Syria, Sebastian Jünemann and his team noticed a thistle-like plant called “Carduus” growing in the desert landscape. As medics working in a harsh environment, they had found their mascot. “We were like this plant,” Jünemann says. “We were there, where no other NGOs go.” They trimmed the name […] By Bridget Riley Impact Innovation Travel
December 5, 2017 December 5, 2017 With Oui Shave, Karen Young finds a sisterhood of female founders Next time you see someone in the subway lugging a bulky blue Ikea bag, they might be building their own beauty empire. That’s how it was for Karen Young in the early days of her company, Oui Shave. “I spent many days trucking my Ikea bag full of orders on the train and getting a […] By Bridget Riley Innovation Small Businesses Entrepreneurs