While on a weekend trip to New York, Amanda Collins bought a pair of Christian Louboutin heels at a boutique in the Meatpacking District. When she wore them the next day, the entire red sole of her new designer shoes fell off. She went back to get them repaired. The shop’s only solution? Red spray […]

For Yasir Khokhar, it all started with the thought What are the cows thinking? One day in Holland, he recalls, “I was staring outside my window, looking at the grazing cows and wondered, ‘What are they thinking?’ It was one of those insignificant thoughts that turned into an eureka moment. That’s when the plan emerged.” […]

The Downtown United Soccer Club was a nomadic bunch for a while. Without a permanent home, the group that organizes soccer teams in and around New York City would get together on the field after a match or head to the nearest pub or coffee shop. And for staff meetings? “We met weekly at Mr. […]

You may not realize it, but you’ve actually been using a wearable device every day for years now: your smartphone. It fits conveniently in your pocket and becomes an extension of you for every waking hour. Basically, it’s a supercomputer packed with sensors, always on and always connected, with a massive ecosystem of helpful apps. […]

Work demands always kept long-term best friends Sarah DeMarco and Nickole Raymond traveling. So the music executive and sports agent maintained their friendship by meeting up in between work destinations. “We used to meet up in airport lounges for lunch and commiserate over the lack of products for women who travel a lot,” says Raymond. […]

If opera lovers were expecting the usual grand theater, they got a shock when they traveled to Bushwick for a performance by LoftOpera. “To get there, audience members had to walk along a badly lit street where the sidewalk had ended,” recalls Brianna Maury. “And they were thinking, ‘Is there really opera here?’ Then they […]

Dan Heyman and Jess Perez each run their own app startup. They’re also a couple. As two entrepreneurs living under one roof, they use their relationship to their advantage, helping each other’s startup grow. Both Heyman and Perez came from backgrounds that, in hindsight, were clear paths to entrepreneurship. Heyman graduated from Columbia, studied at […]

For Gabrielle Ducomble, the mark of success is not the sound of screaming fans, but absolute silence. “You can feel it—the energy in the room,” she says. “When the audience is completely silent, you know they are really with you.” With the undivided attention of a jam-packed studio, this Belgian-born singer rewrites the Parisian jazz […]