Babacar Ndiaye recalls how daunting it was to get into a film school in Atlanta. With little more than a desire to “tell other people’s stories through a visual medium,” he applied to Georgia State University’s program for film, television, and digital production. The rejection that he received really stung. So he called the film […]

Chocolate aficionados, rejoice! We’ve found a place offering restaurant-quality desserts without the three-hour-long tasting menu and the hefty price tag that goes along with it. Are you a sucker for beautifully packaged sweets that don’t require flying to Paris or standing in line with tourists at Ladurée? Or are you just looking to upgrade your […]

The following is an excerpt from Julio Vincent Gambuto’s ebook Freelance Heaven: 100 Ways to Make Freelance Life Easier and Avoid Freelance Hell. Large companies pay consultants millions of dollars to define three things: their mission, vision, and values. I have seen the proposals and the bills. There are more PowerPoint presentations created on this […]

How often do you get to work at 9 AM feeling pumped and energized, only to crash at 2 PM post-lunch? Lots of people feel this way during the final hours of their workday—when productivity takes a dive, you can’t concentrate, and you find it hard to get yourself back on track. Fortunately, you can […]

You finally finished your novel, and all the literary agents who read it said it’s a “strong start.” But another year of wordsmithing doesn’t interest you. Or perhaps you wanted to learn to code, but realized it wasn’t at all a match for your core competencies. All that’s fine. But did you take a moment […]

Seattle’s Jared Mirsky is carving out an empire in a seriously niche arena. The 33-year-old entrepreneur’s company, Online Marijuana Design, provides marketing, advertising, and brand strategy services to—you guessed it—pot companies. It’s a brave new world for such things in the Pacific Northwest, where Oregon and Washington recently legalized recreational marijuana use. And here’s Mirsky, […]

Unlike every other major city in the country, Chicago doesn’t claim to be a “tech capital” just because it has a steady flow of deep-pocketed investors and a huge number of high-flying startups. Sure, it’s the home base for powerhouses like Groupon, GrubHub and SpotHero, and up-and-comers like Avant, Civis Analytics, Kapow, and Uptake. And […]

When Atlanta’s Julie Salisbury started her public relations firm in the late 1980s, she was one of the only female entrepreneurs in what was then a male-dominated field. Since then, says the founder of The Bee Colony, things have changed rapidly in Atlanta. The number of women running their own media-related firms has steadily increased. […]