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. […]

You’re a busy person. In between working your full-time day job, completing your responsibilities at home, and formulating your new business plan, you have a lot going on. While you know that reading up on how to start a company, taking night classes, and meeting with entrepreneurs to ask them how they did it is […]

 Bleisure: It’s the Kimye of the business travel world. The marriage of business travel with leisure time is one of travel’s biggest trends these days (and one of its most unfortunate terms). Put simply, “bleisure” travelers take advantage of a meeting or work event in another destination, and carve out some non-working time to enjoy […]

 The following is an excerpt from Derrick Feldmann’s latest book, Social Movements for Good: How Companies and Causes Create Viral Change. What is the role of business today? The historical answer to this question was quite simple: Develop a strong business, find great people, create great products, and build profit. This equation for success was […]