Victor Gutwein was in middle school when he launched his first startup in his hometown in northwestern Indiana. “I wanted to be able to earn money,” he says, “so I decided to put bubblegum machines all over town.” Gutwein says it taught him a lot about running a business—everything from generating more sales to managing […]

Russell Tuchman says he learned everything he knows about business from his father. It’s the kind of bold statement you might expect from a 27-year-old entrepreneur who’s already hard at work on his second startup. The first came not long after he graduated from the University of California Santa Barbara and went to work for […]

For London-based entrepreneurs, Matthew de la Hey and Alex Hanson-Smith, there have been a couple of turning points that proved they were on the right track. The first came a few months after they came up with the idea for inploi, a platform connecting employers and staffers in the hospitality industry. “Both of us are incredibly […]

Growing up the middle of five children in Western Massachusetts, Brendan Ciecko didn’t spend his early years going to museums. Nor does he have a formal education in art. Ciecko, whose Boston-based company Cuseum connects museumgoers through technology, says his unique perspective comes from his background as a self-taught technologist and entrepreneur. “I started to design and […]

When special education teacher Aviva Rosman decided to run for local school counsel in Chicago, she called Alex Niemczewski to ask for her support. Her friend, who had always considered herself a well-informed voter, was caught off guard by the upcoming midterm elections. “I didn’t even know there was an election going on,” she recalls. […]