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December 5, 2017 December 5, 2017

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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

December 4, 2017 December 4, 2017

Four ways to be a better founder: takeaways from London Creator Camp

This past weekend, those who won big at the regional Creator Awards competitions in London, Berlin, Tel Aviv, and New York—47 finalists representing 34 companies—gathered in London for a Creator Camp of their own. The intensive was chock-full of inspiring workshops, coaching, networking, pitching, and even a surprise ride on a vintage double-decker bus to […]

By Lia Zneimer

November 28, 2017 November 28, 2017

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Langston League remixes pop culture into teaching moments

When founder Erica Buddington heard her class singing Cardi B’s “Bodak Yellow,” she saw a teaching moment

By Bridget Riley

November 26, 2017 November 26, 2017

Five tasks every savvy entrepreneur should automate

Who wants to free up time and energy to focus on higher-priority tasks? Everyone, right?! What could you get done if you were able to free up a few extra hours every week? Get ready to put those projects on your to-do list, once you automate the following five tasks: 1. Consolidate web logins If […]

By Sujan Patel

November 17, 2017 November 17, 2017

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Let’s hear it for New York City: Hometown heroes win at Creator Awards

“How many New Yorkers do we have here tonight?” Georges Clement of Justfix.NYC said from the stage at the New York City Creator Awards as the crowd cheered wildly. “And how many of you have had a terrible landlord?” he asked, eliciting an even more thunderous response. Raised in Morningside Heights in Manhattan, Clement worked his […]

By Bridget Riley

November 16, 2017 November 16, 2017

Be fearlessly weird: four takeaways from the N.Y.C. Creator Awards

“You have to be prepared to fail,” said Joey Wölffer, founder of The Styleliner. “I actually feel if people had told me how much it would hurt, I probably wouldn’t have done it.” Wölffer was speaking to a standing-room-only crowd at the New York Creator Awards on November 16. She and three other successful business owners […]

By Mark Sullivan

November 15, 2017 November 15, 2017

How to get paid when a client disappears

What to do when a client ghosts you and doesn’t pay

Running a small business has its perks—the freedom to work from wherever you want, choose your own hours, and focus on work that you really love. But, of course, the good comes with the not-so-good. And one of the downsides of freelancing or starting a business is the risk that your clients won’t pay you […]

By Christina Majaski

November 15, 2017 November 15, 2017

QueenB’s hive of Israeli girl coders

Israel is home to thousands of startups and software companies changing the way we live today and tomorrow, and yet, points out Noga Mann, cofounder of QueenB, women don’t make up an equal share of the developers in these companies. “We feel that the loss here is double: for the industry that has a shortage […]

By Dana Kessler

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