Search

From the outside looking in, Nico Tortorella doesn't seem all that different from the straight cisgender character he plays on the sweetly addictive hit comedy Younger, which had its fourth [...]

A VIVACIOUS OVERHAUL OF ENTREPRENEUR BAILEY McCARTHY'S TEXAS HOME 1. Hard lessons from a two-year mega reno 2. How to integrate a 1960s addition into a historic home 3. The [...]

Allegedly, Blake Mycoskie, founder of TOMS, celebrated turning 40 this year. Objectively, it doesn't sound like there was time. When we meet at Malibu's One Gun Ranch, where he's dropped [...]

Nicolas Palazzi and Alexander Rainer are walking in the cloud-shrouded Tyrolean Alps, somewhere above Innsbruck, Austria. The sun is setting; the cool air, scented with moss and barnyard. Cowbells ring, [...]

WHAT STARTED as a one-woman, kitchen-based company back in 2009 has grown into a beloved pattern line known for its classic shapes and vintage details yet decidedly wearable styles for [...]

In just 12 years, Mark Zuckerberg built an empire of 1.71 billion followers. His goal: to friend the rest of humanity. DOWN THE HALL FROM MARK ZUCKERBERG'S DESK SITS A [...]

Drew Barrymore has blossomed from a child star into a fearless entrepreneur, film producer and happy mom. Who doesn't love it when a nice girl finishes first? The offices of [...]

Elizabeth Townsend Gard was researching British literature when it became clear that she would have to learn something about copyrights. It was 1994, and Gard was trying to start her [...]

TURN DOWN SKYWALKER WAY, then make a left on Warp Drive. A hangarlike facility is there, huge, as a hangar should be. Inside, a tall mustachioed gentleman in a baggy [...]

Sara Blakely was just rushed to the hospital. She's scheduled for an emergency appendectomy when a nurse glances at her chart and suddenly lifts her uniform, brazenly revealing her undergarments. [...]

Is Bulletproof Coffee creator Dave Asprey--the world's most famous 'biohacker'--leading a mass healthy revolution based on self-experimentation, or is he simply endangering himself, one health risk at a time? Welcome [...]

Jennifer Paganelli and Carla Crim work in time machines, not studios. Paganelli, founder of the Sis Boom pattern and fabric collection, transports herself to the sunny Caribbean of her childhood [...]

It took a whole team to build a 3-D portrait of Bre Pettis. Artist Sophie Kahn scanned his head. Then, MakerBot designers Nathan Worth, Lane Feuer, and Anne Miner cleaned [...]

Veronica Chou is part of one of China's most famous fashion families. Now she's stepping out on her own. When I first meet Veronica Chou at her billionaire father, Silas [...]

Like a guided arrow tracking an improbable target, luck follows the intrepid entrepreneur, public servant, and board maven Linda Griego as she pursues her curiosity across the country, around the [...]

As well as being one of the world's best-known mothers, Judy Murray is a tennis coach, a businesswoman, an entrepreneur and a serial tweeter. At Bute House, the official residence [...]

In which universe would you predict that the same man who brought the Sex Pistols to the masses would go on to start and lead more than 300 companies in [...]

At the ALA Midwinter Meeting in San Diego, a standing-room-only panel focused on how e-books will affect the future of libraries. From research and pilot programs to digitizing efforts, libraries [...]

Jimmy Wales looks tired and mildly distracted, his eyes red and raw as he holds court before a small group of Wikipedians - those volunteer editors, writers and administrators who [...]

Ace Hotel founder Alex Calderwood shares how developed the business model for the hotel, while also discussing its growth. He believes for example, that his business prospered even during challenging economic conditions because he understands his customers and he had something special to offer. Some Ace hotels have turntables in rooms, and charges less than $100 per room.

New Orleans Saints quarterback David Brees shares his views about promoting entrepreneurship to help the economy of New Orleans recover. Brees believes it was great to establish businesses in town that would create jobs and provide opportunities for others. He also believed that entrepreneurship is just creativity and nothing is impossible if there is vision and desire.

DID OUTSIDE LANDS just win 2019? The long-running festival is the highest-grossing event reported to Billboard Boxscore for the month of August--and the year so far. The 12th annual festival, [...]

SINCE THE BEGINNING OF HIS career in the music business, Def Jam Recordings executive vp/GM Rich Isaacson's 'unwritten mission statement' has been to elevate the underdog. So in 1991, at [...]

Fabrice Penot, the owner of the fragrance company Le Labo, did not want to do any advertising and limited distribution to his stores and to a few exclusive counters. Penot also insisted that each store has a space in which ingredients will be mixed on the spot instead of keeping stock on the shelf. Penot says his company spends money on perfume, not on marketing.

Lisa Disbrew was lying in bed with her laptop open one night in late 2008 when an e-mail caught her attention. A customer of her popular Raleigh, North Carolina, clothing [...]

Internet entrepreneur Ben Huh says that their day to day operation on the network is driven by user-generated content. Huh's company bought the icanhascheezburger.com website which features the LOLcat meme and he says people have been ascribing emotions to cats for a long time.

Byline: Jack Neff Lisa Sugar FOUNDER PopSugar Lisa Sugar's love for pop culture led her to start writing a blog in 2005 that had a million regular readers within a [...]

Entrepreneur and Dragons' Den star Sarah Willingham on work, family and spending a year globe-trotting EARLY STARTS My favourite time is going downstairs at 5am to a still and empty [...]

Views of Gregor Robertson, New Democratic Party MLA and founder of Happy Planet Foods, on relationship between government and business are presented.

One of the best ways to hush a room is to have Martha Stewart walk into it. One day, Martha stops for a cappuccino at a little Italian cafe on […]

PETER GATIEN AND HIS WIFE, Alessandra, take the corner table. They're having dinner at Eight, the Brant Street restaurant and nightclub--a plush, moody lounge that Gatien opened early this year. […]

We hope you will enjoy these profiles of some of the minority small-business owners highlighted here who help to 'rev up' the powerful engine of franchising. Reflected in the profiles [...]

MALCOLM BRICKLIN is the stereotypical great American entrepreneur, an impresario-huckster with more chutzpah than capital. He sits on a stylish black Le Corbusier chair in the open-plan office of his […]

Claudia Swanson has started not one but two garden centers in her career. She has a strong background in environmental education, is a master gardener and Virginia certified horticulturist, and [...]

Last summer, on a muggy Thursday evening, more than 40,000 men came to the Georgia Dome in Atlanta to hear Bishop T. D. Jakes. Millions more watched from home, as […]