Office Yoga Does Not Have To Be Awkward
How the women behind Yoga Means Business are making yoga in the workplace cool–and free from Spandex. There’s no question that to survive in today’s 24-7 work world, many of us have had to make a lot...
View ArticleHow Noah Kerner Gets Inside The Minds Of Millennials
The three-time entrepreneur has worked with clients ranging from Facebook to Chase and Quincy Jones. Noah Kerner has a simple career philosophy: “You have to do what you love in this short life.” And...
View ArticleHow Pharrell’s Creative Director Is Making The World Happy
Mimi Valdés went from magazines to multimedia success. Pharrell Williams recently told a magazine that he used to be “the guy next to the guy.” It was an apt description for a man who spent much of his...
View ArticleHow AudioSalad Is Saving Indie Music
The content management platform is giving labels and indie artists the tools that they need to find success–and make money. When Iain Catling relocated from his native England to New York City, his...
View ArticleTwoople Aims to Eradicate Annoying On-Hold Music
Now you can hang up the phone and start a chat with that customer service rep. Your cable is out, and you’ve been on hold for 31, no 32, minutes waiting for someone to help you. Today, even with all of...
View ArticleJason Moran Is Expanding What It Means To Experience Music
The jazz pianist on how he uses collaboration to expand our ideas about music and how it will be preserved for posterity. What do you do after the world declares you a genius? Take your twin sons to...
View ArticleHow TuneCore Is Making Record Labels Unnecessary
One small company is rewriting the rules of of the music industry. The music industry used to be a very different place. Artists would make a demo or figure out another strategy for getting discovered...
View ArticleYou May Be Thirstier Than You Think
From frazzled office workers to famous rock stars and water-starved communities, DripDrop has the potential to be a game changer. What do athletes, famous musicians, water-deprived parts of the world,...
View ArticleHow To Make Money When Airlines Ruin Your Trip
AirHelp is the affordable advocate every weary traveler needs. A few years ago, Nicolas Michaelsen was headed to Seville, Spain. Typically that would be a good thing. Yet it soon became his personal...
View ArticleThis Company Is Putting The Homeless To Work–As Tour Guides
Barcelona’s Hidden City Tours is a social enterprise that is changing lives one tourist attraction at a time. When Lisa Grace was on maternity leave from her marketing job in Barcelona, her employer...
View ArticleMama Glow Is There For You From The Birthing Room To The Boardroom
Latham Thomas is helping women thrive during their childbearing years. We are living in the midst of a pop culture obsession with motherhood. Famous baby bumps and celeb post-baby body reveals are hard...
View ArticleThis Company Is Changing How Women Go Nude
Nubian Skin may be the push the lingerie industry needs to finally serve all women. Men get asked the question “boxers or briefs” as if that is the fundamental undergarment question. Women wish it were...
View ArticleThis Woman Is Changing Ex-Felons’ Lives–And Her Own
Urban Stone is an eco-friendly business working to end poverty and provide opportunities to former felons. Three seemingly unrelated events changed the course of Mary Cunningham’s life–and has the...
View ArticleThe Key To Rebranding Cannabis Is More Soccer Mom And Less Bob Marley
The marketing mavericks behind Cannabrand do everything from logo creation to websites to social media management. Despite the recent dramatic changes in the world of marijuana–hello, THC-infused...
View ArticleBrooklyn’s Weeksville Is Where Hipsters And History Coexist
Weeksville Heritage Center is intent on preserving the history of 19th-century African Americans. For the past few years, Brooklyn has been charmed. From the New York Times to the HBO show Girls, the...
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Mark Williams
For inviting the Bard into the barbershop. Website Twitter The Problem One spring afternoon in 2014, former cable TV marketer Mark Williams spent 90 minutes waiting to get a haircut at a local...
View ArticleA Long Walk Through Brooklyn With Collaborative Fund Founder Craig Shapiro
How moving at a snail’s pace helps the venture capitalist work more efficiently. It’s easy to imagine the founder and managing partner of a Manhattan venture-capital firm speeding through the streets...
View ArticleA Day In Harlem With TV Personality And People Connector Bevy Smith
Harlem’s biggest advocate schools us on the neighborhood’s historic greatness. While most who know her would describe Bevy Smith as a woman about town, the radio host and TV personality admits that she...
View ArticleEternal It Girl Molly Ringwald Is Busier Than Ever
A look at the jam-packed creative calendar of America’s most famous redhead–and what she prioritizes in the rare moments of downtime. Having just wrapped up a packed morning taping talk show The Chew,...
View ArticleHow David Adjaye Told The Story Of The African-American Experience–With...
The architect behind the new National Museum of African American History and Culture explains how he captured “an extraordinary journey.” For its first 72 years as the nation’s capital, Washington,...
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