Meet Fred Giovannitti, whose ability to tease designs out of people's brains proves useful in two very different pursuits: tattoo artistry and environmental engineering. Fred Giovannitti is that rarity: a man who divides his time between two extremely disparate careers
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Spencer Antle's Island Company makes swimsuits, resort wear, sunglasses, and sunscreen.
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Conflict can be helpful at an advisor meeting. What's more important? Disciplined use of time.
Read More »Generation Flux: Danah Boyd
Our talk with danah boyd, Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research. She studied at Brown, MIT Media Lab, and UC Berkeley, and was named "High Priestess of the Internet" by the Financial Times
Read More »Our Perfect Merger (and Acquisition)
In a single year, a couple got married, got pregnant, and founded a fast-growing company. Two-thousand and five was the year of the perfect merger and acquisition
Read More »Our Perfect Merger (and Acquisition)
In a single year, a couple got married, got pregnant, and founded a fast-growing company.
Read More »Our Perfect Merger (and Acquisition)
In a single year, a couple got married, got pregnant, and founded a fast-growing company.
Read More »How Do You Define Customer Value?
Business owners sound off about determining customer value.
Read More »Do You Secretly Fear Creativity?
Psychologists warn that stated beliefs and actual behavior often don't match up when it comes to innovation. Among young entrepreneurs , creativity is like gold, with just about every aspiring business owner proudly honing their reputation as an innovator. Of course this makes sense—no one is going to pay for the same old thing they have already
Read More »Box CEO Aaron Levie: To Create Something Exceptional, Do Sweat The Small Stuff
Business schools and most jobs don’t teach you how important it is to sweat the small stuff.
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One business owner's strategy for embracing her role as the boss. This is a guest blog post from Vanessa Merit Nornberg, President of Metal Mafia , and a member of the Inc
Read More »Yelp Goes Live in Australia
Co-founder Jeremy Stoppelman hopes that the review site will go viral Down Under without a marketing campaign. As online review service Yelp prepares for its initial public offering, the company quietly has gone live in Australia today.
Read More »It’s Not All About The Big 3: To Kick-Start Michigan’s Economy, Rick DeVos Invests In Art & Startups
A native son of western Michigan, Rick DeVos believes if business can let go of some control and give people big opportunities to test their ideas, they’ll achieve astonishing results. Rick DeVos is a 29-year-old entrepreneur who wants to jump-start the economy in his home state of Michigan. But don’t file him away between developers of lakeside casinos , film production facilitators ,
Read More »A Heartwarming Tale of Shameless Promotion
How Elf on the Shelf createdand convinced CBS to aira "special" commercial for its product. Elf on the Shelf , Christa Pitts's Marietta, Georgia-based company, is one of the fastest-growing private corporations in the United States.
Read More »Ticketmaster CEO On Brand Hatred: "People Want To Eat My Kids They’re So Angry"
Haters gonna hate. But in recent history, no brand's been on the receiving end of consumer vitriol like Ticketmaster
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