Building a Business
Everfan’s Custom Capes Take Off Among Superhero Worshipers
Meet the man who built a grown-up business from a childhood love of superheroes.
By Jodi Helmer
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Thought Leaders
As ‘The Walking Dead’ Thrives, So Do Zombie Survival Camps
America has an insatiable appetite for the undead -- and survivalist zomb-preneurs are rising up to meet the creepy demand.
Tech
This App Wants to Help Get Rid of Your Parking Tickets
Got a parking ticket? This new app disputes your tickets so you don't have to.
By Emily Price
Building a Business
There’s Now a Crowdfunding Campaign for a Permanent Cat Café in NYC
Good news for cat lovers: a cat sanctuary and tea house is trying to open in NYC, if it can raise $65,000 in startup funds.
By Kate Taylor
Building a Business
Self-Healing Phones? Try Roads That Fix Themselves.
What if a road existed that never had a crack or a pothole? Science might have a solution.
By Jason Fell
Building a Business
A Gadget That Detects Gluten? With $4 Million in Funding, This Startup Is Working on It.
The year-old company is working to develop a portable gluten detecting sensor.
By Nina Zipkin
Marketing
Check Out the ‘Living Pictures’ That Could Revolutionize the Ad Industry
Cinemagraphs – still photos with a moving element – can be captivating. But are they just a passing gimmick?
By Neil Parmar
Business News
This Anti-Luxe Lodging Startup Will Put You Up in a Half-Built Treehouse For $19
A new online service aims to find accommodations for brave, broke college students who are traveling.
Building a Business
MBAs for Hire, By the Hour
A startup raises nearly $5 million to match companies with the well-educated consultants they need.
By Gwen Moran
Thought Leaders
Can This Mattress Startup Wake Up a Sleepy Market?
Casper raised $13.1 Million in Series A funding last week. We explain what this unique startup needs to do to battle sleeping giants like Simmons, Serta and Sealy.
By Neil Parmar
Business News
Can Giveback Programs Help School Supplies Sellers Stand Out?
These businesses are borrowing tricks from social entrepreneurs to break into the commodities market.
By Neil Parmar
Entrepreneurs
This New App Wants to Optimize Your Schedule by Running It Through an Algorithm
Timeful, a mobile app, applies big data, machine learning and behavioral science to optimize your time and boost your productivity.
By Laura Entis
Building a Business
This Tool Promises to Find the Best Location for Your Business
Piinpoint helps businesses choose where to open based on facts, not just intuition.
Thought Leaders
Meet the Artists Helping Companies Think in Pictures
Graphic recording is a budding industry that helps companies foster creative thinking at meetings and events.
By Jacob Hall
Building a Business
A Netflix for Legos – Building a Startup Brick by Brick
Toy rental is the latest entrant to the sharing economy. Pley shares its strategy for navigating this emerging – and fickle – industry.
By Neil Parmar
Building a Business
If You Fry It, They Will Come. Cronuts and the Business Case for Imitation.
This hybrid dessert trend created opportunity across the country. We explain what the Cronut's success can teach you.
Building a Business
It’s Like Hitchhiking in the Age of Uber: Sidecar Tests Shareable Rides
San Francisco-based ride-sharing company Sidecar is running a pilot program where users headed in the same direction can split a fare.
Thought Leaders
This Company Makes Money by Letting Civilians Drive Military Vehicles
"We've crushed cars and motor homes. We've even driven tanks through barns," says founder Tony Borglum
By Jason Ankeny
Human Resources
7 Ways Fashion Startups Can Become the Next ‘Rent the Runway’
Jennifer Fleiss of Rent the Runway reveals how a startup can keep even the ritziest fashionistas allured by its user experience.
Thought Leaders
How We Got Our Unlikely At-Home Cocktail Mixer on Store Shelves
The co-founders of this tea mixer company talk mentors, starting up and marketing a product that's the first of its kind.
By Kate Taylor
Tech
Data Is the Secret to this $15 Million Supper Club’s Success
Some restaurant owners and chefs might cringe, but Dinner Lab's model shows certain advantages for getting a side of data with each dish served.
By Neil Parmar
Tech
This Company Makes Motion Capture a Cinch
OpenStage uses multiple cameras and advanced algorithms to capture and display motion data in real time, no special suites or elaborate setups required.
Thought Leaders
Breaking Into a Tough Market? Lessons From ‘Cereal’ Entrepreneurs
There's opportunity in every industry, including the established ones, like breakfast cereal. To find success, you just need to think strategically.
By Neil Parmar
Thought Leaders
Drink Out of Your Glass and Eat It, Too
Meet the startup creating tasty edible glasses that could take a bite out of landfills.
By Jodi Helmer
Building a Business
Swagbucks Wants to Be Your eBay, Google and YouTube
In a push to become a household name, the online rewards company just raised $60 million in funding and made Fandago's Chuck Davis its new CEO.
By Laura Entis
Thought Leaders
Can Social Entrepreneurship Transform House Sales?
This startup is using the give-back model to help reform the real estate industry.
By Neil Parmar