Building a Business
How to Build a Community Around Your Brand
Jessica Abo sits down with the CEO and founder of everyday essentials brand GEM.
By Jessica Abo
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Business News
Microsoft Pledges $500M for Affordable Housing in Seattle
The pledge is intended to help tackle the low and middle-income housing crisis in Seattle, but also to encourage policy change, new investment by the state, and to support organizations that help the homeless.
Buying a Franchise
This Coworking-Space Franchise Is Winning Without the WeWork-style Perks
Office Evolution might not have kombucha on tap, but it has a nationwide community of entrepreneurs who are willing to lend a helping hand.
Online Presence
These Food Industry Veterans Say That Building a Community Is the Most Important Part of a Food Startup
Real Good Foods started selling its chicken-crust pizzas online before making the push to get into stores.
Thought Leaders
How Women Entrepreneurs in This Rural Peru Community Work Together to Build a Stronger Business
To provide support for their entire community, these female founders must collaborate, rather than compete.
Business News
The Woman Behind One of the Country’s Largest Animal-Welfare Organizations Shares Her Leadership Advice When Dealing With a Divisive Community
Despite its laudable mission, Best Friends Animal Society has its critics. Its new CEO, Julie Castle, shares how to work with those who may not see eye to eye with you.
Entrepreneurs
What Motivates You to Work?
That paycheck will never be big enough if it's the only reason you're going to work.
Human Resources
This Entrepreneur Fought Her Neighbors for Her Right to Open Her First D.C. Restaurant and Won
It took this restaurant owner three times as long as expected to get her liquor license after a community battle with men who accused her of trying to open a brothel.
By Rose Previte
Thought Leaders
6 Global Trends Reveal How Women Are Redefining Entrepreneurship
Females are unlocking massive opportunities for business expansion.
Business Funding
Use This Mindset to Help Everyone in Your Network Succeed
Animus Women's Innovation Summit founder Lucienne Gigante says providing economic opportunities for women is what will set our global communities on a path to prosperity.
By Nina Zipkin
Building a Business
$0 to $1,000 in a Day: How to Create a Community That Keeps Buying and Buying From You
Ecommerce pro Trevor Chapman shares a secret that doesn't take a lot of work but yields huge results.
Business Funding
Want to Join a Women-Only Accelerator? Read This First.
How do you choose the right accelerator, as a female entrepreneur, to ensure that the time and money spent is valuable?
Building a Business
How You Can Cultivate the One Thing Customers Truly Want
Every company wants to drive customer loyalty, but many neglect the fact that what customers want is community.
Marketing
Are You Craving Community for Your Customers? Here Are the Tools You’ll Need.
Cultivating a feeling of 'community' is crucial to any company's success.Without it, customers will just shop somewhere else.
By AJ Agrawal
Thought Leaders
3 Women Entrepreneurs Share Their Stories of Courage, Community and Innovation 8 Months After Hurricane Maria
The island has faced challenges since the devastating storm, but the startup community is focused on the future.
By Nina Zipkin
Entrepreneurs
Tour This Upscale Coworking Space That Strives to Energize and Inspire Its Members
NeueHouse, with locations in Manhattan and Hollywood, looks for members who will give more than they take.
Thought Leaders
This Founder Stuck Through More Than 700 Investor Meetings to Achieve Her Dream
Anu Duggal took what she learned as an ecommerce entrepreneur to launch a venture capital firm called Female Founders Fund.
By Nina Zipkin
Thought Leaders
7 Outreach Tactics Entrepreneurs Can Use In Troubled Times
Need help getting off the ground? Use these seven strategies to reach out to new people.
Thought Leaders
What You Need to Know to Get the Most Out of a Coworking Space
Coworking spaces are great for meeting other entrepreneurs, building relationships and more.
By Rose Leadem
Entrepreneurs
I Didn’t Need to Drop Ayahuasca to Learn Something Deep About Community From This Coworking Space
The co-founder of The Assemblage was inspired to bring people together after partaking in the hallucinogenic drug.
Thought Leaders
Being a Female Entrepreneur Can Be Incredibly Lonely. This Founder Is Changing That.
Kathleen Griffith, the founder behind Build Like a Woman, plans on forging connections and community with female entrepreneurs.
By Nina Zipkin
Building a Business
This Company Took a Huge Risk When It Opened Its $30 Million Collaborative Space
When it opened its door, community space New Lab wasn't filled to capacity.
Thought Leaders
How This Famous Rapper-Entrepreneur Is Transforming The Bronx
Platinum hip-hop artist Styles P launched a chain of juice bars to bring affordable, healthy options to underserved communities.
By Kira Halevy
Building a Business
What Every Company Can Learn From Amazon’s Search for a Second Headquarters
Here is the mindset you need to maximize the resources you have your disposal.
By Nina Zipkin
Thought Leaders
This Successful Entrepreneur Shares How You Can Build A High-Performing Company While Staying True to Your Values
Nextdoor CEO Nirav Tolia says its as simple as investing in people and putting them first.
By Nina Zipkin
Thought Leaders
This Founder Explains How to Get the Most Bang for Your Buck in a Collaborative Workspace
From utilizing the resources to getting advice from your neighbors, community workspaces can be extremely beneficial.
Thought Leaders
7 Strategies to Help Entrepreneurs Make Sensible Political Donations
It doesn't take a tremendous investment of time, effort or money to get politically engaged and make your business interests known.