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Vera Bradley's cofounder explains how she built the beloved $468 million bag...
Summary List PlacementThere's a certain quilted, paisley tote bag you can't miss when you walk into almost any US airport or women's Main Street boutique. One of my high-school friends claimed a...
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I'm a 26-year-old who quit my 6-figure job at Deloitte to be a TikToker and...
Summary List PlacementI'm a business and mindset coach and TikTok influencer who recently left a six-figure consulting job at Deloitte to go out on my own.In year one, I'm estimating I'll make what I...
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The 3 strategies that will help venue owners and live event operators endure...
Summary List PlacementThis article was originally published on April 5, 2021. On July 27, the Small Business Administration shared updated numbers on its Shuttered Venue Operator Grants.Live...
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How live-music venues, theaters, and talent managers can get up to $10...
Summary List PlacementMovie theaters are dark, Broadway is quiet, and many performers without work are among the 5.5 million Americans on unemployment.In September, one owner of a small New York City...
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The COO of Bulletin, a $9 million marketplace for Instagram brands, shares...
Summary List PlacementIn today's Instagram marketplace, where marble tie-dye dresses and Matrix-inspired sunglasses abound, it can be harder than ever to get your product in front of customers. If you...
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The SBA is opening a portal for businesses to get PPP loan forgiveness. Take...
Summary List PlacementThe Small Business Administration (SBA) is expected to open its PPP loan forgiveness portal on August 4 to streamline the application process for eligible businesses. Before,...
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The 1 thing small-business owners need to know about Biden's infrastructure plan
Summary List PlacementPresident Joe Biden and a bipartisan group of senators agreed on Wednesday to a revised infrastructure plan. So far, the small-business provisions in the new $550 billion bill...
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Read the pitch deck 2 founders used to land $59 million to help barbershops...
Summary List PlacementIn 2014 when longtime friends Dave Salvant and Songe LaRon starting thinking about building a business together, they kept coming back to one enterprise that meant a lot to them...
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I left my exec role at Uber to embrace 'polywork.' Here's how I balance at...
Summary List PlacementI live in New York City, and I'm the cofounder and managing director of JJ Studio, a startup consulting agency.Prior to cofounding JJ Studio, I was the head of central operations...
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4 of America's richest self-made women recommend the books that have helped...
Summary List PlacementThe coronavirus pandemic has challenged leaders at every level, from executives of billion-dollar companies to small business owners and startup founders. How they lead their...
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6 questions every founder should ask to make sure new investors will...
Summary List PlacementThe barriers to entrepreneurship are lower than ever, but access to capital for minorities and women remains stagnant. This article is part of a series called Closing the Funding...
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After 20 years in the Bay Area, I left to launch my startup in Nashville —...
Summary List PlacementIt was July 2019, and we'd just received our first seed investment for my startup GraphiteRx, a B2B marketplace for pharmaceuticals and medical supplies.Our team was entirely...
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Read the pitch deck that Afrocenchix, a Black haircare company, used to raise...
Summary List PlacementThe fundraising journey is fresh in Rachael Twumasi-Corson's mind.While raising a seed round for her hair company Afrocenchix, she and her cofounder, Joycelyn Mate, 31, had their...
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How a Funko Pop seller makes $2,900 in 3 hours with his live-shopping side...
Summary List PlacementMiguel Rivera's basement is stacked wall to wall with Funko Pops, the collectible figurines of pop-culture characters from brands like Marvel, Pokémon, and Disney, known by fans...
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Trisha Goyal is the millennial CEO of Break the Love, a tennis company backed...
Summary List PlacementIt all began with a Google search in 2017. Trisha Goyal was in Connecticut looking for a place to play tennis, and quickly realized her task wasn't so simple. Most of her options...
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This 29-year-old founder built a nonprofit that uses art for social change....
Summary List PlacementMo Ghoneim was just 16 years old when he wrote his first television show — a pilot in which teenagers discuss issues impacting them. He sent the idea to various networks in his...
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Small businesses are popping up in malls to grab a slice of the more than $21...
Summary List PlacementThe malls we knew as kids are gone. Teenagers of the 2020s might hang out in a new generation of "pop-up villages" and department stores stocked with a rotation of small brands....
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Want to turn your side hustle into a lucrative business? Learn from these 16...
Summary List PlacementHaving your dream career often begins with a side hustle before it turns into a full-time company. In the last year, a record number of Americans started new businesses. Some...
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4 times you'll need to fire a client as a freelancer, and how to do it right
Summary List PlacementYou might be tempted as a new freelancer to take on any and all assignments that come your way as you build your career.But as your business grows — and if you want it to grow,...
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This 21-year-old cofounder turned biodegradable party cups into a sustainable...
Summary List PlacementLong a staple of frat parties, BBQ's, and tailgates, there's no single object more representative of party culture than the red Solo cup.But after discovering it can take 450...
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