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Entrepreneur's Journals

February 23, 2010

Getting the Startup Equation Right

The Entrepreneur: Caterina Fake, 40 Background: Social media pioneer and co-founder of the photo-sharing service Flickr, she led the technology development group at ...

February 19, 2010

Selling the Business with Social Mission Attached

Entrepreneur: Judy Wicks, 62 Background: In 1970, Wicks co-founded the Free People's Store, which is now Urban Outfitters (URBN). She founded the White Dog Café as a ...

December 29, 2009

To Recruit the Best, Admit Weaknesses

The Entrepreneur: Andy Dunn, 30 Background: In 2003, Dunn, then a consultant with Bain & Co., worked in a Lands' End (SHLD) call center in Dodgeville, Wis. He was ...

November 20, 2009

Why Brooklyn Industries Manufactures in China

Entrepreneur: Lexy Funk, 39 Background: New York City native Funk met her partner, Turkish-born Vahap Avsar, at an artists-in-residence program in upstate New York. A ...

October 23, 2009

Moving Home to Expand the Family Business

Entrepreneur: Justin Gagnon, 31 Background: After graduating from the University of Notre Dame in 2000 with a bachelor's degree in business administration, Gagnon ...

September 25, 2009

Creating Café Barcomi's in Berlin

Entrepreneur: Cynthia Barcomi, 46 Background: Just one month after graduating from Columbia University in 1985, Cynthia Barcomi decided on a whim to move to Berlin to ...

July 31, 2009

Struggling with the Temporary Worker Visa Process

The Entrepreneur: Meg Crawford, 61 Background: Crawford's love of gardening began when she was a child cultivating flowers with her mother in her family's garden. ...

May 22, 2009

How We Started a Liquor Brand

The Entrepreneurs: Courtney Reum, 29, and Carter Reum, 28 Background: Six years ago, Courtney and his brother, Carter, then both Goldman Sachs (GS) investment bankers,...

April 24, 2009

Managing Growth at a Pet-Insurance Business

The Entrepreneurs: Chris Ashton, 36, and Natasha Ashton, 34 Background: The British-born married couple moved to the U.S. in 2001 to attend the The Wharton School at ...

March 31, 2009

A $100,000 Education for Newbie Inventors

Entrepreneurs: Marianne Kay, 51, and Rick Kay, 44 Background: Sports enthusiasts and parents of three athletic kids, Kay and Rick worked together in real estate ...

March 3, 2009

Iman's Mass-Market Distribution Model

The Entrepreneur: Somali-born former supermodel Iman, 53 Background: Fashion photographer Peter Beard discovered Iman in 1975, when she was a 19-year-old student at ...

January 23, 2009

Making a Do-Gooder's Business Model Work

The Entrepreneur: Blake Mycoskie, 32 Background: A self-described serial entrepreneur and inveterate traveler, Mycoskie's ventures have ranged from a laundry service ...

December 19, 2008

Expanding Honest Tea Without Diluting Its Brand

The Entrepreneur: Seth Goldman, 43 Background Goldman, an active runner since the eighth grade, had been hunting for the perfect thirst quencher for years, often ...

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