You Found a Rabbit Hole

We can’t even begin to try to enumerate all of the Black business owners who have made history in the United States. From Mary Todd Lincoln’s dressmaker, Elizabeth Keckley, to modern multi-hyphenates like Jay Z, there are too many people to cram into one short article. But these are some of the Black entrepreneurs in […]

Some founders say that unless you’re working full-time on your business, you’re not fully committed. Siri Chakka of Reset disagrees. “You’ve got to be prudent. There’s a lot of talk about startups and founders quitting their jobs and going all in. I don’t think that’s necessary. I think it puts you in a situation where […]

What does a Kim Shui garment look like? Ask the 29-year-old fashion designer herself, and she’s proudly described her clothes as “Ming Dynasty meets Eurotrash,” churning out vibrant, mishmashed designs that tend toward the risqué. Consider it fashion perfected for the Instagram age. Yet despite the sometimes fickle nature of the viral spotlight, Shui has […]

To the average customer, Manville Chan’s business, The Story of Ramen, is a brick-and-mortar service. And it’s a unique one. Neither merely a restaurant nor a cooking class, TSR combines elements of both, with Chan and co-owner Jeff Parsons inviting groups into his storefront in San Francisco’s Mission District to learn the history of ramen, […]

It’s pretty easy to imagine a group of 20-somethings devoting every last waking hour to Sapphire, a company whose primary product is a sleek, weight-controlled electric skateboard. Get the product in front of customers, the thinking went, and the thing would sell itself. “When I got on the board, my eyes lit up,” says CEO […]

At the end of October, Texas Party Animals arrived at a Houston office building to celebrate Alice co-founder and CEO Carolyn Rodz’s birthday. The name connotes a delivery of Jell-O shots, perhaps a round or two of cornhole. But Loretta Hajovsky and her family had arrived from La Grange with far more precious cargo. In […]