You Found a Rabbit Hole

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 […]

About five years ago, Priya Osuri had a solid career working in marketing for huge medical companies like Roche Pharmaceuticals and Eli Lilly and Company — but her real passion was cooking. After long days at the office, she would trudge home and “cook my heart out” as a way to relax. What is Anar […]

When Handsome app founder Nikki Dominguez looks back to her early days working as a hair stylist, she mostly remembers how lonely and unprepared she felt behind the chair. “At first, I wasn’t able to get the answers or support I needed, so I took it upon myself to pay attention and learn by making […]