The Female Founder Behind The Better-For-You Comfort Food Revolution The disruption of frozen pizza couldn’t have come at a more opportune time. As much of the country shelters in place, comfort foods are making a raging comeback. But, paradoxically, better-for-you foods are selling well, too, with organic produce sales jumping 22% in March. One barely three-year-old brand is forging a path to…
5 Reasons You Need To Invest In Yourself As Much As Your Business It’s easy to buy a new course, invest in a new piece of software or hire a VA. But for most entrepreneurs, it’s not so easy to eat the right things, move our bodies once a day or practice delegation so we don’t over fill our work…
How This Founder Saw An Opportunity To Start A Company During The Pandemic Rashida Gayle, founder of Twenty Six Marketing Agency, has utilized her network and prior experience to turn a downsize into an opportunity. Through her six-plus years in the sports industry, mainly managing NFL players, she has developed relationships and strategies that have allowed her to maximize clients’…
Why The Founder Of ‘30 Under 30’ Fashion Startup Choosy Believes Reinvention Is Critical Can a startup be considered both a fashion company and a tech company? In the case of Choosy, that’s a resounding ‘yes.’ The brand that leverages artificial intelligence to identify fashion trends first launched in 2018, and has revolutionized the way women’s clothing is manufactured by…
When Lola cofounders Alexandra Friedman and Jordana Kier first started talking to Walmart about a potential retail partnership for their feminine care products company over a year ago, the world looked very different. Consumers weren’t hoarding toilet paper, companies across the U.S. weren’t working from home, and Friedman and Kier could dream of walking into a brick-and-mortar store and seeing…
Mental and physical health is incredibly important during this time of social distancing. Once shelter-in-place was enacted, fitness studios across the nation closed immediately. For small business owners, the pressure is high. With high rents in big cities and staff to pay, owners have shifted to their digital communities to continue classes and promote health and wellness. Forbes spoke with Burn CEO…
Shay Mitchell is an actress and lifestyle entrepreneur with a growing brand and her own line of travel accessories, Béis. Only in NYC for a whirlwind 24 hours, Shay still made time to sit down in person to talk firsthand about the origins of Béis, and about how taking chances helped launch her career as an actress. Shay landed a breakout…
The rise of influencer culture has transformed the ways in which we interact with, and gain insight into, the lives of those we admire. As such, influencer followership can and does grow into the millions. An influencer’s appeal is largely linked to the high level of transparency that they provide on their platforms; a degree of authenticity that was not…
Revealing the Secrets to Peak Professional and Personal Performance Peak performance — it’s something just about everyone strives for. There are countless diets, books, blogs, TV shows and more dedicated to becoming your best self and operating at your highest capacity, both in business and in life. The question is, can it actually be done? While most focus on just one…
With many retailers currently forced to rethink their physical spaces, The Clear Cut is successfully sustaining its business via social media, online communication tools like FaceTime, and on the strength of its direct-to-consumer concierge approach. Let’s get something clear: its remote approach to selling is not the result of the new retail landscape presented by COVID-19. In fact, The Clear…
