How Suneera Madhani Found A Smarter Way To Process Payments By Yola Robert Suneera Madhani’s fintech company, Stax, has processed over $23 billion in payments for 22,000 businesses. With a growth rate of more than 500% year over year, Stax has tripled its valuation leading the company into unicorn territory. But Madhani’s beginnings with Stax weren’t always this gleaming. The first-generation…
Being Nimble & Strategic Helped Her Overcome Business Obstacles By Geri Stengel In October 2017, Ginger Bowman purchased a commercial printing business. In the five years since, she has overcome three significant challenges by being flexible and pivoting. High customer concentration. An industry that was set in its ways. The pandemic. Some in the industry thought Bowman would fail. But,…
Jade Watson Has Built SickBird Into A Powerhouse Production Company By MeiMei Fox Digitally-native production company SickBird Productions partners with brands, studios and talent to launch original content. Their work includes three Facebook Watch Originals for The Shade Room — The Shade Brunch, Thick House and Love Locked — ten Snapchat Discover series, three of which are SickBird Originals, and branded content for TikTok including Noah…
Bobbi Brown Talks Career, Parenting and Taking Chances By Emily Washcovick Bobbi Brown built her makeup empire—for the first time—in the nineties, at a time when shades often had to be heavily mixed to match skin tones and bigger looks were favored over subtle. Her namesake brand, Bobbi Brown Cosmetics, was acquired by Estée Lauder in 1995, but Bobbi stayed…
Tracee Ellis Ross on Entrepreneurship & Supporting Black Businesses By Vanessa Etienne Tracee Ellis Ross has always dreamed of being an entrepreneur. And in 2019 with the launch of her haircare line Pattern Beauty — a curly girl-friendly collection of shampoos, conditioners, gels, creams, tools and more — the Black-ish star, 49, made that dream a reality. “I wanted to have a business and I…
How This Entrepreneur Started Managing Her Money By Melissa Houston When Julie Solomon moved to Los Angeles, a city where she had no ties, she felt lonely. She turned to spending money to fill the loneliness, filling that emotional void that loneliness caused. When her husband found out that she had been hiding $30,000 in credit card debt, Solomon had to deal…
Dagne Dover’s Female Cofounders Champion Sustainable Fashion By MeiMei Fox As the fashion industry moves increasingly in the direction of sustainability, Dagne Dover has emerged to meet consumer demand. The eco-conscious brand creates bags, backpacks and wallets with a functional minimalist design built for today’s modern lifestyle, able to transition easily from work to play to travel. It was founded in 2013 by…
How Mane Addicts Changed The Game For Hairstylists And Founders By Karin Eldor Jen Atkin’s platform Mane Addicts gives new meaning to the power of community, collaboration, creativity, and content. (Not to mention the saying, “Content is queen.”) Atkin famously documented her rise to celebrity hairstylist (with clients ranging from the Kardashians and Jenners to Chrissy Teigen) followed by entrepreneurship…
Bonberi’s Nicole Berrie Wants To Bring Intuitive Eating To All By Gabby Shacknai It was the early aughts, and Nicole Berrie appeared to have it all. She was living in New York City and just a few years out from college, was already working her dream job as a writer for Vanity Fair during the heyday of glossy magazines. It was everything…
3 Lessons For CEOs & Founders Needing a Creative Breakthrough By Kathy Caprino According to recent data and research, creativity has been ranked as a top skill for business success today. In a 2020 World Economic Forum “Future of Jobs Report,” creativity was rated highly as an important emerging skill across numerous countries. But very often, seasoned CEOs and leaders can rely too…
