An interview with Monique Greenwood, CEO of Akwaaba Mansion bed & breakfast in Brooklyn and other East Coast inns.
What inspired you to open Akwaaba?
Akwaaba tapped into all my passions: decorating, entertaining, and real-estate investing. When we o...
An interview with Renee Greenstein, designer of the clothing lines Attitudes by Renee and Women with Control, a bestseller on QVC.
What did you do to differentiate you clothing lines from what's already out there?
Style is all about attitude, not si...
Twelve years ago, Danielle Paletz saw what her boss was doing and thought, “I can do that.” And she did.
First, she successfully made the leap to founder, launching the staffing recruitment firm iQuestPartners in New York City. Clients n...
Laurel Touby is the founder of mediabistro.com, which serves up news, job listings, and classes to media pros. She sold her company for $23 million in 2007. We caught up with Laurel at SXSW Interactive.
Why did you start mediabistro?
It started as a sal...
An interview with Noha Waibsnaider, founder and CEO of Peeled Snacks, sold nationwide in Starbucks, BJs and Duane Reade.
Why did you start Peeled Snacks?
I grew up partly in Argentina and Israel, then moved to the U.S. when microwaved and processed food...
We talked to Andrea Miller about YourTango, the digital media company she launched in 2008 about love and relationships, now attracting three million unique visitors per month.
What's the hardest part about entrepreneurship?
As someone who has work...
A few years ago, A few years ago, Tara Gentile made $28,000 a year working in retail. She left her job to pursue her own business—and now her income clears six figures.
In her new name-your-own-price e-book, The Art of Earning, Gentile reveals the proc...
Lines around the block! A new tell-all TV series! Is Snooki dumping her poof? Did Lindsay make parole?
No, but Georgetown Cupcakes—the hot bake shop started by two sisters in Washington—just hit the big time with "DC Cupcakes", a six-p...
Caitlin O'Toole writes the Miss Jobless Chronicles for MediaBistro.
When you're under- or un-employed for a long time, like me, you begin to dwell on all the material things you don't have. The catalogs that land in your mailbox seem to be sent ...
Amanda Steinberg is the founder of DailyWorth.
When I was a kid, being raised by a single mom, money was tight. But I always believed that when I crossed a certain income threshold the money stress would evaporate. I'd be free of the need to be frugal&mdas...
Tara Gentile is the blogger behind ScoutieGirl and the founder of her own boutique web design company.
Bye-bye retail
In the fall of 2008, when my maternity leave was over, I quit my dead-end retail job and decided to explore work of my own making.
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