In my career I have reviewed thousands of resumes and conducted hundreds of employment interviews for both The Trademark Company and other businesses for which I have worked. In doing so, I got to see the good, the bad, and the …
Small Business
Tebowing.com Founder Begins His Off-Season
With praying quarterback Tim Tebow and his Denver Broncos eliminated from the NFL playoffs this past weekend, Jared Kleinstein, 24, the founder of the Web site Tebowing.com and its parent company Tebowing LLC, finally has a …
From Dumpster Diving to Running a $50 Million Company
Ryan Allis talks about how he went from sleeping in his office and dumpster diving to running a $50 million online-marketing-software business
How I Did It: Omar Soliman, CEO of College Hunks Hauling Junk
Soliman explains how he and partner Nick Friedman transformed a disorganized, one-truck operation into a national brand
Can America compete without Steve Jobs?
At first glance, the question that serves as the title of this post might sound a tad ridiculous. After all, Steve Jobs, no matter how talented, was just one man in charge of one company in a $14.6 trillion economy. How can the …
Teapuccino, Anyone? How Argo Got Americans to Drink Tea
Arsen Avakian believed that coffee-obsessed Americans could be taught to share his passion for tea — and built a $15 million business to prove it
Does the West need a new growth model?
As shown by yet another global stock selloff, investors have finally woken to the reality that we have not yet recovered from the 2008 financial crisis. Many smart economists had been warning that this time was different, that we wouldn’t enjoy that simple, V-shaped return to normalcy after the Great Recession. But the global …
Method Home Cleans Up With Style and (Toxic-Free) Substance
A small San Francisco-based company finds success by figuring out that the package matters as much as what’s inside — even when you’re talking about eco-friendly hand soap
New Business Creates Most Jobs
Small businesses are the economy’s great job creators. Or are they? Last year a group of economists digging through new Census data, including a relatively rare measure of firm age, concluded that it’s actually young companies, especially start-ups, that drive the effect normally attributed to small firms. At least that was the …
How Dogfish Keeps Brewing Winners
The brewery’s long-term success has come from its word-of-mouth reputation for great beer, careful attention to business efficiencies, and the growing popularity of craft beer in the United States
Kno Wants a Slice of Apple
Chegg.com’s Osman Rashid says his e-textbook tablet can take the iPad to school
Neighboring Technologies
A new smart-grid idea was born when two firms found they had common interests