Research is key to being an entrepreneur. It’s also good to remember that you always get what you pay for. Meredith Stevens has been identified as one of the rising stars of the digital design industry with her work at Miss Bongo. During her college years, Meredith Stevens spent…
If you don’t know what to do, simply do SOMETHING! Don’t let your insecurities hold you back. Christel Oerum is the creator of DiabetesStrong.com, a health and exercise website for people living with diabetes. She has lived with type 1 diabetes since 1997 and lives by the motto “there…
Once you have a little success in life, people will start to approach you with every type of distraction possible…please review this business plan, invest in this or that, sit on my board, help me, show me, the requests never end. Just say no. Success in business takes a maniacal focus…
Always listen to the customer, and don’t take it personally. If they don’t like what you are doing, don’t force it! Move on. Jaclyn Elbaum is the owner and designer of Love Audry Rose, a line of hand-made jewelry from Santa Monica, California. All of the jewelry is made…
This is not a sprint—brace for the marathon. Steve Farzam is a hospitality expert with experience at every level of hotel management, from conceptualization and design all the way to day-to-day operations. He currently serves as the chief operating officer (COO) of the Shore Hotel in Santa Monica, California,…
I find and empower the right people to make things happen. My biggest desire is to get all the right people in the right positions, and they’re the ones ultimately responsible for execution.” Andrey Kudievskiy is the founder and CEO of Distillery, an international full-service software design and development…
If I had to do it all over again, I would have been willing to trust my feelings earlier that what I was doing wasn’t fun and I needed to take more risks and move on to what I was passionate about. Marc Guren is Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer…
I like to create outlines of thought patterns that resemble lines of code – that way I can know what inputs are necessary, what conditionals must be met, and what our outputs might look like. Nicco is the co-founder and CEO of WoahStork. Nicco is also a Ph.D. student at…