Stock broker Shrini Viswanath, who runs the discount broking platform, Upstox, says his personal investing journey started with Wall Street when we invested in the company he was working for. “From there, I realised that the company you work for is also a company that you can invest in; and that the work you’re doing … Read more
Seth Berkowitz remembers a time when his business was “really, really struggling,” and he wasn’t sure if he wanted to go on — until he got a pep talk from his wife. Berkowitz, 43, is the CEO and co-founder of Insomnia Cookies, a chain of late-night bakeries he started in 2002 as a college side … Read more
Deryl McKissack’s career is a culmination of effort from five generations. The 62-year-old is the president and CEO of McKissack & McKissack, the Washington, D.C.-based construction management and design firm behind some of today’s most recognizable buildings — from building the Smithsonian African American Museum of History and Culture to repairing the Abraham Lincoln and Thomas … Read more
Two decades ago, Seth Berkowitz was a college student with a late-night craving for a “warm, delicious treat.” Today, he’s the CEO of Insomnia Cookies, the company he co-founded as a college junior and grew into a chain with more than 260 locations by satisfying that very craving for customers around the world. Insomnia was … Read more
Some people celebrate big career wins by splurging on a Rolex watch. Not Mark Cuban. At age 32, he sold his first startup — a software company called MicroSolutions — for $6 million. That same day, he took off his watch and threw it away, he said at a SXSW panel earlier this month. It … Read more
If you ask Saphira and Maurizio Rasti, the way to a “Shark Tank” star’s heart is through their stomach. The Costa Mesa, California-based husband-and-wife duo brought investors treats from their business, Nowhere Bakery, on Friday’s episode of the ABC television show. The pair launched their bakery with $400 in March 2020, two weeks before the … Read more
After leaving engineering jobs at Amazon three years ago, Brett Skaloud and Jeff Feiereisen built a showerhead startup with social media virality, thousands of customers and $5 million in projected annual revenue. They still couldn’t land a deal on Friday’s episode of ABC’s “Shark Tank” due to making what billionaire investor Mark Cuban referred to … Read more
The story of Matt Scanlan, Diederik Rijsemus and cashmere apparel brand Naadam reads like an adventure novel. During a globetrotting vacation in 2013, the two college friends found themselves stranded among Mongolian goat herders in the Gobi Desert for three weeks. They learned about the wool trade, and came away with a business idea: Make … Read more
Technology is so pervasive and invasive that it’s polarizing people, producing feelings of love and loathing for its devices, online services and the would-be visionaries behind them. Longtime Silicon Valley reporter Kara Swisher unwraps how we got to this point in her incendiary memoir, “Burn Book,” coming out Tuesday, an exposé that also seeks to … Read more
Even in the face of stubborn inflation, small business owners are striking a more positive tone. Optimism surrounding the economy is rising and the CNBC|SurveyMonkey Small Business Confidence Index reached its highest level since President Joe Biden took office, according to the latest quarterly data released on Thursday morning. Twenty-eight percent of small business owners … Read more
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