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See who made Upstart's list of top inventors
In the first batch of names to be revealed for the Upstart 100 for 2016, you'll find entrepreneurs creating new ways to test what's in food, to play musical instruments, to interact with gadgets, to...
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The Creatives: Upstart 100 celebrates artful entrepreneurs
Business mavericks today aren't just a bunch of MBAs. They're singers, writers, designers, artists, architects, and even former monks. In the second batch of honorees for the Upstart 100 for 2016, we...
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The Reinventors: Upstart 100 honorees give old businesses a new spin
These entrepreneurs didn't set out to invent something brand new. They took products, processes, and entire businesses that already existed and brought them into today's economy. The latest Upstart 100...
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The Visionaries: Upstart 100's big thinkers and passionate doers
Every person on the Upstart 100 has vision. It's part of what makes them stand out, an essential quality to their business approach. For some, though, vision takes on a greater quality as they set out...
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The Backers: Investors with world-changing goals
There's not always glory in being an investor, though with astuteness and luck, there's plenty of money and job satisfaction behind backing startups. Our Upstart 100 Backers, though, go beyond job...
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The Masters: Upstart 100's world beaters
The seven Masters on the Upstart 100 for 2016 could easily fit any of our categories. They're inventors, reinventors, visionaries, backers and creatives all rolled into one. They've all built amazing...
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NEW YORK: Teenager gets 'Real' with social app launch
NEW YORK — Today, one entrepreneur in New York City is launching a new app designed to make friends and build social awareness. This is actually a pivot from her original business, a magazine aimed at...
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Upstart 100: Meet 2016's most intriguing, ingenious, creative entrepreneurs
For the second year, the Upstart Business Journal is celebrating the most dynamic and disruptive entrepreneurs, executives, venture capitalists, big thinkers and more who are reshaping the American...
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POLITICS: Trump offers Ivanka-influenced child care plan
When Donald Trump laid out his economic vision in Detroit last month, he made mention of a topic not normally top-of-mind for Republican presidential candidates — child care. Now, Trump finally is...
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Martha Stewart's makers: Meet some Made in America standouts (Video)
For five years, Martha Stewart has been drawing extra attention to small businesses that make their products in the United States. But, in a conversation in her Manhattan office Saturday as the fifth...
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Entrepreneur Barbie hits the market with a high-powered panel of real-world...
W e got a look at Entrepreneur Barbie back in February when Mattel introduced her at Toy Fair 2014. Today, girls everywhere didn't just get their chance to buy the new doll; they also got an...
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This is the greatest barrier to entrepreneurship (and it has nothing to do...
For 17 years, Linda Rottenberg's been helping entrepreneurs outside of the United States start and build businesses through Endeavor, the New York-based nonprofit organization she cofounded. Today,...
View ArticleMo Bridges didn't get a Shark Tank investment. He got something much more...
M oziah Bridges didn't get an investment when he stood before Shark Tank's panel of five angel investors looking for financial help to grow his bow tie business. He got something much more—a mentor....
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Seth Godin: Who to blame when you're unpleasantly surprised
T oday's deep thought from Seth Godin , the well-known author and entrepreneur: if someone on your team screws up, the problem might not be them. It could well be you. Godin's daily blog post carries a...
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What people are saying about Tim Geithner's tell-all, Stress Test
T im Geithner's out with a new book that's part personal memoir, part reflection on his time both as head of the New York Federal Reserve Bank and then as President Obama's first Treasury secretary,...
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Snapchat's Spiegel no doubt wishes college emails about women, sex could...
So, we've now apparently stumbled upon the real reason Evan Spiegel and his buddies created Snapchat: he must have wanted to create a communications tool to wipe away incriminating emails he or his...
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Maya Angelou leaves a lasting message for entrepreneurs
Thanks to Michael Hyatt for a blog post drawing out five life lessons we can all take away from the life of Maya Angelou, who died this week at the age of 86. Given Hyatt's role as a writer, podcaster...
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An Upstart May: Apple likes to hear Beats, Snapchat has a bad month, 'Dark...
T he stories, deals, moves and more from the upstart economy that made us take notice in May. Upstart moves for May Do you have your ‘Dark Wallet’ ready? This new bit of technology could return bitcoin...
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Brendan Kennedy wants to rip down the 'Berlin Wall of cannabis prohibition'
B rendan Kennedy does not look like the poster child for marijuana. And that's by design. The articulate, clean cut, Yale-educated 42-year-old leads Privateer Holdings, the first private equity firm...
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ISIS puts target on Twitter and Jack Dorsey
T he terrorist group ISIS has made use of social networks like Twitter to expand its reach, attract new recruits and publicize its attacks. But after Twitter sought to block ISIS accounts, the...
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