Business Unusual: Page 7
This New App Wants to Optimize Your Schedule by Running It Through an Algorithm
Timeful, a mobile app, applies big data, machine learning and behavioral science to optimize your time and boost your productivity.
This Tool Promises to Find the Best Location for Your Business
Piinpoint helps businesses choose where to open based on facts, not just intuition.
Meet the Artists Helping Companies Think in Pictures
Graphic recording is a budding industry that helps companies foster creative thinking at meetings and events.
A Netflix for Legos – Building a Startup Brick by Brick
Toy rental is the latest entrant to the sharing economy. Pley shares its strategy for navigating this emerging – and fickle – industry.
If You Fry It, They Will Come. Cronuts and the Business Case for Imitation.
This hybrid dessert trend created opportunity across the country. We explain what the Cronut's success can teach you.
It's Like Hitchhiking in the Age of Uber: Sidecar Tests Shareable Rides
San Francisco-based ride-sharing company Sidecar is running a pilot program where users headed in the same direction can split a fare.
This Company Makes Money by Letting Civilians Drive Military Vehicles
"We've crushed cars and motor homes. We've even driven tanks through barns," says founder Tony Borglum
7 Ways Fashion Startups Can Become the Next 'Rent the Runway'
Jennifer Fleiss of Rent the Runway reveals how a startup can keep even the ritziest fashionistas allured by its user experience.
How We Got Our Unlikely At-Home Cocktail Mixer on Store Shelves
The co-founders of this tea mixer company talk mentors, starting up and marketing a product that's the first of its kind.
Data Is the Secret to this $15 Million Supper Club's Success
Some restaurant owners and chefs might cringe, but Dinner Lab's model shows certain advantages for getting a side of data with each dish served.
This Company Makes Motion Capture a Cinch
OpenStage uses multiple cameras and advanced algorithms to capture and display motion data in real time, no special suites or elaborate setups required.
Breaking Into a Tough Market? Lessons From 'Cereal' Entrepreneurs
There's opportunity in every industry, including the established ones, like breakfast cereal. To find success, you just need to think strategically.
Drink Out of Your Glass and Eat It, Too
Meet the startup creating tasty edible glasses that could take a bite out of landfills.
Swagbucks Wants to Be Your eBay, Google and YouTube
In a push to become a household name, the online rewards company just raised $60 million in funding and made Fandago's Chuck Davis its new CEO.
Can Social Entrepreneurship Transform House Sales?
This startup is using the give-back model to help reform the real estate industry.