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How I Did It: Rachel Ashwell, Shabby Chic
Rachel Ashwell was a single mother when she opened her first Shabby Chic boutique in Santa Monica, California. Then the financial crisis hit. Read story
The Way I Work: David Sacks, Yammer
David Sacks likes using his company's product to communicate with employees. He's also fond of peering over their shoulders. Read story
The Way I Work: Jen Bilik of Knock Knock
Jen Bilik, founder of the stationery and gift business Knock Knock, considers herself the company's "creative monarch." Read story
The Way I Work: Alison Pincus of One Kings Lane
"I am a connector by nature," says Alison Pincus, who needs multiple calendars to juggle her hectic schedule. Read story
The Way I Work: David Karp of Tumblr
As a kid, David Karp, the founder of Tumblr, taught himself to code and dropped out of high school. Now 24 years old, Karp runs his company his way—and ref... Read story
How I Did It: Tumi's Charlie Clifford
How Charlie Clifford listened to consumers, salespeople, and employees to build Tumi into a powerful luggage brand Read story
The Way I Work: Rashmi Sinha of SlideShare
A fan of quick meetings and rapid software development, SlideShare CEO Rashmi Sinha would rather make mistakes than overthink. Read story
The Way I Work: Jamie Latshaw of Lexicon
Jamie Latshaw is a stay-at-home mom. She also runs one of the fastest-growing companies in America. Read story
A Fair-Trade Valentine
A look at companies that are making chocolate and doing good Read story
The Way I Work: Michael Arrington of TechCrunch
Michael Arrington loves breaking tech stories, but he’s not big on PR people, conversational niceties, or sunlight. Read story
How I Did It: John Vechey, Founder of PopCap
How a small company is capturing a big audience in the casual gaming market. Read story
How I Did It: Jerry Murrell, Five Guys Burgers and Fries
Along with his sons, Jerry Murrell of Five Guys Burgers and Fries built a 570-store chain that enjoys a cult following. Read story
The Way I Work: Paul English of Kayak
Kayak.com co-founder Paul English is obsessed with customer service. That's why he bought the most annoying phone he could find. Read story
The Way I Work: Kathy Ireland
Former supermodel Kathy Ireland founded a little company to make products for “busy moms” like herself. Now, with revenue of $1.4 billion, she’s busier... Read story
How We Did It: Amy Robinson and Eric Steel, producers of Julie & Julia
Movie producers, like entrepreneurs, need a strong stomach for risk. It can take years of planning, pitching, negotiating, coaxing, hoping, and praying to... Read story
The Blue Man Group Opens a School
The founders of the Blue Man Group designed the pre-K and elementary school as an alternative to the New York school scene -- and parents are lining up. Read story
The Way I Work: Essie Weingarten, of Essie Cosmetics
"God gave me an innate ability to pick colors." Read story
How We Did It: The Blue Man Group
From downtown performance art to global entertainment empire. Read story
Things I Can't Live Without: Lavetta Willis
Every entrepreneur has a dream. Lavetta Willis says hers is to avoid speaking to anyone for 10 days. Read story
Things They Can't Live Without
Five young entrepreneurs share a few of their favorite things--and what’s on their holiday wish lists. Read story
Things I Can't Live Without: Jeffrey Garrison
Think all accountants are uncool and humorless? Jeffrey Garrison and his singing deer, Buck, beg to differ. Read story
Things I Can't Live Without: Jennifer Silano Foy
Walk in the $995 boots of a dot-com fashionista. Read story
Things I Can't Live Without: Greg Strause
What time is it? Time for a $25,000 watch. Read story
Things I Can't Live Without: Jerry Airola
President and owner, Silver State Helicopters Former police officer Jerry Airola can't get enough of the whirlybirds. He took some... Read story
Things I Can't Live Without: Jalem Getz
Why Jalem Getz, who founded the $30 million Web retailer BuyCostumes.com, wouldn't mind living like Magnum, P.I. Read story
Betty Gammill, Delta Feed and Seed
"E veryone ... Read story
Bridgette "Queen" Matthews, Viking Employee
"I made ca... Read story
Fred Carl, President and Founder of Viking Range
"A s Viking... Read story
Harry Smith, the Mayor of Greenwood
"I have be... Read story
Martha Foose, Mockingbird Bakery
"W hen my h... Read story
First He Built a Company
An iconic company, in fact: Viking Range, the economic engine of Greenwood, Mississippi. And then, because perhaps a local boy has a responsibility to do mor... Read story
Things I Can't Live Without: Michael Murdoch
Michael Murdoch, founder of Internet security firm AppRiver, has grown fond of a homicidal sock monkey. Read story
Things I Can't Live Without: Michael Murdoch
Michael Murdoch, founder of Internet security firm AppRiver, has grown fond of a homicidal sock monkey. Read story
Things I Can't Live Without: Donna Grucci Butler
What dazzles Donna Grucci Butler, maker of some of the world's most spectacular fireworks displays. Read story
Things I Can't Live Without: Eliot Wadsworth
For Eliot Wadsworth, owner of White Flower Farm, it's all about the delphiniums. Read story
My Place: Adam Berger's Glass House
You know what they say about CEOs who live in glass houses: They need a lot of cabinets. Read story
Things I Can't Live Without: Laurie McCartney
When she's not running her $50 million company, you'll find Laurie McCartney of Babystyle cruising on her Hello Kitty bicycle. Read story
Things I Can't Live Without: Gary Hirshberg
Why Gary Hirshberg, CEO of Stonyfield Farm, values his wife's raspberries, his custom hiking boots, and the words of Nelson Mandela. Read story
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