'Beating Coke & Pepsi Is What Drives Me'
Vita Coco CEO Michael Kirban thinks it's better to take risks than to be perfect. Here's how he makes quick, smart decisions. Read more
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Bourbon Maker Wins Branding Fight
Maker's Mark recently won a decade-long lawsuit to protect one of its most precious assets. Read more
The Pioneer of the Specialty Coffee Business
An ivy-league graduate ditches the corporate life to open a string of coffee shops in New York City. Read more
Behold, the Future of Restaurants
Here's how one New York City restaurant runs its business completely off the iPad. Is your business next? Read more
How We Accidentally Became Top Online Retailers
The founders of WinesTilSoldOut.com, brothers Elliot and Joseph Arking, explain--together--how they did it. Read more
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Freshii Founder's 5-Part Operating Manifesto 
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Subway's Fred DeLuca: Nail the Basics, Then Expand
The founder of the world's largest fast-food chain discusses how he learned to scale his company, and what's different about business in 2013. Read more
A Few Times a Year We Get the Call, 'The White House Needs Cookies'
Chef Allyson Ames, co-founder of Wonderland Bakery, describes how her cookies became President Obama's favorite--and were ordered for both the 2009 and 2013 ... Watch video
Entrepreneurship Education for the Jobless
A nonprofit is helping transform the unemployed into entrepreneurs through simple but effective training. File that under both 'good deeds' and 'smart econom... Read more
Big Banks Have LIBOR; Small Business Has Lobster?
Maine's lobstermen have gotten hammered by plummeting prices. So why are restaurants soldiering on without adjusting prices? Read more
Will Diners Go for Greek Wine?
Older generations can't seem to embrace Greek wine. One man is trying to open their minds--and revitalize the importing of the forgotten beverage. Read more
Snack Company on a Mission
This young investment banker teamed up with a family friend to build Two Degrees Food, which gives a meal to a hungry child for every fruit bar it sells. Read more
Breaking Into the American Haute-Coffee Market
When Toby Smith decided to open the first U.S. outpost of his Australian boutique coffee shop chain, his first order of business was understanding American t... Read more
Senor Coffee: Helping Grow a Better Bean
Guatemala native Martin Mayorga is helping to grow a better bean, with his Rockville, Maryland-based Senior Coffee, which landed at No. 1,383 on the 2010 Inc... Read more
Recipe for Restaurant Success: Locally Sourced Foods
Trendy San Francisco restaurant flour + water has droves of foodies lining up for locally sourced and hyperlocal cuisine. Read more
Never Be an Employee Again
Kevin Meehan had climbed the ladder of the culinary scene, but yearned to be his own boss. Now he's broken out and is pioneering a whole new movement in dining. Read more
What It Feels Like to Be an Overnight Success
This restaurant went from being a quiet nook New York City's West Village to an always-packed hotspot, overnight. Here's how its owner dealt with the good an... Read more
Reinventing the Doughnut
Pastry chef Waylynn Lucas left the world of fine dining to open a hip doughnut shop in Los Angeles. Welcome to Fonuts. Read more
Meet Tequila's Rising Stars
Celebrating Cinco de Mayo with a margarita? Meet the dynamic duo behind the tequila that was dubbed the world's best white spirit. Read more
Bringing a Muslim Culinary Tradition Mainstream
Think "halal" is a just a dietary restriction? Adnan Durrani, the founder of American Halal, wants to change the definition. Read more
