After an entrepreneurial failure, Miko Branch launched a new business out of necessity — and identified a lucrative, underserved market in the haircare industry.
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How a First Date Led to Multimillion-Dollar Confection Company Sugarfina
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Co-founder Rosie O’Neill looks back on the early days of building the brand with her now-fiancé: “All of the stories of how we found this concept are wound up in our love story.”
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This Founder Sold Her Home to Fund Her Startup
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Lara Mead, co-founder of athleisure brand Varley, quit her job and sold her house — and it paid off.
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How Two Sisters Turned a Textile Experiment Into a Bustling Global Enterprise
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Lily and Hopie Stockman transformed their long-distance art project into a fast-growing business — by not heeding advice from Harvard Business School and staying true to their vision for a socially-minded brand.
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Why This Intimate Apparel Founder Walked Away From a Wholesale Business That Was 700 Stores Strong
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Knix founder Joanna Griffiths built a company to serve women — all women. When her wholesale partners were failing her customers, she made a drastic pivot.
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How Losing Her Job Helped Jaclyn Johnson Find Her Inner CEO
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Before she launched Create & Cultivate, Jaclyn Johnson founded No Subject, a marketing and events firm. But she never intended to be the boss.
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This Former Dating App CEO Wants to Make Motherhood Less Lonely.
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Michelle Kennedy took her expertise as a leader in the swipe-right dating world and created Peanut, a networking app for moms.
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How Lauren Bush Lauren Hustled a Customs Agent to Save the First Order of FEED Bags
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The founder of the mission-driven FEED looks back on turning her passion project into a fully formed business operation — and finding the right partners to help the brand grow.
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How the Founders of LOLA Learned to Talk up the Feminine Hygiene Market
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Alex Friedman and Jordana Kier learned on the fly to turn their organic tampon company into a VC-funded reality.
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How Research, Research and More Research Led the Co-Founder of Billie to a Successful Launch
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Former ad exec Georgina Gooley had never launched a brand before. By getting to know the space she was entering — and the consumers she hoped to serve — she set out to disrupt the shaving industry.