Oct 1, 2026 | Start A Business
In early 2005, three former PayPal employees, Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim, registered the domain YouTube.com. The plan was a dating site with a twist: instead of writing a profile, you’d upload a video of yourself. The slogan was “Tune In, Hook...
Oct 1, 2026 | Start A Business
In 2007, Andrew Mason launched a website called The Point. It was an ambitious idea: a platform where people could rally around a cause, from a neighborhood fix to a consumer boycott, and pledge to act only if enough others pledged too. Once a campaign hit its...
Sep 24, 2026 | Start A Business
When a business starts to slide, the instinct is to look forward. New offer, new marketing, new website, new niche. What almost nobody does is look back at the people who already told them something was wrong, by leaving. Former clients and lapsed customers are the...
Sep 24, 2026 | Start A Business
In 2009, Kevin Systrom started building an app called Burbn. It was a location check-in app, the kind that was fashionable at the time, and it did a lot. You could check in at places, make plans with friends, earn points for going out and post photos. In March 2010 he...
Sep 24, 2026 | Start A Business
In 1903, James L. Kraft was a partner in a small cheese company in Buffalo, New York. While he was away on a business trip to Chicago, his partners dissolved the partnership without him. He was stuck in a strange city with no business and, by most accounts, $65 to his...
Sep 18, 2026 | Start A Business
Check your business numbers on a schedule, not on impulse, and only check the ones that would change what you do this week. Count how many times a day you look at a number about your business. Sales so far this month. Site visits. Follower count. Open rate on the last...
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