Kim Le: Healthy SuperFoods on The Rise; How Prime Roots Raised $4M
Listen to our exclusive interview with Kim Le: Subscribe to this show on Spotify | iTunes | Stitcher | Soundcloud The recent surge in plant-based meat alternative options must have key players in the meat industry shaking in their boots. With newer products as tasty as—if not tastier than—the real thing, environment-conscious consumers and many fast food retailers are […]
Andrew Savage: How Do You Disrupt Urban Transportation & Tackle Climate Change?
Why Lime Has 100 Million Reasons to Celebrate a Greener Urban Landscape Listen to our exclusive interview with Andrew Savage: Subscribe to this show on Spotify | iTunes | Stitcher | Soundcloud Pedalling into the Lime-Light One City at a Time The business world reads The Art of War over its cornflakes every morning. It takes competition that seriously, […]
Blake Mycoskie Exclusive: The Brand that Launched a Thousand Impact Businesses
Listen to the exclusive interview with Blake Mycoskie: Subscribe to this show on Spotify | iTunes | Stitcher | Soundcloud In 2006, America’s top-earning CEOs were making $240 million a year while a fifth of the world lived on $1.9 a day. It was in the absurdly vast space inside the wealth gap that Blake Mycoskie found out that shoelessness […]
Nasreen Sheikh: From Child Slave to Powerful Social Entrepreneur Helping Women Escape Poverty
Nasreen Sheikh was born silent. With no documents to acknowledge her birth or death, and with poverty stuck in her throat like smoke, she was the perfect victim of the sweatshop industry. You can’t report a crime if you don’t exist, and Nasreen learned from an early age that the more she stifled her voice, […]
Creating a Lean Business Plan For Social Impact: Eric Ries & Ann Mei Chang
Listen to our full interview with Ann Mei Change and Eric Ries here The road to profits is littered with good objectives. All you need to do to launch a firecracker startup is talk to a focus group and run a few field trials. Business management is easy. Udemy and Inc.com will teach you how […]
How Sarah Kauss Grew S’well into a $100M Company Combating Plastic (interview)
Humanity has failed its planet remorselessly. Freshwater resources have diminished by 25%, oceanic dead zones have ballooned, and we’ve produced 6 billion tonnes of plastic waste since 2015. We buy a million plastic bottles every minute. The resulting fragments of waste have become suspended just beneath the ocean’s surface, where they’re consumed by marine creatures […]
Google Fool’s Day and the Guerrilla Marketer
In days of yore, April Fool’s Day was about leaving glitter bombs on car seats and planting grass in colleagues’ keyboards. These days, it’s a marketing event glitzy enough to compete with the Super Bowl. Brands across the globe put their senses of humour to work in an attempt to win attention from a target […]
Seth Godin on Leadership for the 21st Century
Seth Godin is the entrepreneurial icon of the digital age, and everything he touches turns to dollars and traffic. His first entrepreneurial venture attracted a $20 million investment within a year. Then he began preaching a concept the rest of the marketing fraternity had missed in the smog of Google ranking mania: that your target […]
How Media Empire Bustle Is Empowering Women
The world rotates on its axis by the power of stories. Words, and the connection they foster, can annihilate loneliness, cure trauma, and even diffuse oppression. When Martin Luther King penned his dream, he did so through the language of intimacy and compassion—two of the most powerful drivers for change. When Lincoln pleaded for equality, […]
