Startup Stories

A misfit who grew up hating school, Sophia Amoruso left home at 17, intent on a life of anarchy and getting by for free. She says...

In 2012, Snapchat, when was little more than a year old, was struggling to shake a reputation that it was only popular for sending inappropriate photos....

When Emma Yang was 7 or 8 years old, her grandmother became increasingly forgetful. Over the next few years, those memory problems, caused by early Alzheimer’s disease,...

Teatulia, an organic tea company with its CEO and cofounder Linda Appel Lipsius isn’t just banking on changing consumer preferences to sell their product, she’s confident...

An executive from Seattle visits Milan and is entranced by the coffee culture. He describes it as “the symphony of flavor, the romance and showmanship that...

The world knows Elon Musk as a wealthy, imaginative genius — the man who is making electric cars mainstream and putting rockets in space. But when...

In America, one out of seven people go hungry every day. For black and Hispanic kids, that number can hit as high as one in three....