Blue Sky Partners

If your small business fails to qualify for a bank loan — or you've already been denied one — you may have to think outside the box and go with...

Ever since I found my purpose in life, I like to tell many folks that I feel like Superman. As soon as my eyes open every morning, an extreme sense...

You've got a secure, high-paying job at a fast-growing tech company, but maybe you're tired of working for a corporation, of the commute, the office politics, foosball Fridays. You just...

"You gotta catch the wave," says John Mackey of Whole Foods. "If there's no wave, you can't surf." Before there was Whole Foods, there was Safer Way, John Mackey's first...

In February 2008, four MBA candidates at the Wharton School of business wondered: Why weren't glasses sold online? It wasn't a completely random thought. One of them, Neil Blumenthal, had...

Raising money to start a small business has become easier with equity crowdfunding. That's when you publicly tap a big pool of investors who agree to finance your small business...

I left the first company that I founded. My co-founder and I had different values and, without realizing it, we created two disconnected cultures within the same company. This is...

Kids and budding entrepreneurs have something in common. Much of what every kid would ideally learn in school is, in part, a working familiarity with the same attitudes, approaches and...

A Change of Plans The world came close to being without a Shake Shack or Gramercy Tavern; Danny Meyer almost became a lawyer. In the early '80s, after he had...