Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurs

Nurses are breaking the mold to set out on their own

Tech platform Hydreight wants to help nurses go into business for themselves by being a turnkey solution.

B. David Zarley

Business

From CDs to NFTs: Starbucks’ surprising history of embracing new tech

Starbucks’ newly-announced blockchain platform is just the latest example of the chain’s early embracement of tech.

B. David Zarley

Inventions

This company turns food waste and mushrooms into building materials

UK-based company Biohm uses natural vegetative material like food waste and mushrooms to ‘grow’ insulation panels.

Victoria Masterson

Sustainability

This start-up is recycling abandoned wooden homes in Baltimore

The Baltimore Wood Project salvages wood from buildings to repurpose and resell locally to create a circular economy.

Natalie Marchant

Psychology

Procrastinating is linked to health and career problems – but here’s how you can stop

In the long run, procrastination isn’t an effective way of managing emotions and causes health and work setbacks.

Fuschia Sirois

Business

New industries are embracing apprenticeships

Eschewing costly college degrees, earn-and-learn apprenticeship programs are pushing into new industries.

B. David Zarley

Entrepreneurs

The 5-hour rule: How to turn a wasted day into a successful one

The 5-hour rule asks us to devote at least one hour a day to learning, experimenting, and reflecting. Here's how to make it work for you.

Jonny Thomson

Food

Massive vertical mushroom farm opens in New York

Alt-meat startup MyForest Food has opened a new vertical mushroom farm in New York.

B. David Zarley

How Daybreaker turned “sober morning raves” into a worldwide movement

In partnership with Million Stories

What started as a side project among friends quickly grew into a multimillion-dollar business.

Freethink Team

Entrepreneurs

Digital nomad: why work from home if you can work from anywhere in the world?

Digital nomad visas make it easier than ever for remote workers to live in foreign countries for extended periods of time.

Tim Brinkhof

How one deaf entrepreneur turned rejection into a profit

In partnership with Million Stories

Melody Stein created a top-notch pizza joint that offered the Deaf community a rare dining luxury: instant communication.

Freethink Team

Entrepreneurs

A world map of start-up ambitions

In New Zealand, ambitious Kiwis want to launch a lawn mowing business; in South Africa, it's cooking gas refills. Start-up dreams vary widely.

Frank Jacobs

Citizen Science

A nun built a hydroelectric plant that’s providing free power to a town in Africa

Blackouts are a daily disruption in the country, which sources most of its electricity from a run-down and mismanaged hydropower system.

Reuters Staff | World Economic Forum

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