Made in Italy and handcrafted leather shoes seem to be a synonymous pair. Consumers covet this segment of footwear and accept its steeper price tag—the result of an industry layered with distributors, agents, resellers, and retailers. In walks Velasca, a Milanese startup born in 2013, set out to dis...

We do a reflective practice every morning, that anchors people. Certainly, people come to work sometimes with things that are on their mind that might be happening in their personal lives. And so we feel the really strong need to acknowledge that. So every morning we have a meeting that kind of anch...

People were paying us to put out content. But I saw that lack of direction and I actually decided to let everyone go and redirect what I wanted to do and which is how I ended up with actually creating products because that's what a lot of our customers were asking for. But I was really scared of goi...

Business and romance. How do you feel about that? Jamil: It’s tough to be objective. Many times we might not agree on something and we might not communicate well. We might get our roles mixed up. I might speak to her more like my wife rather than my business partner, so it’d be more of an emotionall...

Roxelle Cho was an active expecting mom who surfed during her pregnancy. As her body was changing, she was inspired to make her own swimwear that had a better fit. From making pieces on a second-hand sewing machine, Roxelle launched Fused Hawaii and built the swimwear brand into a seven-figure busin...