Bert Rosenblatt is the co-founder of the commercial real estate firm, Vicus Partners. Started in 2007 with a former colleague, Andrew Stein, Vicus Partners now has more than 20 employees and its clients include Mount Sinai Hospital, General Assembly, and…
We tend to associate entrepreneurship with tech startups, but entrepreneurship is so much broader than that. Your local barber (if he owns the business) is an entrepreneur. And so is the lady who just opened that great little Cuban restaurant…
Since the mid-nineties, Daymond John’s company FUBU has cleared over $6 billion in global sales. Perhaps best known as one of the regular cast members of ABC’s Shark Tank, Daymond serves as a living example of a person who pulled…
Ever since Amazon announced on September 7th that it would be accepting proposals in a search for the right city to house its second headquarters, American cities have been throwing themselves at the company like maidens at the prince’s ball…
On Tuesday Night at City Point the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership presented their first Female Founder Pitch Contest as a part of the Make It In Brooklyn partnership, the most recent in a series geared towards connecting Brooklyn's entrepreneurs, startups,…
Kevin Hart is one of the most successful comedians working today. So, what traits have helped him to get to where he is? Today we will examine three of the characteristics that have allowed Kevin Hart to become one…
When many of us think of startups, we think of entrepreneurs intensely focused on their laptops, aiming to build the next Google or Uber – creating digital solutions to problems. Well, some entrepreneurs are working to create good old-fashioned, three-dimensional…
On September 29, at his speech to the International Astronautical Congress in Adelaide Australia, Elon Musk made the shocking claim that he intends to bring commercial terrestrial rocket flights to market in the near future. In an even more…
Most of us in the startup world know about prestigious startup accelerators like Y Combinator, TechStars and 500 Startups. (If you haven’t, read this ). But you may not be familiar with Expa. You won’t find it on lists of…