Global Game
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Why students and teachers like the ClassDojo App
By listening to its core audience—teachers—ClassDojo's educational software has reached 90 percent of US schools. Now the real work begins: How to get someone to pay for it
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How NBA plans to popularise basketball in India
Pro basketball's Asian appeal is obvious, but it struggles to seed NBA talent here
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Why Mexico is reliable for investors, despite Trump
Trump's incendiary tweets against Mexico are music to the ears of BlackRock's intrepid emerging-market portfolio manager Gerardo Rodriguez
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Jamie Kern Lima wants to turn IT into the world's largest beauty brand
Former news anchor Jamie Kern Lima began testing makeup a decade ago to help cover her red, blotchy skin. That experimentation led to the creation of IT Cosmetics, which L'Oréal snapped up in 2016 for $1.2 billion. Now she's plotting to turn IT into the largest beauty brand in the world
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America's richest self-made women
Check out Forbes's ranking of the country's most successful women entrepreneurs and executives as measured by their net worths
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Carolyn Rafaelian: The bangle billionaire
By turning what women wear on their wrists into an affinity statement, Carolyn Rafaelian has grown the hippie brand Alex and Ani into a $1 billion company. Now America's richest jeweller is working on world domination—and maybe an IPO
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The Wizards from Oz
Enterprise software giants use armies of salespeople to hawk imperfect products and endless updates. The two Australian billionaires behind Atlassian have built smarter tools that sell themselves. Just ask Tesla, Snapchat, NASA and the entire Ivy League
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Child of the pledge
Ted Stanley made a fortune on knickknacks, then promised it to medical research on mental illness. His son is bird-dogging that commitment. And, yes, it's personal
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TrueMotion's mobile app can tell if you are texting while driving
Brad Cordova had deeply personal reasons to start a company to combat distracted driving and tap into the new market for data-driven insurance
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Starting over
Successful but speeding toward obsolescence, FreshBooks desperately needed to reinvent its online accounting service. It was almost as if it had to start an entirely new company
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Can Craigslist be killed?
Two well-funded startups are battling to build a smartphone-based alternative to Craigslist, the 22-year-old online dinosaur that's been a cash machine for founder and newly minted billionaire Craig Newmark