Jocelyn Elizabeth was a new mom working part-time as a marketing administrator when her dad brought home a $5 lamp from a church yard sale in Dillsburg, Pennsylvania. It was 2011, Elizabeth says. Though the lamp wasn’t fancy or new, her dad was sure he’d made a good investment, and found a cleaned-up version of…
Caroline McDavid and her husband started South Carolina-based franchise business Juiced Fuel in 2022 to take that pesky stop at the gas station out of people’s day. They’ll come to you, top off your tank, and be on their way. There’s no real estate involved, no fancy office space, or hiring fairs to contend with….
Paris Hilton is successful many times over. The reality TV star turned entrepreneur is the founder and CEO of 11:11 Media, a global entertainment company she aims to become “the next Disney” that combines her passions in music, beauty, fashion and philanthropy. But people haven’t always believed in her business savvy. “For a long time,…
Ms Jo Malone CBE, British perfumer and founder of fragrance brands Jo Malone London and Jo Loves. Mike Green, CNBC British entrepreneur and famed perfumer Ms Jo Malone CBE has opened up about her rough upbringing and how becoming her family’s breadwinner at 11-years-old sowed the first seeds of entrepreneurship. Malone, the founder of successful fragrance brands…
If I tell you that I’m a successful entrepreneur who runs a thriving business, you might picture an always-on founder who works late into the night and regularly puts in overtime. But I’ve built up sustainable passive income streams and work just four hours a day. As a content creator, I make videos about productivity…
Kai Yang Chan (left) and JiaYi Zhou (right) run Singapore-based bakery Cake Inspiration. Courtesy of Cake Inspiration When Kai Yang Chan and Jiayi Zhuo matched on Tinder at age 19, neither of them expected that it would lead to marriage. Six years later, not only have they tied the knot — they’re also business partners….
Desmond Lim, co-founder and CEO of Workstream. Courtesy of Desmond Lim It’s often said that “there’s no such thing as balance” in entrepreneurship, but startup founder Desmond Lim disagrees. The CEO and co-founder of Workstream, a HR, payroll and hiring platform for hourly workers, says that balance isn’t just possible — it’s also necessary. Running…
This report is from this week’s CNBC’s “Inside India” newsletter, which brings you timely, insightful news and market commentary on the emerging powerhouse. Subscribe here. The big story Aarushi Kilawat is a fashion entrepreneur from India’s Jaipur, a small city with less than 5 million residents — a far cry from Indian metropolises like Mumbai, Delhi…
One quality separates the most successful business owners from all others, according to billionaire Jimmy John Liautaud: They work really, really hard. In that vein, the 61-year-old founder and former chairman of the Jimmy John’s sandwich chain doesn’t believe in work-life balance, he said in a TikTok video posted by The School of Hardknocks on…
When Rick Senko started re-selling used items on eBay, he was “flat broke” — a recently unemployed single father who was desperate to earn enough money to support his 5-year-old son. That was 2008, and the first item he sold — a cell phone he bought for $35 on Craigslist and flipped on eBay for…
