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Building a Business

How Cherishing Mistakes, Being Clueless and Stress Fests Helped Birchbox’s Success

The founders of hugely successful beauty-subscription service Birchbox find strength in not having all the answers. For our series If I Knew Then, here are a few lessons and pieces of advice from Hayley Barna and Katia Beauchamp.

By Nina Zipkin

Building a Business

Should You Launch a Subscription-Commerce Business?

By David Rekuc

Business Operations & Logistics

Graze.com Wants to Send You Boxes of Healthy Snacks for $6 a Pop

By Catherine Clifford

Marketing

How to Improve the Success of a Membership Program

By Dave Lavinsky

Building a Business

Jessica Alba’s Startup Nabs $25 Million in Funding

Subscription-commerce business The Honest Company has just closed a round of funding for expansion and growth.

By Andrea Huspeni

Building a Business

From Chickens to Caskets — 8 Unique Rental Businesses

People have been renting movies and cars for years, but what about borrowing a wedding dress? Here's a look at the innovative and bizarre things that can be yours for a short time.

By Kathleen Davis

Online Presence

Heads Up Music Lovers: YouTube to Create Streaming Music Service

With free on-demand mobile streaming and its own offline mode, YouTube could put Spotify on the defensive.

By Benjamin Kabin