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Feb 18, 2013

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Alice Cheng is the founder and president of Culinary Agents, an online professional network for matching qualified talent with job opportunities in the food & beverage industry. Prior to founding the company, she'd spent 13 years at IBM, in positions focused on strategy, sales, business development and transformation. Then, through different walks of life with...

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Feb 11, 2013

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I'm reasonably sure that anyone who keeps up with Benjamin Meadows-Ingram feels like an underachiever almost all of the time. We happened to attend a few classes together in college, and even at that time, he was holding down cover stories for nationwide music publications. Which helps explain how he became a Contributing Editor at...

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Feb 04, 2013

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I first met Stephen Johnston and Katy Fike of Aging2.0 last year at the Silicon Valley Boomer Summit, introduced via our incubee company, Omhu. Struck by their passion to build a network of innovators to address needs of the mature market, I was impressed with the both the depth of conversations being induced as well...

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Jan 28, 2013

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I got to meet SLVDR founder and creative director Rob Myers several years ago. They'd recently launched the brand, and thanks to the SLVDR team's solid background in technical snow gear, they were already off to a great start, creating their own subtle, yet innovative variations on classic men's pieces, sparing no attention to detail....

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Jan 14, 2013

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Jamie Strong has played key roles at some of the best indie record labels in the country, for well over a decade now. With five years at Ubiquity Records, followed by five more at LA's own Stones Throw Records, Jamie was in the perfect place to co-found Innovative Leisure, a new LA-based label. 2013 promises...

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Jan 07, 2013

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Frederick Guerrero's family has been rooted in the Glassell Park area of Los Angeles since the 1950s. His father emigrated from the Philippines and worked in the food industry for 35 years, gaining valuable experience in every aspect of the game. Fred has been working for the family business since 2003. At the moment, that...

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Dec 17, 2012

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We’ve been lucky enough to interview many-a-fascinating creative here on the ICL website, and this week is no exception! Toronto-based artist and creative powerhouse Allister Lee took on the name Black is Beautiful / BIB as an umbrella for the many personal projects he was involved in, way back in about 2004. The newly launched Black is Beautiful is...

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Nov 26, 2012

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In 2007, Al Moran was burned out after a decade in the printing game, and future business partner Aaron Bondaroff was looking for new avenues to explore too. The two put their heads together, leveraged their impressive mutual networks, and created a space called OHWOW. Initially, it was just that; a platform, a creative space....

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Nov 19, 2012

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I ran into Jillian Tamaki a couple weekends ago while perusing the aisles of independent comics publishers at The Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival, accompanied by comics party majority whip, Tom Spurgeon (aka The Comics Reporter). We met respectively, the way most people do in antediluvian industries such as the print book trade: through our blogs....

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Nov 12, 2012

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Rob Walker is a talented writer, with an incredibly impressive output, and across a wide array of media, no less. A longtime contributor to The New York Times, 55 of his "Consumed" columns are currently available as an e-book from Amazon. He is also a regular columnist for Design Observer, and he also runs his...