The beauty e-commerce site and subscription service is now valued at $485 million. By Betsy Mikel (Editor, Women 2.0) Of the roughly gazillion online subscriptions services out there, Birchbox has emerged as one of the few that could not only stay afloat, but also...
Birchbox looks to expand their lucrative “try it before you buy it” business model to a physical location that is likely to open in May. By Betsy Mikel (Contributing Writer, Women 2.0) Four years ago, Katia Beauchamp and Hayley Barna, former Harvard Business School...
weeSpring’s co-founder explains what it took to get into über-competitive TechStars. By Allyson Downey (CEO & Co-founder, weeSpring) A year ago, when weeSpring was just an idea sketched out on a couple PowerPoint slides, a friend suggested we apply to this...
By 2018, women-owned businesses in the U.S. will generate a third of new jobs. By Leah Eichler (Contributing Writer, Femme-O-Nomics) When I decided to leave the world of the gainfully employed to launch my own company, I may have suffered from a selective attention...
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Birchbox announced today they raised $10.5M to continue product development and possibly branch into other verticals. Birchbox was founded by Hayley Barna and Katia Beauchamp, Harvard Business School grads...