CONNECTOR BRIEFS
For our August focus on up-and-coming Entrepreneurs, we start with author and documentary filmmaker John de Graaf on finding the right work-life balance as artists and business owners.
Manny Frishberg and Patricia Vaccarino interview Native American businesswoman Lael Echo-Hawk on her heroic efforts to bring broadband internet access to Indian Country in Washington state.
Contributor Dean Landsman writes about the dire need for digital strategy at many startups, and warnss against being too enamored of the latest "Next Big Thing" before locking down the fundamentals.
Our L.A. correspondent Brittany “Bella” Graham analyzes the one common experience shared by entrepreneurs and educators — attention from groupies — and gives tips on how to elude their smothering embrace.
We also get input from very young entrepreneurs, such as Darren Yuet, who writes eloquently about how many of today's budding entrepreneurs are being discouraged from following their dreams in high school as their parents push them to "succeed" in more traditonal careers.
The Connector also introduces writer Rut Einarsdottir, of Iceland, who is studying business in Japan. In this issue she describes a unique Innovation Dojo in Japan that encourages new ideas.
In one of our Q&A stories, Chanel Harper and Julia James, founders of NYC-based customizable menswear brand Laboratory, describe how they followed through on their vision to change the way men shop for clothes and find the perfect fit.