Nick Hawkins

Jan 14, 2025 | inc.com | Nick Hawkins

“It’s fucking insane,” David Whitman says of the current conditions in LA—and he’s not just talking about the fires that have been raging for more than a week. He’s also talking about the influx of orders for his startup’s macgyvered firefighting solution—Engine 51—which lets homeowners use the water from their swimming pools to defend their homes against encroaching fires.

Dec 25, 2024 | inc.com | Nick Hawkins

Food businesses are used to thriving amidst uncertainty. The last four years in particular have been a real bear, with the pandemic, labor shortages, rising costs and inflation. So we asked some of the fastest-growing food businesses on our Inc. 5000 list what they’re doing to prepare for another year of potential question marks. The answer? More of the same: Prepare for the worst and hope for the best.

Dec 5, 2024 | businessandamerica.com | Nick Hawkins

Marc Lore, founder of Wonder and serial entrepreneur, shares critical factors for startup growth, including the importance of vision, capital, and people. Source link

Dec 5, 2024 | inc.com | Nick Hawkins

In the past 25 years, serial entrepreneur Marc Lore has built and sold four successful businesses. You might say Lore knows a thing or two about building and selling businesses. More recently, he founded the restaurant-kitchen and delivery concept Wonder. Before Wonder, Lore built and sold Diapers.com to Amazon in 2011 for $550 million and then built and sold e-commerce powerhouse Jet.com to Walmart in 2016 for $3.3 billion.

Nov 29, 2024 | inc.com | Nick Hawkins

Each of these former Starbucks employees set out to change the way people drink coffee. Here’s how they’re doing it. BY NICK HAWKINS, ASSISTANT WEB PRODUCER @NICKHAWKINSNYCNOV 29, 2024Illustration by Lucy JonesWhat makes a great cup of coffee? If you ask five people, you’ll likely get five different answers. In any given coffee shop, you’ll find latte lovers, pour-over princesses, cold-brew queens, and even the odd unicorn frappe fanatic.