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Lena Horne made history this week as the first Black woman to have a Broadway theater named in her honor. The Brooks Atkinson Theatre on West 47th Street, near Broadway in Manhattan’s Theater District, was renamed the Lena Horne Theatre on Tuesday in recognition of the famed performer and civil rights activist. The Lena Horne Theatre seats more than 1,000 people and is one of nine Broadway theaters throughout New York City belonging to the Nederlander Organization. The Lena Horne Theatre was previously named the Brooks Atkinson Theatre and the Mansfield Theatre. Horne won several awards during her career, including two Grammys, in 1982 and 1996, along with a Lifetime Achievement Award in 1989.

☆ Read the 33-page pitch deck that landed the Gen Z founders of a digital résumé for influencers $1 million in funding and Wiz Khalifa as an advisor
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-17 | by ( Jennifer Ortakales Dawkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

MediaKits cofounders Kieran O'Brien and Casey Adams raised $1 million in pre-seed funding last year. MediaKits gives influencers and creators digital résumés that update social metrics in real time. The duo shared their pitch deck, including how they made MediaKits the solution to a problem in their industry. Influencers can send brands their custom MediaKits profiles, which showcase numbers across their Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook accounts. O'Brien and Adams shared their pitch deck with Insider, including how they positioned MediaKits as the solution to a problem in the creator economy and what investors look for.

☆ Why an influencer talent agency just acquired a startup that helps creators make media kits
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( Sydney Bradley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Influencer-marketing and talent agency Viral Nation has acquired creator economy startup MediaKits. MediaKits, which launched in 2021, helps influencers design media kits using real-time social data. Influencer-marketing and talent management agency Viral Nation has acquired creator economy startup MediaKits. Creators often make media kits using software like Canva or Adobe, before sharing them with brands as PDFs. To help make these media kits more up to date and shareable, O'Brien and Adams built a tool that lets creators design media kits with real-time data from platforms like YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok.

☆ Tanium insiders say the $9 billion startup is trying to cozy up to Microsoft and angle itself to be acquired as cost cutting and a market downturn chill hopes for its long-awaited IPO
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-08 | by ( Rosalie Chan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Current and former Tanium employees say the company has been tightening its belt. Tanium had two rounds of job cuts in the past month as internal hopes for its IPO faded. "Plenty of ink has been spilled over the past few months on this topic," a Tanium spokesperson said of its IPO plans. Even so, many rank-and-file employees are skeptical that either an acquisition or IPO will happen, a current employee said. "All well run organizations look for ways to simplify their structures and adapt to meet changing business requirements and industry shifts," the Tanium spokesperson said.

☆ The story of Cookies: How a former Wendy's employee turned a popular weed strain with a controversial name into a $1 billion empire
▼ + stars: | 2022-06-08 | by ( Ben Gilbert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

America's first $1 billion weed brand is here, and it's named Cookies. It's a company that he says is now worth at least $1 billion — the world's first legal $1 billion weed brand. From a logo on a hoodie to a billion-dollar companyThe inside of the Santa Ana, California, Cookies marijuana dispensary. He described this time period, between 2010 and 2018, when the first Cookies retail store opened, as a lengthy learning experience. Though he's repeatedly been offered millions of dollars for his majority stake in Cookies, Berner has thus far refused to sell.

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☆ I saved over $285,000 in my 20s without ever making a budget thanks to a laughably easy strategy I use instead
▼ + stars: | 2019-04-12 | by ( The Money Wizard | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Then, you'll fret and stress for the next several months about whether or not you're sticking to your budget. Instead of struggling through the tedious chore of The Dreaded Budget, I simply write down what I spend. The Budget says there's one day left in the month, and I still have $100 left in my entertainment category. I encourage you to simply track what you're spending for a month or two. Either way, you'll be shocked at how quickly your savings grow when you break the chains of the budget.

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