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☆ 2023’s Most Coveted Kitchen Is Superexpensive. Here’s How to Get the Look for Less
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-15 | by ( Sarah Karnasiewicz | Photographs Andrew Bui For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

TA-TA, soulless stainless ranges. Cheerio, monolithic marble islands. A few years back, a new status kitchen—imported primarily via a pair of posh British outfits called Plain English and deVOL—surfaced stateside. Modeled loosely on the below-stairs service kitchens once found on grand estates, it quickly found a cult following for its homely hallmarks: pared-back Georgian cabinetry in moody colors, from chalky green to dishrag pink; studiously aged taps and cupboard latches; commodious “larders” in which to corral microwaves and other conspicuously 21st-century appliances; open shelving where vintage copper pots rub shoulders with ancestral oil paintings. Think of it as the “old-money look” for kitchens.

☆ I sell used sneakers on Goat to pay for new pairs to add to my collection. Here's how to guarantee a sale on the resale platform.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-10 | by ( Danni Santana | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

I've sold shoes in person and on Poshmark, but my favorite platform to sell sneakers is Goat. I have sold shoes in person and on Poshmark over the past year, but my favorite platform to sell sneakers is Goat. The company even authenticates all used shoes, in addition to new, which gives buyers more confidence they are not buying replica pairs. But I'm keeping my options open, especially if StockX begins to allow the sale of used shoes. The platform offers an easy way to sell shoes quickly that you barely wear or have buyer's remorse over.

☆ Clarence Thomas' benefactor, the billionaire megadonor Harlan Crow, has a collection of Hitler artifacts and Nazi memorabilia: report
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-08 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Clarence Thomas benefactor Harlan Crow has an art collection that includes Nazi memorabilia, the Washingtonian reported. A bombshell ProPublica report revealed that Thomas had taken undisclosed trips funded by Crow for more than 20 years. "I still can't get over the collection of Nazi memorabilia," an individual who has remained anonymous and who attended an event at Crow's home told the magazine. When the Morning News reporter finally saw the garden of dictator statues, Crow described it as an acknowledgment of the inhumanity that some men have shown to others. The news of Crow's collection comes after a bombshell ProPublica report, which detailed how Thomas has taken luxury vacations funded by the megadonor for more than 20 years without disclosing the excursions.

☆ Want to start a side hustle and earn extra money? Here's how to launch a lucrative business and bring in six figures.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-23 | by ( Alexandra York | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Like many people during the pandemic, Davis reallocated the time she'd typically spent commuting home to building her side hustle. Davis' handbag company netted $14,000 in sales in its first four months in business, which Insider verified with documentation. Another entrepreneur, Lisa Andrea, regularly books $8,000 in revenue a month from her side hustle, The Financial Cookbook, which Insider also verified with documentation. Andrea started The Financial Cookbook, an online financial-coaching company, to earn extra income and try entrepreneurship part time before taking the plunge. Leveraging expertise, as Andrea did with financial coaching, is one way entrepreneurs can start a side hustle and balance risk versus reward.

☆ The Hotel Cabanas That Cost More Than Most Rooms
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-08 | by ( Dawn Gilbertson | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The priciest item on your next hotel bill might not be the room but a posh slice of poolside shade and privacy. Cabanas, those curtained-off retreats with TVs, padded lounge chairs, couches, trendy sunscreen and other perks, are fetching eye-popping prices as the travel boom stokes demand. Vacationers are shelling out for them, hoteliers say, often because they are still splurging on all things travel to make up for getaways put off in recent years.

☆ The unraveling of fintech darling Vise
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-03 | by ( Stephanie Palazzolo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +28 min

It was April, and more than two dozen salespeople who worked for the fintech startup Vise had been ordered to a multiday off-site at the W Hoboken hotel in New Jersey to share exhaustive reports on their performance. Even salespeople at bigger, established, top-tier investment-management firms typically wouldn't close $250 million in a year, multiple sales employees said. (K-means clustering is an unsupervised machine-learning algorithm often referred to as a form of AI, Vise's founders said). (Vise's founders disputed this, saying the company received updated financial data only once a day for its portfolio-construction engine.) And to address its "leaky funnel" of overestimating prospective sales, Vise was to stop outreach to new clients while it onboards and upsells to existing clients, the document said.

☆ New: LAPD Officer Rashad Sharif Discovers A Murder Scene
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-02 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailNew: LAPD Officer Rashad Sharif Discovers A Murder SceneAs LAPD Officer Rashad Sharif is called to check on a home in posh Benedict Canyon with the back door left open, he is shocked when he happens upon a murder scene and a victim with Las Vegas Mafia connections. Blood & Money premieres Tuesday, March 7 at 10pm ET on CNBC.

☆ I started selling shoes on Goat to fund my sneaker addiction. Here's why I prefer it to Poshmark despite the high fees.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-28 | by ( Danni Santana | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

I started reselling used sneakers in the summer of 2022 to more easily afford my sneaker addiction. In other words, I started monetizing my used sneaker collection for extra cash to buy new shoes. But I'm keeping my options open, especially if StockX begins to allow the sale of used shoes. I'll certainly take advantage of their periodic promotions on seller fees that I've seen be up to 50% off in the past. The platform offers an easy way to sell shoes quickly that you barely wear or have buyer's remorse over.

☆ Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk have been publicly criticizing each other for years — but now Meta is mirroring Twitter
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-25 | by ( Hallam Bullock | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

With the launch of Meta Verified, Mark Zuckerberg is appearing more like Elon Musk by the day. Now, let's look at why people are starting to say that Zuckerberg "idolizes Elon Musk." With the announcement of Meta Verified, Meta's new verification subscription service for Facebook and Instagram, many have drawn comparisons between Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk. Schilsky added: "I think it's clear that Mark Zuckerberg idolizes Elon Musk." Black VCs like Beta Boom's Kimmy Paluch are addressing long-standing diversity, equity, and inclusion issues in the industry head-on.

☆ A former MoviePass exec has been arrested and charged with wire fraud and money laundering, the third to be indicted in recent months
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-23 | by ( Jason Guerrasio | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A former MoviePass exec was arrested Tuesday on allegations that he embezzled $260,000 from its former parent company. Khalid Itum was charged with two counts of wire fraud and two counts of money laundering. According to the indictment, Itum, 42, registered the Los Angeles-based company Kaleidoscope Productions LLC in 2017 that provided production and marketing services. Itum was arrested by the FBI and has been charged with two counts of wire fraud and two counts of money laundering. In November, Farnsworth and Lowe were charged in a securities fraud case by the Department of Justice on one count of securities fraud and three counts of wire fraud.

☆ If you want a side hustle reselling clothing on Poshmark, start by learning the important lingo
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-22 | by ( Jennifer Ortakales Dawkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Reselling clothes and items on Poshmark can be a lucrative job or business for some users. For example, sellers can gain higher statuses as stylists or ambassadors when they promote other sellers' listings. Poshmark members, or "poshers," use a lot of phrases you may not understand if you're new to the community. ClosetA closet is a Poshmark seller's online store where they list items for sale. Users can share images and 15-second videos with their followers, similar to other apps like Instagram and Snapchat.

☆ How entrepreneurs can use livestream shopping to make thousands of dollars
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-22 | by ( Jennifer Ortakales Dawkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +16 min

Live shopping in the US is expected to become a $25 billion market in 2023. Livestream shopping has been popular in China for over a decade, where the industry was estimated to be worth $305 billion in 2021, up from $63 billion in 2019, according to Coresight Research. Virgile Ollivier, a cofounder and the CEO of Livescale, told Insider livestream shopping would soon become just as important for brands as social-media marketing. Livestream-shopping platforms pick up where Instagram falls shortApps focused solely on livestream shopping show a disconnect on traditional social-media platforms. Most sellers livestream at least once a week, at the same time so their followers always know when to expect a show.

☆ Tech companies spoiled workers for decades. Now layoffs are bringing them down to Earth.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-20 | by ( Asia Martin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

The tech sector has already cut nearly 100,000 jobs this year. But for tech workers who were sold on the glamorous lifestyle these companies have provided over the last few decades, this is a blow to their self-image. It's unfortunate, Govindarajan said, but he added that these tech companies have disrupted other industries like photography, automobiles, and department stores. "There are many industries the tech sector disrupted where people got laid off. But now it's the turn of the tech sector itself," he told Insider.

☆ Tracy Anderson's ex-trainers said their bodies were 'breaking apart' while working for the fitness icon
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-18 | by ( Katie Warren | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Tracy Anderson charges members $900 a month to workout at her studios in LA and New York. Her former trainers said teaching in the 95-degree studios for at least four hours a day could be grueling. Members in the US pay $900 a month to learn the "Tracy Anderson Method," a dance-based workout in a room heated to 95 degrees with 75% humidity. That all sounds cool, and it also sounds like you're going to get paid pretty well," one former New York trainer said. Another former trainer said her body "was just breaking apart," adding that she quit because of the physical demands of the job.

☆ Inside Tracy Anderson's cutthroat fitness empire: Legal threats, paranoia, and trainers who say their bodies were 'breaking apart'
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-16 | by ( Katie Warren | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +29 min

One day around 2015, a dozen or so gift boxes showed up at the Brentwood, California, studio of the celebrity fitness trainer Tracy Anderson. "It was an exclusive boutique fitness studio," the former New York trainer said. Darren Gerrish/WireImageThe method demanded that TA trainers, most of whom were also professional dancers, perform the strenuous workouts full out, every time. Let's help you do it correctly so you don't get injured,'" the former New York trainer said. "This is at a time where everyone is already overworked," one of the former New York trainers said.

☆ ‘Unscripted’ Review: Sex, Lies and Viacom
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-14 | by ( Edward Kosner | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Sumner Redstone, who died in 2020 at the age of 97, was one of the killer whales thriving in the swirling currents of the modern media. A hulking old man with dyed red hair and a maimed right hand, he was a mega-billionaire with a ravenous appetite for power, riches—and sex. At his peak at the turn of the century, he controlled Viacom; Paramount Pictures; the National Amusements movie-theater chain; the CBS network, MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon; and the Simon & Schuster publishing house. Then the end came in a crescendo of recrimination, litigation and family turmoil. Imagine a mash-up of “King Lear” and “Weekend at Bernie’s,” the 1989 movie comedy about two scamps who prop up a cadaver so they can enjoy a weekend at his beach house, with Redstone starring in both title roles.

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☆ A tiny-home startup has attracted 160,000 customers, including Elon Musk. But disgruntled customers, an empty factory, and a tie to an alleged Iranian agent cloud its future.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-06 | by ( Daniel Geiger | Alex Nicoll | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +17 min

A Boxabl Casita being delivered to a SpaceX facility in Texas. Tackling the US housing crisisStamped out on an assembly line, Boxabl homes could finally begin to help quench America's perpetual housing shortage. Homeowners, meanwhile, could rent out Boxabl units as secondary dwellings in their backyards or as Airbnbs. Firooznia, Tiramani said, sometimes provided a tiebreaking vote when the father and son disagreed on business decisions. During a tour of Boxabl's factory in December, a freelance reporter for Insider saw Tiramani's wife, Shauna, arrive with their four young children.

☆ Japan launches whale meat vending machines to promote sales
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-28 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

“As a result, many consumers who want to eat it cannot find or buy whale meat. Kashiwabara says she is aware of the whaling controversy but that whale meat brings back her childhood memories of eating it at family dinners and school lunches. But whale meat is part of Japanese food culture and we can respect the lives of whales by appreciating their meat,” Kashiwabara said. Still, conservative governing lawmakers staunchly support commercial whaling and consumption of the meat as part of Japan’s cultural tradition. Conservationists say whale meat is no longer part of the daily diet in Japan, especially for younger generations.

☆ Twelve rescued after building collapses in India; more feared trapped
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-24 | by ( Saurabh Sharma | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/4] Police officers and rescue workers stand on the debris of a residential apartment block after it collapsed in Lucknow, India, January 24, 2023. REUTERS/Saurabh SharmaLUCKNOW, India, Jan 24 (Reuters) - Rescue workers pulled 12 people, including two children, out of the rubble after a residential apartment block collapsed in the northern Indian city of Lucknow, but more were feared trapped inside, a local police official said on Tuesday. At least 12 more people were feared trapped, the official said, as rescue workers sought to clear rubble and debris from the site, located in a crowded and posh area of Lucknow, the capital of India's most populous state of Uttar Pradesh. Television channels showed piles of brick and concrete and police teams clearing the rubble to search for survivors. A total of 24 people were feared trapped when the building collapsed, Chauhan said.

☆ The Wordle of real estate is here. Can you guess a home's asking price?
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-13 | by ( Dan Latu | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Users get six tries to guess the asking price of a house, which Weitzbuch selects by hand daily. Your real estate prowess can finally be put to the test with Housle, a new daily game created by Los Angeles reality-TV producer Doug Weitzbuch. Modeled after Wordle, the massively popular game where users guess a five-letter word of the day, Housle tests you on the asking prices of homes for sale. Echoing Wordle's six guesses, Housle gives users six tries to predict the listing price of a house from any part of the country. Weitzbuch is also an avid Wordle player, sharing his daily score with four friends in a group chat dubbed "Wordle Nerdles."

☆ Banks' war against fintechs is a battle they're destined to lose
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-06 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

And while this shouldn't bother banks — they make plenty of money doing what they do best — this is Wall Street. In fact, the face of Wall Street, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon, literally declared war on fintechs on an earnings call in 2021. But, as Insider's Bianca Chan and Reed Alexander recently outlined in a fantastic feature, banks' bid to topple fintechs is hopeless. Whether it's JPMorgan's digital-only bank Finn or, more recently, Goldman Sachs' Marcus, banks' attempt to cosplay as fintechs rarely ends well. Click here to read more about why banks are doomed to keep failing in their fight against fintechs.

☆ The gourmet food scene in the UAE is taking on the likes of Paris, New York and London
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-30 | by ( Emma Procter | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — While the economic outlook for much of the world is predicted to be rocky over 2023, in the Gulf there's a buoyant mood. This is especially true for the United Arab Emirates, with the country's economy growing by more than 6% this year, according to the International Monetary Fund. For a few nights only, well-heeled guests sampled creations such as pan-fried squid with black garlic, Paris mushrooms and rocket. Michelin chiefs agree, saying that the UAE is now on par with the big global gourmet destinations such as Paris, New York, Singapore, and London. "We would say the restaurants in the Michelin Guide selection in the UAE are equal to the big cities."

☆ 'The White Lotus' season finale review: 'Arrivederci' says goodbye to a brilliant second season (SPOILERS)
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-11 | by ( Brian Lowry | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers about “The White Lotus” season finale, “Arrivederci.”CNN —It started with floating bodies, and finally brought home its various threads with a sly nod to the fact that the sex in this visit to “The White Lotus” tended to be transactional. In between, the second installment proved almost as engrossing, uncomfortable and meme-worthy as its Emmy-winning predecessor, which is no small accomplishment for writer-director Mike White. Tanya, however, wasn’t the only character being manipulated for money or advantage, which is what connected the show’s various threads. Discovery), but thanks to “The White Lotus,” it’s home to one of the best things on television, and as anthology-style concepts go, potentially one of the most durable. So now that everyone obsessed with the show has said “Arrivederci” to Sicily, the only real question is, “Where are we going next?”

☆ Before Herschel Walker announced his Georgia Senate bid, a law firm hired by GOP consultants compiled a 500-page dossier on him with potentially damaging information: report
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-11 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

GOP consultants hired a law firm to conduct research on Walker before his Senate run, per NBC News. The firm compiled a 500-page dossier on Walker, which contained potentially problematic issues. Walker and his wife believed that his goodwill among Georgians would blunt negative attacks on him. But Walker and his current wife, Julie Blanchard Walker, weren't discouraged by the report. The result made Walker the only statewide Republican candidate to lose their race in Georgia this year.

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