Advertising: Have Your Job and Moonlight, Too

Ad agencies add side projects to tap the entrepreneurial spirit of employees who have creative energy to spare.

    



Tech Start-Up Benefits from ABC’s ‘Shark Tank’

Technology entrepreneurs turned down a “Shark Tank” investor after taping the show’s finale, but their translation business benefited from the exposure.

    

Conversations: Dollar Shave Club, From Viral Video to Real Business

Dollar Shave Club took 12,000 orders for its subscription razor service in the first two days after a promotional video it released went viral.

    

Nick D’Aloisio, 17, Sells Summly App to Yahoo

Nick D’Aloisio, a programming whiz who wasn’t even born when Yahoo was founded in 1994, sold his news-reading app, Summly, to Yahoo.