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How Dakota Krout turned his side gig as a fantasy author into a multi-million dollar self-publishing Amazon business

Author Dakota Krout’s side gig writing fantasy novels took off after he self-published his books on Amazon. Now he runs his own publishing firm. Here’s his advice for aspiring writers looking to use Amazon to its fullest potential.

Ivan De Luce

5.14.21 1:30 PM in Video

This week in Business Twitter: Elon Musk breaks with Bitcoin, Peter Thiel’s Reddit AMA, and why crypto is bad for the planet

Ivan De Luce

5.14.21 8:00 PM

Here are the targeted websites where employers are scooping up post-pandemic job-hunters

Andrew Hirschfeld

5.13.21 7:13 PM

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Why journalist Camila Russo left Bloomberg to found The Defiant, a media startup covering decentralized finance

Danny Konstantinovic

5.12.21 12:00 PM

Markets

Danny Konstantinovic

You're running out of time to move to New York City

Rent in New York is about to go back up.

After regaining consumer trust, Jessica Alba’s Honest Company is going public at a $1.5 billion valuation. Here’s everything you need to know.

Ivan De Luce

5.3.21 7:00 PM

A federal judge is threatening XRP fans with criminal charges if they post SEC hearings to YouTube, Twitch

Christie Smythe

4.30.21 6:10 PM

Crocs shares are surging 16% amid record Q1 sales and sold out Lightning McQueen shoes

Ivan De Luce

4.27.21 9:00 PM

Airlines are finally adding jobs — but will enough passengers want to fly?

Christie Smythe

4.23.21 4:23 PM

Richard Branson's 23andMe bid is a bet on a genetic testing renaissance

Ivan De Luce

4.23.21 3:00 PM

Tech

Danny Konstantinovic

The most lucrative games of tomorrow will let you make your own

Unity and Roblox's success have set off a user-generated content arms race in the games industry. Now, Nintendo is getting in on it.

Why you're being followed by a high-end dandruff shampoo — the savvy ways DTC firms market themselves online

Christie Smythe

5.4.21 7:56 PM

Epic's battle with Apple over #FreeFortnite is going to be ugly

Danny Konstantinovic

5.4.21 3:00 PM

Revel is launching a Tesla rideshare program — and its drivers won’t be gig workers

Ivan De Luce

4.28.21 8:00 PM

Coinbase, now valued at $85 billion, has gone public. Here’s what you need to know.

Ivan De Luce

4.14.21 3:00 PM

Google is leading the way in Big Tech's hiring (and real estate) boom

Julia Gray

3.30.21 5:00 PM

Innovation

Karen Fischer

How 3 indie cosmetic company founders are upending mainstream beauty

These three founders saw opportunity in the beauty industry's flaws.

These sex tech startup founders are mixing data with pleasure

Rebecca Aydin

4.15.21 2:00 PM

Forget NFTs! Emoji-based crypto links are selling for hundreds of thousands of dollars

Joon Ian Wong

5.5.21 11:00 AM

"Is it working?" Does it matter? Functional mushrooms and CBD thrived during the pandemic

Lucy Dean Stockton

3.25.21 8:00 PM

How hard seltzer became the alcohol industry’s party trick

Julia Gray , Jael Goldfine

3.23.21 6:00 PM

The business of dating apps: How do swipes actually make money?

Jael Goldfine

3.1.21 5:15 PM

Features

How Glossier went from makeup blog to industry-changing DTC superstar

The brand sold an aesthetic that reshaped the beauty industry, but has its influence peaked?

The enduring mystery of digital money and Dogecoin: Explained

Joon Ian Wong

4.30.21 6:00 PM

The Founders Index: Tracking the wealth of tech's top entrepreneurs

Ivan De Luce

4.16.21 1:00 PM

How Oatly went from foodie fad to $10 billion IPO

Jael Goldfine

4.13.21 5:30 PM

Meet the New York founders disrupting a 4,000-year-old industry and taking on "Big Spice"

Nina Roberts

3.26.21 9:20 PM

People

Ivan De Luce

After a $4.1 million auction, Mad Dog Jones is NFT royalty

Mad Dog Jones sold an NFT for $4.1 million at Phillips last month, a first for the auction house. It’s a sign of the coming wave of NFTs becoming part of mainstream art.

Iterable, which allegedly fired CEO Justin Zhu for “microdosing” LSD, was chasing 580% YOY growth

Christie Smythe

4.28.21 8:03 PM

An inside look at Future, the $150-per-month fitness app that promises to hold you accountable

Ivan De Luce

4.12.21 7:00 PM

Silicon Valley didn’t support this Texas FinTech founder, but here's how he still raised $13 million

As told to Stav Dimitropoulos

4.12.21 4:30 PM

Vice Ventures wants good companies in "bad" industries

Julia Gray

1.6.21 8:00 PM

How this MIT graduate built a billion dollar hedge fund while dodging the FBI

Danny Konstantinovic

7.2.20 5:00 PM

Videos

Austin Rief: How Morning Brew went from college newsletter to $75 million in 5 years

Morning Brew co-founder Austin Rief talks about his startup journey, who he wouldn't have sold the business to, and where the future of digital media is headed.

Danny Konstantinovic

3.18.21 12:00 PM

How Dakota Krout turned his side gig as a fantasy author into a multi-million dollar self-publishing Amazon business

Ivan De Luce

5.14.21 1:30 PM

Why journalist Camila Russo left Bloomberg to found The Defiant, a media startup covering decentralized finance

Danny Konstantinovic

5.12.21 12:00 PM

Why a founder who lost six figures on a startup told the world about her failure

Christie Smythe

5.11.21 4:06 PM

Social media tip jars are all the rage — meet the former MySpace exec who dreamed them up at Burning Man

Christie Smythe

5.9.21 5:04 PM

Latest Articles

Is Tesla's Autopilot feature the future of driving, or a liability nightmare? Yes.

It’s still unclear whether a fatal Tesla accident was related to Autopilot. If it was, that will be trouble for the automaker and Elon Musk.

Christie Smythe

5.12.21 8:19 PM

What a stolen Banksy artwork tells us about the exploding value of NFTs

Why do digital signatures matter? Their use of blockchain might be modern, but there's a centuries-old precedent at play.

Joon Ian Wong

5.11.21 9:21 PM

This week in Business Twitter: A failed Y Combinator startup founder, BitGo’s tumultuous beginnings, remembering David Swensen

The founder of Dating Ring tells the story of how her startup failed. Meanwhile, an early investor in BitGo explains how the company was born from the ashes of another failed startup.

Ivan De Luce

5.7.21 5:15 PM

Read the worst of Peloton's negative treadmill reviews, which have been piling up for years

According to our data, product reviews for Peloton's Tread cite broken motors, delivery delays, and dangerous malfunctions.

Julia Gray

5.6.21 5:11 PM

A toilet paper CEO dreamed of “bicoastal" expansion but ended up flushing his company down the drain

Orchids Paper Products went bankrupt in 2019. A liquidation trustee blamed “overly-ambitious and ill-conceived” plans by the CEO.

Christie Smythe

5.6.21 4:14 PM

We're hiring a business analyst

The Business of Business is hiring a business analyst to join its growing team.

Paul Smalera

5.6.21 4:12 PM