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What would you do if you were chosen to appear on the ABC reality show "Shark Tank," and then Mark Cuban offered to invest $200,000 in your company? If you were Derek Pacque, the 23-year-old founder of CoatChex , you'd turn him down. The Idea CoatChex was born when Pacque, an entrepreneurship student at Indiana University, was told to come up with 10 pet peeves. "One was wearing my coat to the bar and not having anything to do with it," he says. His aggravation level peaked one night when he hid his coat in an out-of-the-way place only to find it had been stolen when he returned. When he asked bar owners why they didn't offer coat checks, they told him it was too messy, and too much of a hassle with patrons often losing tickets or leaving without their checked items. "So I said, do you mind if I set something up?" Pacque recalls. "I'll deal with the customers and the hassles, I'll get out when you don't need me, and I'll give you a percentage of … [Read more...] about Advice From the 23-Year-Old Who Said No to Mark Cuban

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin On June 24, 2021, the Seattle Kraken announced the hiring of Dave Hakstol as their franchise’s first head coach. Friday marks his one-year anniversary. He has already climbed the ranks to become the 19th-longest tenured coach in the 32-team National Hockey League. This summer, it seems like the NHL’s coaching carousel is spinning faster than ever. Here’s a rundown of the flurry of recent hirings and the latest on the vacancies that are still open. Old Faces In New Places In the last 10 days alone, four veteran bench bosses have signed on with new teams. John Tortorella brings his fiery personality and demanding style to the Philadelphia Flyers. Paul Maurice came back from a six-month hiatus to sign on with the Florida Panthers. Peter DeBoer moved from the Vegas Golden Knights to the Dallas Stars and Bruce Cassidy landed with Vegas just eight days after the Boston Bruins let him go. Between them, the quartet has … [Read more...] about Paul Maurice Is Part Of The NHL’s Hottest Trend: Veteran Coaches On New Teams

Creative director of Gucci Alessandro Michele has teamed up with singer-songwriter Harry Styles for a between-season collection that infuses tailoring with adolescent freedom. The collection is titled HaHaHa , tapping a sense of joy and also as an expression of the initial combining their first names: Harry and Alessandro. "In truth it was easier for him to play with me to create clothes, than for me to sing with him,’’ Michele joked with reporters at a preview for the collection inside a Milan vintage store. Styles was just embarking on his solo career when Michele exploded into the fashion world proposing what was a new era of gender-fluid dressing, looks that immediately appealed to the artiste. Read more: What's the future of men's fashion weeks? Is the menswear calendar dwindling? Michele said Styles incorporated one of his debut pieces as Gucci creative director into his wardrobe upon breaking out from boyband One Direction. The relationship has grown over the … [Read more...] about ‘Ha Ha Ha’: But Harry Styles’ new fashion collection is no laughing matter