Screenshot of a mobile article from The Quarter showing a story by Matt Gira dated May 20th, 2025. The article features a photo of a woman with red hair wearing a green top, standing in front of bookshelves, with overlay text reading 'NASA' and '$1 million'. The headline reads 'Brandi Bernoskie didn't set out to build a million-dollar business. In 2011, she was writing content for NASA and running a small blog on the side, mostly for herself.' The article continues to describe how she taught herself to code websites and grew a side project into Alchemy & Aim, now a $1M website agency.

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She Got Paid for Her MBA Instead

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How Two MBAs used their alumni networks to create a $1 million company

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