Cincinnati Enquirer: 
“Carla Eng has some advice for budding women entrepreneurs: Have a solid business plan, fight adversity and don’t give up.
As owner and president of Abstract Displays Inc., Eng has used that strategy to help her Blue Ash-based trade-show exhibit company experience explosive growth. And that’s after she overcame cancer six years ago.
The company’s revenues […]

Fox News:
“In a nondescript warehouse in east Texas, mechanic and entrepreneur Stephen Wynne is bringing a rare sports car back to life. If he succeeds, he almost certainly has Michael J. Fox to thank.
A quarter century after DeLorean Motor Co. began making its glitzy, $25,000 two-seater — an operation that collapsed after two years — […]

South Of Boston: 
“Keith Hamlin began disc jockeying as a student at Whitman-Hanson Regional High School in 1978, working mostly junior high dances. He joined the Air Force after graduating in 1980 and honed his skills working clubs and parties while stationed in Madrid from 1982 to 1984.
When he left military service in 1989, Hamlin immediately […]

Forbes:
“Wildfires across the United States have leveled nearly 7 million acres of land this year.
Green Bay entrepreneur Mike Krysiak said that he thinks he can help prevent the damage from getting worse. The danger that a wildfire poses doesn’t end once the flames are extinguished. With no vegetation to hold exposed soil in place, even […]

TBN Weekly: 
“Most 7-year-olds would be happy to get a new toy. But Julianna Lazzari is getting a whole new toy store.
The Palm Harbor second-grader with her hair in pigtails is the owner and president of 9650, LLC, a corporation with a dozen staffers, $250,000 in annual sales and a successful toy store in the Westchase […]

MarinIJ:
“Julian Prolman grew up in Marin (California) believing he could make a difference in the world. Now, he’s doing it.
Prolman, 19, is the founder of a business called Ministry of Tomorrow, an organization aimed at promoting the environment and improving conditions for people around the world.
Prolman, who graduated from High School in 2006, spent the summer […]

Entrepreneur: 
“From small beginnings come great things. While they’re not often seen as places to start trends, small towns can be incubators for new ideas by providing entrepreneurs with community support and a place to startup with little–if any–competition. So while new concepts may have little staying power in a trend-obsessed place like Manhattan, small towns […]

Columbia Tribune: 
“Eric Quint stumbled into his career six years ago when a cousin showed him all the precautions he had installed to keep his baby safe.
Quint was impressed with the work - until his cousin mentioned how much it cost.
“I could do the job way better and for less money,” Quint said he thought at […]

SeattlePI: 
“I’m not the kind of person who tells aspiring entrepreneurs to abandon their goals. All things are possible, especially if you focus more time on perfecting how you will reach a goal, rather than the goal itself. This is the key to gaining the confidence of investors and other startup partners.
Your first step is to […]

Fast Casual: 
“If not for a wrong turn, Charley’s Grilled Subs might not exist.
Charley’s founder, Charley Shin, was introduced to the Philly cheesesteak during a family vacation to New York while Shin was a high school student in Columbus, Ohio. During the trip, the family took a wrong turn and ended up in Philadelphia.
“I saw a little […]

HeraldNet:
“When Shawn Haynes launched Seattle Timberworks of Monroe, he didn’t have an office.
So he worked out of the public library across the street.
Heidi Happonen uses Spotted Cow Ice Cream and Coffee Co.’s store in Mill Creek Town Center as her office.
With coffeehouses, libraries and other spots offering free wireless Internet access and quiet corners, many […]

 AugustaChronicle:
“Though he has stumbled along the way, learning what works and what doesn’t, Lamar Crowell has turned a small startup with 10 houses a year into a 55-employee firm that builds around 300 houses annually on the formula of affordable, easy-to-build homes that appeal to first-time buyers.
Despite leading one of the biggest home-building companies in the […]

WCCO:
“Minnesota is a land filled with lots of places to get information but, by the end of the year, there will be one more. It’s called MinnPost.com, an Internet daily run by the former publisher of the Star Tribune.
“We are not focused on quantity. We won’t be focused on updating every story every five minutes,” […]

ClovisIndependent:
“Sea Angels learning center in Clovis offers classes for 12-week-old infants. The facility operates on the concept that learning begins at birth and brains develop most rapidly in the first three years.
Sea Angels’ classes are available for children up to 12 years old and sessions for 4-year-olds and younger include parent participation. The goals are […]

CVBT: 
“John Lewis has followed thousands of gutters to realize his true passion.
Mr. Lewis is chief executive officer of Commercial Gutter Inc., headquartered in Modesto with a manufacturing plant in Rocklin and a warehouse in Fremont.
He has built his company from a startup eleven years ago with the main business being cleaning gutters to a multi-million […]

Xconomy:
“Hubspot, a Web startup in Cambridge, MA, is all about saving businesses from their own ignorance.
It’s nobody’s fault that the rise of the Web has changed the way people find products and services in urban America and left so many entrepreneurs stuck in the era of direct-mail marketing or the Yellow Pages. But for a […]

SeattlePI:
“On Monday, Car Toys will announce a partnership with Waltham, Mass., startup Second Rotation Inc., which buys and sells old electronic items.
Under the partnership, Car Toys clerks will assess the condition of a customer’s old cell phone, GPS unit, digital camera, camcorder or MP3 player. They can then tell the customer what Second Rotation will […]

TheRegister:
“A Google-funded startup is announcing an alternate plan to bathe the 49-square-mile city in Wi-Fi. It comes at a fraction of the cost, doesn’t require the city to commit to anything, and employs hardware that’s likely to outperform anything Earthlink can provide. It may prove to be a fatal blow to Mayor Gavin Newsom’s already struggling […]

 KansasCityStar:
“Canine Curriculum is a dog-training company, launched in July 2005 (Owned by Sean and Kristyn Savage), which offers in-home lessons and a four-week program in which dogs live with the business owners. Group programs also are offered.
How long did it take you to start your business and what was your background?
“It took us about six months […]

PCWorld: 
“Vlingo Corp., a speech recognition software vendor founded by industry veterans, has released a beta version of its new software for mobile phones.
Vlingo calls its Find speech recognition software a “breakthrough” for mobile phone users who want to free themselves from “tedious triple-tapping” when searching or downloading content on their phones. Other vendors offer speech […]

SeattlePI:
“A Tacoma startup by the name of Inventure Chemical has raised about $1.5 million to continue development on a chemical process that turns algae into biodiesel and ethanol.
The company has created the algae-based fuel in five- to 10-gallon “bench tests,” with the latest capital infusion to be used to see if the fuel can be […]