Hometown Annapolis:
Teen Opens Successful Shaved Ice Business
“Katie Neighoff is a busy entrepreneur and the owner of a new business in Galesville, the “Sno Shak.” At the Shak, she sells 24 regular and diet flavors of sno-balls.
For Katie, the business is a way to earn money for college. It might also turn out to be an […]
Entrepreneur:
Start a Doll Making & Repair Business
“It may not seem like it, but doll making and repairs is a giant segment of the craft and toy industry. To reinforce this, simply visit an antique shop that specializes in antique dolls or a retailer of new custom “one of a kind” dolls, and you’ll soon see […]
Entrepreneur:
“At age 18, Shawn Nelson was watching TV on the couch when he decided “a huge beanbag thing” might be more comfortable. He bought 14 yards of vinyl, cut it into a baseball shape, and spent three weeks filling it with anything soft he could find. The finished LoveSac was 7 feet wide, and everyone […]
Star Tribune:
“Catallia Mexican Foods turns out more than a million tortillas a day using four automated production lines at its Eagan factory. The company, aided by financing from a Cargill Inc. subsidiary, has 48 employees.
Cruz Gooch started out selling her tortillas a case at a time to supermarkets. She also started her business by outsourcing […]
Salt Lake Tribune:
In a tiny showroom of twisted light bulbs, energy entrepreneur Paul Isom is going gangbusters for green.
He speaks of wax-covered refrigerator thermostats, pinkie-sized fluorescent bulbs that need no ballast and energy adapters that can make a drinking fountain, escalator and even a rock crusher run more efficiently.
“There are two types of green,” Isom […]
HappyNews.com:
Jason O’Neill, creator and founder of Pencil Bugs, is the youngest student to receive the Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2007.
Young Entrepreneurs of America (YEA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to educating and motivating young entrepreneurs. Since the program began over a decade ago, high school students across the country have been competing for this […]
Entrepreneur.com:
Every day, millions of people rush off to work or read the news with a piping hot cup of coffee they’ve just bought. These consumers are fueling the $12.27 billion coffee industry and, by association, the coffee sleeve industry.
Moving on to the day’s next task, however, happens to be a little more difficult if your beverage is singeing your […]
SoutheastTexasLive.com:
Leo Danna never had any formal culinary training, but he spent years working behind the counter at his parents’ old restaurant, the Quality Cafe. Being half-Italian, he said, he also had a knack “for throwing stuff together and making it taste pretty good.”
So 12 years ago, he began tinkering in the cafe’s kitchen to produce […]
Weekend.entrepreneur.com:
Like many restless college roommates, Jamee Kunichika and Sherilyn Luke wanted a business to call their own. Instead of just dreaming about it, they took action.
Three years later, having endured extreme highs and lows, they are enjoying the sweet smell of success. Together they have attained their dreams with POOF, a liquid toilet odor eliminator.
After […]
CrainsNewYork:
A new Web site business start-up hopes to tap into the $63 billion luxury retail market by offering steep discounts on designer labels.
The site, Gilt, sells items from one designer at a time for about 24 to 36 hours or until items are sold out. Merchandise on the site is marked down by 50% to 70%. The site […]
Canada.com:
Entrepreneur Nick Kellet is hoping that his successful board game is the gift that keeps on giving.
And the 44-year-old hopes next year will see him break even on his investment of between $150,000 and $200,000 on GiftTRAP.
“I was trying to think of board games and my daughter Freya, who was six at the time, asked, […]
MediaPost:
An entrepreneur in Phoenix is looking to combine the growing craze for coffee and coffee products with increased discretionary pet spending, through a new product introduction: Doggy Java.
“Everybody drinks coffee and tea,” Mari Justin, creator of the drink, tells Marketing Daily. “I thought that it would be a good time to share with my dog.”
The beef-flavored (but […]
BusinessWeek.com:
Sara Blakely had been selling fax machines and office copiers door-to-door for seven years when she had an idea for a clothing line that would transform her from an employee into a successful entrepreneur. In a moment of inspiration, Blakely, frustrated with her “unsightly panty lines,” cut the feet off a pair of panty hose […]
AmericanVentureMagazine.com:
The ten years that Pauline Lewis spent as an international market researcher taught her how to navigate the complex waters of corporate America.
But that decade also taught her something else: how she would do things differently.
Lewis, 36, has put that hard-earned knowledge to work. Three years ago, she walked away from her job to create […]
JamaicaPlainGazette:
When Francesco Calderaro came to the United States from Palermo, Sicily eight years ago to pursue a master’s degree, he was amazed at some of the things that passed for “authentic” Italian food, he said in an interview last week. The JP resident said he was particularly shocked at most of the coffee that was […]
TDN.com:
This is a story about a fashion altruist. Never heard of such a thing? Well, meet Blake Mycoskie, a young entrepreneur and former “Amazing Race” contestant.
When the enterprising Texan took a vacation in Argentina 18 months ago, he was struck by two things: the simple style of the alpargata, a traditional Argentine rope-soled shoe, and […]
Richmond.com:
When Mike Gilbert spilled orange juice on his pants in the late 1990s, it caused more than just a stain.
For Gilbert, an aspiring entrepreneur at the time, it was his “Eureka!” moment and the rest has been fizzy delicious history.
Gilbert is the creator of The Switch, a carbonated 100 percent juice beverage that got its […]
IdahoStatesman.com:
I’m 40 years old this year, and I’m finally living my dream. Just a few years ago, I was a chemical engineer at Micron with a secure income and nice house. Two years ago, I walked away from all that and became an entrepreneur. I have never worked so hard or had such an uncertain […]
Business.mainetoday.com:
Whether it’s applying solid color to a chair featuring intricately- turned legs or painting a scene on a side table, Phyllis Giordano’s intent is to redefine the character of a piece of furniture, rather than conceal it.
As an artist, designer and owner of the York business Painted Treasurers, Giordano works with antique, vintage and other […]
NYDailyNews.com:
The first time Kathy Moskal launched a business, she created a whole new product category.
Her company, Hue, manufactured hip alternatives to hosiery - colored tights, and knee-highs to wear with pants - and garmentos coined the term “fashion legwear.” The company’s sales reached $40 million, and Moskal made a bundle when she and a co-owner […]
Courier-gazette.com:
Amy Long, of McKinney, didn’t set out to be an entrepreneur when she invented the Secure2Me blanket. She was just trying to find a way to keep her newborn son’s blanket from slipping off.
“I just had my third baby and ran out of hands,” Long said. “I struggled to keep him covered that first fall […]
MaineToday.com:
Five years ago, Eleanora Budd received a dog-biscuit-making kit for Christmas. Today she has her own line of dog biscuits, Mrs. Budd’s Dog Biscuits, that she makes at her home in Gray.
“I just started making them,” said Budd. “I started to make my own little packages.” Budd is from New York City and has lived […]
WashingtonPost.com:
Star light star bright. I wish I may. I wish I might. Play this game all night.
That’s what the brains behind North Star Games hope every family member across the nation will say each night before they go to bed.
Founder Dominic Crapuchettes and his business partner Satish Pillalamarri may get their wish. The small business […]
NYSun.com:
Surveying the trash left behind after a party one night, an environmentally conscious student saw a unique business opportunity: offering a biodegradable alternative to the disposable dishes on the market.Michael Dwork, now 29, used his vacations from Columbia Business School to visit Thailand, Laos, and Peru as part of a search for the right material […]
Entrepreneur.com:
Shirley Kuhnley was 69 years old three years ago when she graduated from a nine-month culinary arts class in Portland, Oregon’s largest city. Then she worked a year at another bakery, and she took a year to establish her business, refurbish her location, and open up. According to the story in the paper, Shirley said:
“You […]
