Four full-time working moms in the town of Kewaunee, Wisconsin, have joined forces to create a women’s and children’s clothing boutique called Pretty Please. The idea for the store developed from the four moms (Sandy Morton, Terry Schleis, Karen Kinjerski and Rani Stangel) who believed the area needed a fun place to shop that’s convenient
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James Good has always loved bikes dating back to his early experience working in a bicycle repair shop. Once he earned his degree in business, his first inclination was to open a bicycle shop. Good took his business acumen and bicycle savvy and applied it to his venture Good Bike Company (based in Prineville, Oregon).
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Fresh out of college, Gabriel Mandujano had aspirations of owning a business. The University of Pennsylvania graduate founded Wash Cycle Laundry, an eco-friendly wash and fold dry cleaning business serving Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Washington, DC, and Austin, Texas. The company uses green products to clean the clothes, and uses bicycles for transportation to make customer pickups
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Angela’s Mum is the latest small business in Bayonne, New Jersey, creating a buzz within the community. The company designs a composite of floral arrangements for every occasion ranging from weddings to graduations. Owner Tracy D’Alessandro uses stencils and artificial coloring among other ingredients to create her magnificent floral designs. D’Alessandro honed her floral skills
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Stacy Bannor use to run an in-home day care business in Des Moines, Iowa, and would routinely purchase toys for the kids she looked after. Bannor didn’t think the toys in her daycare were conducive to stimulating the kid’s imagination and creativity, so she took matters into her own hands and started a toy business.
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Sarah Calhoun worked outdoors for a number of years in uncomfortable men’s work apparel that didn’t fit. So she decided to appeal to the outdoor working women of the world and launched Red Ants Pants, a business that specializes in workpants for women who work in all outdoor industries from landscaping to welding. The
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Starting a business isn’t easy, and Joe Sciarrone knows this from personal experience. Sciarrone got his start as a plumber working for a local HVAC (heating, ventilation, air condition) and plumbing services company, but wanted to take a different path in life. Sciarrone went into business for himself and opened Carefree Comfort, a full-service HVAC
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Sara Westermark has been designing jewelry for eight years and credits her innovative designs as one of the reasons her Wilmington, North Carolina, jewelry business is thriving. The secret to Westermark’s designs are simple. She takes stones cut by her husband and fuses them with silver metals to build abstract jewelry creations ranging from rings
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Tony Hayden has been a hair stylist for over 30 years and decided to open his own hair studio within an Orlando, Florida, building that houses other independent hair stylist’s studios. He purchased a 125-square foot space comparable to an apartment bathroom. Hayden and other stylists in the area have espoused this trend of renting
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Fans of southern-style soul food were in for a treat with the grand opening of Alleans Southern Cuisine in the Columbia, South Carolina, area. From fried chicken to peach cobbler, Alleans offers the full spectrum of down home delectable dishes you think of when attending a family reunion. This is exactly what restaurant co-owner Tanya
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