Entrepreneurship
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Battling Fires, Emergencies and the Pandemic, Ardmore’s Tom Hayden Bounces Back
By David Bjorkgren Tom Hayden serves dual roles in the Ardmore community. He’s the town’s fire chief, a firefighter in the proud tradition of his father, who served as the Lower Merion deputy fire chief. He’s also the 45-year owner of Hayden Printing Company, performing printing jobs that need a special touch or consideration. “I…
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Step by Step Instructions to Establish and Leverage Your LinkedIn Company Page Step-by-Step
By Lynne Williams It’s free and easy to set up a LinkedIn company page for your small business, as a solopreneur, or self-employed individual to leverage LinkedIn. Not only will the link below these instructions provide you with step-by-step visuals, but if you keep tabs on the Donnay Consulting Group LinkedIn company page and profile,…
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From Weddings to Corporate Head Shots, Bryn Mawr Photographer Brings a Personal Spark to Your Image
You get much more than a point and shoot photographer when you hire Pictures by Todd in Bryn Mawr. There’s an artistry and instinct to the studio’s work that captures the essence of the person or persons being photographed. As people do more and more of their interactions online, particularly during the pandemic, capturing that…
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Pottstown Man Teaching People How to Establish Their Own Online Business With No Experience
Zishan Manji, a Pottstown native, wants to change peoples’ lives by teaching them how to establish their own online business with no experience and build them into successful ventures, writes Leo Giosuè for The Jerusalem Post. Manji started earning money online when he was thirteen. He discovered Amazon and began selling wallets he had previously…
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Villanova School of Business Lends a Hand in Launching ThankX, a Personal Delivery App!
There was a time when neighbors knew neighbors, when residents chatted with delivery people and with the owner of the small hardware store down the street. There was a time before the pandemic, before indifferent package drops from Amazon. There was a time when shopping and deliveries were personal. Carlos Colon, a Philadelphia real estate…
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Local Entrepreneur Successfully Growing Eco-Friendly Detergent Company by Eliminating ‘Stupid’
Jonathan Propper, a Haverford College graduate, has a simple professional and personal guideline that helps him continue to successfully grow his eco-friendly laundry detergent company, Dropps, writes Courtney DuChene for The Philadelphia Citizen. “Elevate the core, eliminate the stupid,” said Propper. He formed the company fifteen years ago, however the idea for the detergent came…
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Wynnewood Man Launches On-Demand Platform That Allows Users to Monetize Advice
Peter Yeargin, a Wynnewood resident and senior manager for systems engineering at Cisco, has launched Sage, an online on-demand answer platform that allows users to monetize their advice, writes Paige Gross for the Technical.ly. Yeargin got the idea for the platform while doing his taxes. “Of course it’s tax time, so I can’t find an…
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Local Teen Makes Wooden American Flags to Support First Responders
Matt Menditto, an eighteen-year-old entrepreneur from Northampton Township, is using his handcrafting skills to create wooden American flags that he is now donating to first responders in his community, writes Matteo Iadonisi for the 6abc. Menditto began crafting the flags last year and has been selling them through his business, “Summit Flags.” But recently, he…
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Local Man Creates Simple Product to Help People Have Greater Clarity, Presence in Their Lives
For all of the hardships the coronavirus pandemic has created, there is seemingly an equal amount of good that has arisen during these challenging times. For instance, 3×5 Life is a new product that is the brainchild of Downingtown native and West Chester resident Bryan McFarland. 3×5 Life are easily transportable cards, measuring three inches…
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Former Lower Merion Bus Driver Now Runs ‘Reliable Mom Transport’ Business
Martina Slappy, a former Lower Merion bus driver who formed her own company, Reliable Mom Transport, is helping out her community during the pandemic, writes Matteo Iadonisi for 6abc. Since the COVID-19 outbreak, Slappy has been running errands and transporting senior citizens around Philadelphia in her big red minivan. In November, Slappy quit her job…
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Horsham Third-Grader Takes Top Spot in National Toy Competition with ‘Slap Happy’ Invention
Horsham third-grader Emery Alderson recently took top spot at the Chicago Toy Game Week Young Inventor Challenge with her invention called “Slap Happy,” according to a staff report from 6abc. A major toy company, Magformers, picked her toy as the winner. The young inventor was overjoyed that her toy was selected as the winner. “It…
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Black-Owned Electro Soft in Montgomeryville Seeing Benefits from Nationwide Justice Movement
Electro Soft, the Montgomeryville-based, minority certified contract manufacturer of electronics equipment, is one of the black-owned companies around the country that is finding new opportunities from the nationwide justice movement, writes Gene Marks for The Philadelphia Inquirer. This movement has pushed many major companies in the country to prioritize diversity not only in their hiring…
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Philadelphia among Three U.S. Places with Youngest Entrepreneurs
Philadelphia is one of the top three cities nationwide with the youngest entrepreneurs, according to a new study by LendingTree, writes Emily Canal for the INC.com. To determine places with the youngest business founders, LendingTree compared the age of founders when they launched their businesses in the nation’s 50 largest metropolitan areas. Philadelphia is in…
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Tips & Workshops to Boost Your Business on LinkedIn
By Lynn Williams Solopreneur? Entrepreneur? Small business owner? Growing business? Startup? Side-gigger? Side hustler? Franchise owner? Thinking about starting a business? Have you optimized your LinkedIn profile to boost your business? Does your headline only say CEO of Blah Blah Blah Business? Or does it also state what your business is about utilizing all of…
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Local Woman Uses Her Experiences in Labor to Invent Device for Expecting Mothers
West Chester resident Lauren Richards, 33, has delivered all three of her children at Chester County Hospital, but it was after the birth of her third child when she realized she had almost broken her husband’s arm during labor. “You always see the classic image of a pregnant woman clutching her husband’s hand,” said Richards.…
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Norristown Man With Autism Starts Coffee Business, Plans to Offer Employment opportunities to Others With Special Needs
Jake McFarland, a Norristown man with autism, started his coffee cart business after graduating high school and is donating part of the profits to local charity organizations, writes Brittany Sweeney for the PBS39 News. McFarland runs Coffee Closet with Barista Jake from Vinyl Closet Records in Norristown, which is owned by his parents, Jason and…
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New Report Shows 5.7% Female Workers in Pennsylvania Own Their Own Businesses
In Pennsylvania, 5.7 percent of female workers are entrepreneurs, which is two percent below the national average, according to a new report by Volusion. Full-time female entrepreneurs – defined as self-employed workers in their own incorporated or unincorporated businesses – earn an adjusted median income of $40,756. The actual median income is slightly lower, at…
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Founder of Medical Device Company Wins PSGV’s Lion Cage with ‘Groundbreaking Technology’
Even before he won first place in Penn State Great Valley’s third annual Lion Cage pitch competition, offered through the REV-UP Center for Entrepreneurship, Aevumed founder and CEO Saif Khalil had unique ties to Penn State. Aevumed, a medical device company focused on providing solutions for patients with rotator cuff tears, is headquartered in Penn…
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