Entrepreneurship
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Youtube car show is born from Huntingdon family passion
Andy Vitek has high hopes for his Youtube car show Turn 1. The show has a growing following after two seasons with some episodes eclipsing 100,000 views. Vitek would love to see his show continue to grow as much as possible but says the show has already served its true purpose. “Turn 1 was created for…
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Vacante’s style parlor and barber shop turning heads two years running
By Stan Huskey Chris Vacante has barbering in his blood. After working in his father’s and uncle’s barber shop in East Norriton for more than 15 years, Chris decided it was time to take his clippers and cut out on his own. [uam_ad id=”54865″] He opened his eponymous parlor at the corner of Main Street…
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Top Stories: East Norriton restaurant quickly putting down ‘Roots’
By Stan Huskey At Roots, it’s all about family, friends, and locally sourced ingredients for owner Avi Maman. “I moved to Colorado and went to Vail. I loved to ski. I had a job at a pizza shop. The pizza was crap. It was horrible. You cant’ get good pizza out there,” says…
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Poker training the base Susquehanna International was built on
Most hobbies are just that, hobbies, but imagine if you could turn yours into a million dollar, a billion dollar, or how about a trillion dollar global juggernaut? On City Avenue in the Philadelphia suburb of Bala Cynwyd, Pa., across the street from a TGI Fridays and California Pizza Kitchen, sits a bland building that looks…
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Tech Talk: Forbes identifies Philadelphia as one of the Top 10 Emerging Cities for Startups
Forbes has joined forces with knowledge partner Revolution to identify 10 emerging cities for startups that are poised for success in the years ahead, and Philadelphia is one of them, writes Kurt Badenhausen for Forbes. Revolution, a venture capital firm, was co-founded 13 years ago by Steve Case, the billionaire co-founder of AOL. Case launched…
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“Think and Grow Rich” at WorkMerk
In just weeks, Philadelphia, known as the “Cradle of Liberty” and the birthplace of our nation, will give rise to another revolutionary movement. [gap height=”10″] On October 20th, the Think and Grow Rich Institute will launch its program for the first time ever in Philadelphia. The host is WorkMerk, a company that enables the future of…
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Hansen Properties ranks 13th on PBJ’s Top Family Owned Businesses
On Thursday, October 4, 2018, Philadelphia’s movers and shakers gathered at the Crystal Tea Room for the Family Owned Business Conference and to reveal the Philadelphia Business Journal’s top list of Family-Owned Businesses. Bud Hansen of Hansen Properties Inc (dba Normandy Farm Hotel and Blue Bell Country Club) was one of the program panelists, “Surviving…
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J.P. Mascaro & Sons featured in national trade magazine
Their red trucks sometimes seem ubiquitous in our area, and now the Audubon-based company is making news on a national scale. When J.P. Mascaro & Sons founder J.P. Mascaro Sr. set out to start a waste collection business in 1964, he had just one truck and one contract serving the General Electric Aerospace Center in King of…
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Montco companies among fastest growing in region
Each year, the Philadelphia Business Journal identifies the fastest-growing companies in Greater Philadelphia. The are called “Soaring 76,” the results are now in for 2018, writes Craig Ay at bizjournals.com. [uam_ad id=”54865″] Mongtomery Coounty companies among the “Soaring 76” include A.E. Harth builders in Springhouse, BlackTree HealthCare Consulting in Conshohocken, and CRM Science in King…
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MCCC awards 2018 grants to five fledgling businesses
Montgomery County Community College has awarded $25,000 in start-up funding to five area entrepreneurs. Each recipient received $5,000 in funding, writes Donna Rovins at pottsmerc.com. [uam_ad id=”54865″] The five were finalists in the third annual Karen A. Stout Start-Up Accelerator Fund Competition, which awards much-needed capital to fledgling businesses — capital the businesses need to…
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Collegville chemist creates natural products for curly-haired girls
Mumbi Dunjwa married the undeniable fact that curly hair loves moisture and married it with a serious chemistry to create Naturaz, a curly-girl product line available in 12 ShopRites and Fresh Grocers throughout the Philadelphia region. The five products in the Naturaz collection — a conditioning shampoo, styling moisturizer, dehydrating mist and tangler, curl-defining gel, and curl-defining…
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Montco Chamber President Kathy Brandon retires to a stream of accolades
Kathy Brandon regularly mixed warmth with leadership in her seven-year tenure as president of the Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce. So it was no surprise that her recent retirement party took the shape of an open house and a homecoming of sorts for dozens of longtime friends,, writes Gary Puleo at timesherald.com. [uam_ad id=”54865″] Brandon,…
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Plymouth Meeting designer wants to fight gender gap with STEM jewelry
Growing up in the Philly suburbs, 19-year-old Raquel Dunoff had always shown an inkling for math and science, but was often outnumbered by male students. “At my public school, I was often the only girl or one of few in my STEM classes,” Dunoff, of Plymouth Meeting, told Technical.ly. “There was one other girl in my computer science class…
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Lansdale artist believes that a wedding, like a tattoo, is forever
Robert Fiore, an artist from Lansdale, who has been tattooing for 22 years, recently made weddings his whole business. He started the Wedding Tattooer last June, and since then, has gotten more than 2,000 inquiries for his services. For these events, Mr. Fiore creates a set of four to six small designs, each about the size of…
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Abington High School receives record $25 million donation
After a bit of research, officials in the Abington School District believe the donation sets a record for philanthropic gifts to a public high school. The Abington School District has received what district officials believe is a record $25 million gift from alumnus Stephen A. Schwarzman, the chairman, CEO and co-founder of Blackstone, one of…
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Printfly borne of necessity, enjoying double digit growth
If necessity is the mother of invention, desperation could be its father. By the time he was in 11th grade at Lower Moreland High School, (Michael Nemeroff’s) father was working with a friend selling T-shirts. Allan Nemeroff told his son they were losing accounts to competitors who were underpricing them, writes Diane Mastrull for philly.com. …
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Conshohocken native is turning (live edge) tables into furniture
When Brian Coll was in his 20s, he followed his dad Jack, as a photographer, writer and framer. He worked alongside his dad in the family’s custom frame shop in Conshohocken for years. And then Brian found a path of his own, this one through the trees. Brian Coll d has added furniture crafting to…
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Shark Tank’s Daymond John wants you to ‘Rise and Grind’
If you have even an inkling of entrepreneurial spirit you don’t want to miss Daymond John when he comes to the Prince Theater to tout his new book and talk a little business. Entrepreneur and investor Daymond John, a “shark” on ABC’s Shark Tank who once stood up for Philly-based Scholly, is coming to Philly for a chat on entrepreneurship lessons.,…
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