Entrepreneurship
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Pretty Tasty Cupcake debuts in Conshohocken
When Conshy Girls Restaurant Group owner Kim Strengari (Gypsy Saloon, Southern Cross Kitchen and Gypsy Blu) walked into Erica Young’s Pretty Tasty Cupcake Boutique in Cape May, NJ last summer, she didn’t know that it would literally be life-changing. One bite into a Cookie Dough Brownie Cupcake and she was hooked! After tasting her way through the variety of…
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Ambler resident turns inventor with TofuXpress
By Katie Kohler Meatless Monday isn’t just for vegetarians. The global movement to go plant-based once a week is catching on with carnivores and especially those with health issues. Tofu is a staple of a plant-based diet and although it’s an excellent source of protein and amino acids, it’s difficult to prepare since it is…
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Hatboro grab-and-go vegan shop flourishing at Reading Terminal Market
The old-school push cart is making a comeback at Reading Terminal Market. Driven by empty store fronts and a desire to attract new vendors into the space, the stalwart shopping destination is doing just that with equipment that had been set aside by progress. Reading Terminal general manager AnujGupta and others approached vendors to fill gaps at the…
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Ambler’s Lucky Well hoping to transform individual fortunes
An epiphany while volunteering is leading a local restaurant owner to give back to the community in a meaningful way. What’s the old adage, give a man a fish and he eats for a day, teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime? With plans to expand The Lucky Well (in Ambler) underway…
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Montco born golf architect Tom Fazio becoming a course owner
Tom Fazio is a Norristown native. During his teenage years the family moved to Lansdale and he graduated from Lansdale Catholic High School. He then went to work for his famous uncle, George Fazio, an accomplished professional golfer who became the first PGA Tour player to enter the business of golf course design, Tony Leodora…
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Yondr gets early break at Valley Forge Casino Resort
Caution, the following story may cause cell phone withdrawal symptoms. Late last fall, in the gleaming white lobby of Madison Square Garden, uniformed attendants were posted at security stations to make thousands of smartphones stupid. Chris Rock was playing his 10th show in a 12-city international tour, and at every stop, each guest was required…
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From CHESCO: Daughter of County’s Wealthiest Resident a Growing Force in the Shoe Industry
Starting a new shoe label isn’t easy, especially in today’s competitive environment, but Mary Alice Malone and Roy Luwolt have found a formula that has propelled them to the top in only three years, writes Stephanie Hirschmiller for Footwear News. The daughter of Campbell Soup heiress and Chester County’s wealthiest resident (Mary Alice Dorrance Malone),…
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Scavenger Cycles rolls into Pottstown for new headquarters
When Stan Alemaskin started Scavenger Cycles in November 2015, he set up shop in a 5-foot-by-15-foot storage unit in Malvern. Two years later the company has grown significantly — and now occupies about 5,000 square feet of space in the former Nipple Works building on Laurel Street in Pottstown. The company moved into Pottstown in…
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A seamless transition into Narberth business for this former Wall Streeter
Think of a pond. Then think of ripples in that pond. Laura Kelly’s business spread like that. “It’s just been a journey of drip, drip, drip,” Kelly said. An idea that once fit around the kitchen table of her Main Line home has grown to 10 states and is poised for national exposure through a…
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Roasting Rabbi Coffee growing through social media
For Rabbi Micah Becker-Klein, roasting coffee is a personal experience. He started roasting his own coffee about four years ago, and developed a love and fascination for the practice, from getting the coffee from the farmer to processing and preparing the beans, writes Rachel Kurland in the Jewish Exponent. [uam_ad id=”54865″] “I loved that level…
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Narberth’s Handwork Studio poised for national growth
Think of a pond. Then think of ripples in that pond. Laura Kelly’s business spread like that. “It’s just been a journey of drip, drip, drip,” Kelly said. An idea that once fit around the kitchen table of her Main Line home has grown to 10 states and is poised for national exposure through a…
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WeWork doubled its big corporate client base this year, which generated $250 million in revenue
Big businesses that lease co-working space at WeWork generated $250 million this year in revenue. These companies make up 25 percent of WeWork’s total $1 billion annual revenue as well as 30 percent of new monthly revenue, according to WeWork. And the number of corporate or enterprise customers — those with 1,000 or more employees — has…
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‘Shark Tank’ style competition underway at Montgomery County Community College
Aspiring entrepreneurs were treated to a blast-off in grand style for the third annual Karen A. Stout Start-Up Accelerator Fund competition at Montgomery County Community College’s Parkhouse Hall Atrium on Monday. The program, named in honor of President Emerita Karen A. Stout, fired up the would-be tycoons with some confidence-building tips provided by venture capitalist…
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Smoke Daddy’s opens in Lansdale
Michael Wister’s barbecue journey is 800 miles long, and for those who may be unfamiliar with the details that brought the former financial analyst full circle, they’re printed right there on the menu, cutting to the bone: “Barbecue born in Harleysville, raised in Lansdale, educated in Georgia, returned to Lansdale … grown, mature and ready…
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Ryan Howard backed VC team acquires esports company
Main Line venture capital firm SeventySix Capital has acquired an equity stake in a Philadelphia company that produces esports events that feature competitions among video game players, writes John George for the Philadelphia Business Journal. The amount of its investment in N3rd Street Gamers is being kept confidential, but a spokeswoman for SeventySix Capital of…
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Benjamin’s Desk merging with 1776
Ambler Yards, home to Benjamin’s Desk co-working space, will soon hang a new sign over the space that reads simply, 1776. Five years after kicking off Benjamin’s Desk as one of Philadelphia’s first and premier co-working operators, the company has decided to merge with Washington D.C.-based start-up incubator 1776, writes Natalie Kostelni, for the Philadelphia…
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Weavers Way Ambler quenching a big thirst
After many years as a USDA-designated “food desert,” the drought in Ambler is finally over, writes Dutch Godshalk for the Ambler Gazette. Weavers Way Ambler, the borough’s much-anticipated grocery store, will finally open its doors next month. [uam_ad id=”54865″] Inhabiting the once-forlorn Bottom Dollar Food building at 217 E. Butler Ave., the store’s Oct. 27-29…
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Michelle Obama to headline Pennsylvania Conference for Women
About 12,000 women have registered for the Pennsylvania Conference for Women on Tuesday at the Convention Center, where they’ll hear Michelle Obama give one of her first public speeches since leaving the White House, writes Erin Arvedlund for philly.com. The event takes place today and is sold out, according to their website, but while they’re not…
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