Entrepreneurship
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Charisse McGill’s Collaboration with Doylestown Brewing Company Vaults Her to Becoming Pa.’s First Black Female Signature Beer Owner
Charisse McGill — whose French Toast snack, when infused into beer from Doylestown Brewing Company, became a huge hit — continues to see her career bubble to new heights. Thanks to her business agility and vision, she is now recognized as the first black female signature beer owner in Pa. Emily Kovach fermented the story…
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Classroom Culinarians: Two Former Phila. School Principals Open Elkins Park Restaurant
After long dreaming about owning their own restaurant together, this past December Dr. Maya Johnstone and Dr. Kala Johnstone opened FoodChasers Kitchen in Elkins Park where they’re finally serving up the menu they’ve been dreaming of. “From the moment our doors opened, we’ve been hamsters on a wheel but it has truly been a blessing,”…
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Kona Compost Co., Yardley, Wins Environmental Stewardship Award, Pays It Forward to Local Garden
In an act of one-good-turn-deserves-another, the Kona Compost Co. in Yardley took a monetary award and turned it over to another Bucks County nonprofit. Chris English covered the doubled-up windfall in the Bucks County Herald. Kona Compost Co. was named the 2021 recipient of the Lower Makefield Township Advisory Council Environmental Stewardship award. The honor…
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WCU’s Entrepreneurial Leadership Center Seeks ‘Big Ideas’ for Business Idea Competition Presented by Meridian Bank
Now celebrating its 10th year, the annual Business Idea Competition (BIC) at West Chester University welcomes all those who have business-startup dreams and big ideas to compete for $11,500 in prize money in the 2022 contest. Ideas that have not yet been commercialized and can be used as the foundation for a new business are…
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Warminster Inventor Creates Safe and Comfortable Face Masks
Current medical mask designs have not changed, in a beneficial way, for decades. But the pandemic-related need for more habitual covering of the face highlighted the call for improvements in protection, comfort, and performance. The patent-pending Properly Made Masks design meets those needs. As the COVID-10 crisis continued to unfold, Warminster inventor, John Melching Jr.…
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Willow Grove Native Becomes Professional Artist After Abrupt End of Sports Career
After an abrupt end to his football career, Willow Grove native Jordan Spector turned to art as both a way to cope and as a new profession, reports Jamie Apody for 6abc. “I’ve done art ever since I was a kid,” said Spector. “It was a hobby for me, a passion for me.” Due to…
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Wallingford Twin Brothers Go Global With Grandmother’s Marinara Sauce
The Vesper Brothers had a pasta sauce recipe for success. So what could go wrong? Plenty, apparently, but in the end, Bill and John Vesper, twin brothers from Wallingford, triumphed, writes Lisa Dukart for Philadelphia Business Journal. When they first started their marinara sauce business, Vesper Bros. Foods, could only turn out 12 jars per hour.…
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Starting a Business? Drexel Hill’s SmallBizLady Wants to Chat
If you happen to be out and about in Drexel Hill you may run into Melinda Emerson. And if you’re thinking of going into business for yourself, you might want to offer her a friendly hello. Emerson just happens to be America’s No. 1 expert on successfully starting, keeping, and growing small businesses. She’s known…
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Montco’s John Accardi Sees Sweet Success with Tasty CRAVEBOX in North Wales
In 2014, John Accardi started CRAVEBOX. He was 24 years old at the time and dropped out of a Ph.D. program at Georgetown University to start the company. He says he was very excited but also nervous to make this transition. He had no prior experience in business or e-commerce. He also didn’t take a loan or raise…
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Pipersville Sisters, ‘Super Antsy’ During Quarantine, Start Lawn Sign Business: 2 Yard Ninjas
Pandemic boredom shared by two Pipersville sisters led to their creation of a service business that evolved into much more than a time-filler. Matteo Iadonisi, of 6abc, covered the launch, success, and philanthropic impact of 2 Yard Ninjas. Stuck at home by 2020 pandemic-related summer-camp closure, sisters Grace and Rylee Decker, 12 and 15 years…
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Germantown Academy Grad Co-founds Startup That Brings Salon Hair Care Directly Into Client’s Home
Will Newton, a Germantown Academy graduate, is one of the founders and CEO of Shortcut, a growing startup that brings salon hair care directly into clients’ homes, writes Kennedy Rose for The Business Journals. The service connects stylists with people who prefer to get their hair done at home. Customers can schedule in-home appointments as…
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Career Corner: LinkedIn Puts Philadelphia on Top 10 Entrepreneurs List
With many jobs drying up during the worst of the pandemic, employees were not sitting around idle just waiting for those positions to reappear. Many decided if the job they wanted wasn’t hiring, they would create it themselves and become Entrepreneurs. The Philadelphia Business Journal recently had a piece discussing business growth in the country…
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James A. Peruto, Local Auto Dealer and World-Speed Record Holder, Succumbs to Melanoma at Age 68
James A. Peruto of Lower Makefield passed away late last month after a three-year fight with melanoma. Bob Fernandez reported the details in The Philadelphia Inquirer. Peruto was the older brother of Charles A. Peruto Jr., the Republican candidate for city district attorney. Together, the siblings fixed cars in their youth, handling both the mechanics…
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Plymouth Meeting Mother-Daughter Duo Finds Second Careers in OMG! Pretzels
Plymouth Meeting mother and daughter Lynn and Stephanie Kriebel are finding great success in their second careers thanks to an old family recipe, writes M. English for The Times Herald. Lynn, a former nurse, and Stephanie, a teacher by training, started OMG! Pretzels in 2014 as a two-woman cottage industry in Lynn’s kitchen. The brand…
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Doing Just Brine, This Local Pickle Startup’s Future Is Nothing Sour
The success of Brine Street Picklery in Norristown is becoming something its founder, P.J. Hopkins, can relish. Lisa Dukart uncapped the story for The Business Journals. Hopkins got the idea for the business during a 2011 trip to New Orleans, where he was impressed by the pickled green beans served with Bloody Mary’s. When he…
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This Delco Veteran Has Made Junk His Business. Now There’s a Reality Show
Delaware County native and U.S. Army veteran Jerry Flanagan started JDog Junk Removal in 2011. Ten years later, the Berwyn company is nationally recognized and ready for its own reality TV series, Operation Hidden Treasure, writes Michael Tanenbum for Philly Voice. The new reality show will run on the Discovery Channel. Flanagan served as an…
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First-Year Chestnut Hill College Student and Entrepreneur Launches Business While in High School
As Safiyyah Witherspoon ’25, spent the summer preparing to be a freshman at Chestnut Hill College, she is also celebrating her first year as a small business owner. Witherspoon launched her line, Feegenics, a vegan, cruelty-free cosmetic line, in June 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and right as she completed her junior…
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Saint Rocco’s Treats, Perkasie, Named for the Patron Saint of Dogs, Cashes in on Canine Cookies
With a stated goal to “always put dogs first,” Kolby and Kaleb Rush, two budding entrepreneurs, started their Perkasie business, Saint Rocco’s Treats. In 2020, the COVID-19 outbreak erased both their internships. Kolby’s spot through Penn State was cancelled, as was Kaleb’s through Temple. But hungry to continue sharpening their entrepreneurial chops, they branched out…
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