Entrepreneurship
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Feasterville’s Best Photo Is the Picture of Longevity, Outlasting Technology Shifts and Pandemic Restrictions
Nick and Carol Pacitti are industry survivors. Their Feasterville camera store, Best Photo, has outlasted sweeping technology changes, shifting consumer habits, and even a pandemic. Eric Herr explains how they navigated these developments for the Bucks County Herald. At one point, most American suburban landscapes featured a camera shop. It was a place to drop…
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Hartsville Firefighter’s Inventive Spark Leads Him to Reinvent Traditional Home Smoke Detectors
In an idea born of equal parts ingenuity and fire-fighting experience, Ed Pfeiffer of Hartsville has improved traditional home smoke detectors. He and his grandsons are now marketing the revised product via a new business, Firefighters Preventing Fires. The Bucks County Herald profiled it. “We are taking the guesswork out of selecting detectors to upgrade…
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Amid Industry Titans, Mom-and-Pop Entities Find Support in Bucks County’s Focus on Small Business
Bucks County’s focus on small business helps ensure that owners of home-grown shops and service providers make it amid a sea of bigger players. In fact, many small businesspeople do quite well in Pennsylvania. The local commerce environment propelled the county to a top-ten spot in an assessment of statewide friendliness to mom-and-pop operations. SmartAsset…
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Financial Data Show Local Beauty Industry’s Pandemic Survival Tactics Weren’t Just Putting Lipstick on a Pig
Social distancing and mask mandates were particularly hard on the beauty industry, whose stock-in-trade is up-close, personal attention. Square, Inc., a San Francisco technology/financial services company, cited how these businesses survived, despite the absence of 1:1 interaction. The experience of Beauty Marx Aesthetic MedSpa, Doylestown, was indicative of the nationwide response, which turned out to…
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NBC’s TODAY Show: From Rapper to Prison Inmate to Businessman, This Paoli Native Wants to Pay It Forward
Darrell Alston, a former rapper from Paoli who started the luxury sneaker brand Bungee Oblečení after leaving prison, wants to help people in similar circumstances, reports Steve Patterson for NBC’s TODAY show. During his time behind bars, the Conestoga High School graduate envisioned a sneaker brand. He sketched more than 250 design possibilities, which he…
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Popular Delaware River Hot Dog Vendor Succumbs to COVID-19; Future of the Business for His Family Is Murky
Greg Crance, 56, owner/operator of both Delaware River Tubing and its mid-river floating hot dog stand, has passed away. The cause of death was complications resulting from a coronavirus infection, reports Caroline Fassett of NJ Advance Media. Crance has been selling hot dogs on the Delaware River since 1987. In 2002, he started Delaware River…
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DelCo Dino Expert Who Advised Spielberg on ‘Jurassic Park’ Is Now on ‘Shark Tank’
The Media Borough man who advised Steven Spielberg about dinosaurs in Jurassic Park now has his company and its robotic life-sized creatures featured in a May 21 episode of Shark Tank, writes Lisa Dukart for The Philadelphia Business Journal. Don Lessem runs Dino Don, Inc., from his Media home. His dinosaurs are displayed in gardens,…
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New 5-Part SCORE Series Focuses on Simple Steps to Start Your Own Business
SCORE Chester and Delaware County has teamed up with SCORE Lancaster Chapter to offer a 5-part live online program, “’Simple Steps’ to Starting a Business.” The series will run 6 to 8 p.m. on May 5, May 12, May 18, May 26 and June 2. “Simple Steps” is a comprehensive program offered by SCORE with…
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Triangle Roasters: The Coffee and Chocolate Are Great, But Wait Until You Find Out Where It Comes From
If you’re going to start a business you might as well produce the two best things on the planet—coffee and chocolate. Then, you might as well take it a step further and make really good coffee and chocolate that supports communities and environmental sustainability around the world. You might as well have a business that…
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Schwenksville Woman Creates Custom Tent Company That Turn Themed Sleepovers Into Special Events
Allison Kozej, a Schwenksville mom who previously worked in finance, has started Dream Hutz, a company that makes custom-themed tents that turn themed sleepovers into special events, writes Alicia Vitarelli for 6abc. Her tents help children feel special while celebrating in more intimate gatherings with siblings or family. “I think that people really still want…
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Finalists Compete Today in WCU’s Virtual Business Idea Pitch Presented by Meridian Bank
Anyone who wants to start a business should watch budding entrepreneurs pitch their ideas in the annual Business Idea Competition hosted by West Chester University’s Dr. Edwin Cottrell Entrepreneurial Leadership Center. These finalists will compete virtually today, April 14, from 5-6:30 PM in a live event before a panel of judges that consists of angel…
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Bucks County “Points Guy” Advises Millions on Flying Economically without Flying Economy
The travel career of Bucks County’s Brian Kelly, a.k.a. The Points Guy, has seen a rapid takeoff, reports The New York Times. Kelly’s savvy at maximizing credit-card airline miles (“points”) has taken him from his roots in Solebury Township to the four corners of the world. As a 13-year-old, Kelly’s businessman father — recipient of numerous frequent flyer miles — tossed him a stack of airline…
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Makers Off Main in Doylestown Opened amid Pandemic to Help People Keep Busy During Pandemic
Makers Off Main, a handicrafts store in Doylestown, opened its doors for the first time in August to help people keep busy and engaged during the pandemic, reports Lucy Bustamante for NBC10 Philadelphia. The store offers products from 90 skilled artisans, all of whom live within an hour from Doylestown. The store offers everything from…
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Buck’s County’s ‘Travel to You’ Tutoring Service Helps Students Excel at Their Own Home
Teacher Time To Go is a “travel to you” tutoring service in Bucks County that helps students excel by providing individualized tutoring, homework help, test prep, enrichment services, and special education supports, as well as executive functioning and organizational skills, according to a staff report from the Bucks County Magazine. Jennifer Shemtob founded the service…
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Quakertown Six-Year-Old Takes Selling of Girl Scout Cookies Amid a Pandemic to Next Level
While all Girl Scouts have had to change their strategy for selling cookies during the pandemic, one six-year-old Quakertown girl brought it to a whole new level, writes Alicia Vitarelli for 6abc. Kenzie Keefe—with the help of her parents—took the famous cookies on the road. The family created a cookie truck, which they parked in…
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Chalfont Student Hopes to Hit It Big with His Wearable Light for Nurses Invention
Anthony Scarpone-Lambert, a University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing senior from Chalfont, hopes to hit it big with his invention of wearable lights for nurses, writes Alfred Lubrano for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Along with his cofounder, Scarpone-Lambert believes he has created a solution to the problem of hospital personnel disturbing patients at night. The invention…
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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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