In 2005, Larry Andreini approached two entertainment producers about a possible television show, but their meeting didn’t lead to a TV hit. Instead, the pair gave Andreini, an entrepreneur with a track record that includes founding a customer loyalty program and a telecommunications exchange, the concept that would become his next business: Ridemakerz, a [...]
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A lot has changed for Felicia Palmer and Steven Samuel since they started SOHH.com in 1993. Back then, the site was known as Support Online Hip-Hop and was simply a place where the two could post newsletters and run an online bulletin board about hip-hop music and the community. Using Samuel’s home computer, they built the [...]
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Like every MBA student, Dwight Schultheis was waiting for a business idea to inspire him. Then he noticed something: He and his male friends had shaving-related skin problems, and the products they used didn’t help.
Months of market research and a few focus groups later, his upscale men’s grooming products company, Amenity, was born. [...]
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What started as just a dream for husband-and-wife team Andy Stenzler and Shari Misher Stenzler has since become a dream come true for Manhattan parents of children age 5 and under. Kidville, NY, their $3 million, 20,000-square-foot, four-story-high family facility, opened in January 2005 and is home to developmental classes such as “Run, Wiggle, Paint [...]
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Suzy da Silva and Nicole Licata met in 1998 while working at a direct-response advertising agency, and the lack of ethics they sometimes witnessed inspired the pair to branch out on their own in 2001. “We wanted to do something that would treat the clients better,” says Licata, “because direct response in general is a [...]
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