Entrepreneurship
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Broomall Winemaker Vino Bambino Offers Wine Blending Experience
Two long-time friends started Vino Bambino in Broomall, turning a wine-making hobby over the years into a unique wine-producing, wine-blending business, writes Greta Phillips for 6abc. Owner John Giacomucci’s parents are from Abruzzo, Italy. When his family came to America, they wanted to keep wine on the family menu. “They used to crush grapes in…
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As Small Business Saturday Approaches, Peddler’s Village Is the Perfect Spot to Support Locally-Owned Shops
With Small Business Saturday coming this weekend, Peddler’s Village is home to a wide array of unique, locally-owned businesses. The Buck County shopping mall is known for its specialty shops, offering everything from clothes to cookware to a recently-opened shop specializing in Harry Potter-related items. With almost all of their 65 shops being locally owned,…
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Local Family Just One Vote Away from $6 Million Prize
Through years of working endless nights and weekends, a Paoli E.R. doc and his siblings, all originally from Newtown Square, have already managed to turn science fiction into reality. And now, they’re just one final vote away from winning $6 million or more in the Qualcomm-funded XPrize competition to create the fictitious tricorder from Star…
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Relay CEO Matt Gillin’s Entrepreneurship Runs in the Family
Relay Network in Radnor is the brainchild of Matt Gillin, who had a front-row seat with his eight siblings watching his father run a mini golf course business. From those earlier experiences, most members of the family went on to own their own businesses, writes Paige Gross for Technical.ly. He launched his first company, Ecount,…
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Phillies Fever Turned Aston Mom Into an Entrepreneur
The Phillies playing in the World Series has led to some entrepreneurial work for Aston mom Ellen Paskill, writes Jennifer Joyce for Fox 29. Paskill makes sweatshirts for family and friends as a hobby. She had already made a sweatshirt to highlight her son’s football team. “This is the one that started it all,” Ellen…
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Free SCORE Workshops for November
SCORE Chester and Delaware Counties are offering the following free SCORE workshops and November business webinars. In-Person Program–Entrepreneurship: Is It for You? This free in-person Nov. 14 workshop from 10 to 11:30 AM at Pennsylvania CareerLink Chester County will introduce you to various aspects of starting a small business whether purchasing an existing business, or…
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SCORE Celebrates Veteran-Owned Small Businesses
As we honor Americans who served in the military and their families on Veterans Day this November, SCORE shines a light on the nation’s almost two million Veteran-owned small businesses. Many Veterans feel the military experience prepared them well for small business ownership, based on SCORE 2020 and 2021 national surveys with entrepreneurs. The most…
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Boutique Makes History as 1st African-American-Owned Shop in Wayne
Hillary White Jean wanted to offer high-end fashion to customers, so she sought out a Wayne storefront and created JWH Boutique, writes TaRhonda Thomas for 6abc. Now JWH Boutique has made history as the first African-American-owned business in Wayne. Jean is from Haiti and came to America when she was 14. She created a reputation…
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Free SCORE Workshops in October for Business Owners
SCORE Chester and Delaware Counties is offering the following free SCORE workshops and webinars in October. Grow Your YouTube Channel to Grow Your Business Besides knowing what equipment to use and how long videos should be, small business owners REALLY should know about the quality of the video content and customize it for YouTube. Video…
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9 of the Largest Family-Owned Regional Businesses are in Delco
Many of the Philadelphia region’s family-owned businesses expanded last year — whether by revenue or employee count, according to a list of 75 of the largest family-owned business in the region, writes Todd Romero for Philadelphia Business Journal. Nine of those were in Delaware County. Nolan Painting Inc. in Havertown, founded in 1979, ranked…
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Meet Delaware County’s Power Women of 2022
Main Line Today has selected women across the Main Line and Philadelphia suburbs as the Power Women of 2022. Ten of the honorees on the extensive list of accomplished women hail from Delaware County. Diana Perez-Rodgers This broadcast journalism veteran spearheaded Radnor RISE after her kids began asking questions about George Floyd’s murder.…
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Upper Darby Actor Helps Launch Horror Content ‘Chilling’ App
Upper Darby native, comedian, and actor Jamie Kennedy is launching an app tailored to horror fanatics. The Chilling app serves as a crowdsourced platform for a multitude of ad-free spooky stories. The founder of the app is a YouTuber of the “Being Scared” channel, Dane Petrali, and tech “unicorn” Chris Graham. Escaping the grips of…
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From Saunas to Smoothies: State-of-the-Art AFC Fitness Center in Radnor Has It All
In June of 2020, AFC Radnor was just an idea of Bryn Mawr fitness mogul Matt Littman. At the height of the pandemic, he was trying to ensure that two gyms in Feasterville and Bala Cynwyd were up to safety protocols while also dealing with the challenge of having to lay off 300 employees. Even when…
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Villanova Alum, Finance Guru Wants to Make Wealth Management More Accessible
Mical Jeanlys-White had a decade worth of experience as an executive at JPMorgan Chase & Co when she founded WealthMore. It’s a startup that is meant to give financial advice to people who usually don’t have access to it. Jeanlys-White’s parents immigrated to the U.S. form Haiti and is first-generation American. She says WealthMore is meant…
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Radnor Woman a Finalist in Tech Awards for Banking Platform
Luveen Sidhu of Radnor has been recognized for her leadership in developing BM Technologies, a digital banking platform that became publicly traded, writes Holly Herman for patch.com. Sidhu, founder and chairwoman of BM Technologies, BTMX, was selected as a finalist in the director of the year category for the US Fintech Awards 2022. An independent…
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SCORE: Celebrating Women-Owned Business Success: October 21
Women are starting and running small businesses at a record rate not experienced before in the US. They are doing this with noteworthy skill, expertise, and determination that has made women’s entrepreneurship a driving force in our national economy. Facts and figures are proof of the latest significant progress:* *Women in Business Statistics. Fundera www.fundera.com/resources/women-owned-business-statistics#…
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A McDonald’s Success Story–From Flipping Burgers to Millionaire
Tanya Renee Hill-Holliday is proof that flipping burgers can make you a millionaire, writes Jeremy M. Lazarus for the Richmond Free Press. She is currently the leading Black owner of McDonald’s franchises in the Philadelphia area with 12 stores. “I started as crew, you can, too,” she tells new employees, as she espouses the virtues…
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Lansdowne’s Tritan Soap Reaches Out to Queer, Trans Community
Jesse Brajuha launched Triton Soap & Skincare out of Lansdowne last November, filling a gap in the market for an inclusive queer and trans-owned brand of skin care products, writes Lisa Dukart for Philadelphia Business Journal. His entrepreneurial efforts started during the pandemic. He had earned a master’s degree in public health form Drexel University…
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