Entrepreneurship
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Spotted Lanternflies Are Helping Create a Booming Business in Philadelphia. A Local Business Owner Details How
Bees in the Philadelphia region are taking the sticky secretion left behind by spotted lanternflies and turning it into honey — and local beekeepers are taking full advantage of it, writes Conner Barkon for KYW Newsradio. One of them is Don Shump, founder and owner of Philadelphia Bee Co., which has nine hive locations throughout…
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SCORE Offers Small Business Help with These March Workshops and Webinars
SCORE Chester and Delaware Counties is announcing several free workshops and webinars to help small business owners in March. The Mindset of a Successful Business Owner Only 20 percent of all businesses make it 5 years; this March 12, 11:30 AM to 1 PM webinar will provide crucial information to help you succeed! The webinar will…
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SCORE Offers Small Business Help With These March Workshops and Webinars
SCORE Chester and Delaware Counties is announcing several free workshops and webinars to help small business owners in March. What’s Your Digital Marketing Success Plan? On Tuesday, March 5, from 11:30 AM to 1 PM, learn how to map out a digital marketing strategy in this live online event to get more clients, better leads, and more…
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Learn About Business Insurance Basics From SCORE SCORE
SCORE Chester and Delaware Counties offers this February workshop to small business owners. Business Insurance Basics – What You Need to Know\ Join this Feb. 27 webinar at 1 PM to understand the various kinds of business insurance and what to consider when choosing it for your business. Business insurance is an important investment for any…
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SCORE Workshops Promote Maximum Small Business Health
SCORE Chester and Delaware Counties has February webinars and workshops with tools to promote maximum small business health. Attend SCORE webinars LIVE to participate in the Q&A and receive FREE business resources, including the presentation slides. Can’t attend live? Register anyway, and SCORE will send the replay. Mastering Small Business Taxes – A Startup Guide to Taxes Learn how to optimize your small…
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Belay, Philadelphia Startup That Sells Insurance Policies For Stock Investments, Prepares to Launch Direct-to-Consumer Product
Belay, a Philadelphia startup that sells insurance policies on stock investments, is preparing to launch its direct-to-consumer platform very soon, writes Ryan Mulligan for PHL Inno. The platform will initially launch to people on the waitlist before it becomes accessible to the general public in the first week of February. So far, the company’s insurance…
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West Chester University’s Cottrell Entrepreneurship Center Seeks “Big Ideas” for 2024 Idea Challenge
The 2024 Annual Business Idea Challenge at West Chester University is now open, and all ideas are welcome! $11,500 in prize money is being awarded at this year’s competition. Let your big idea become a reality by winning this competition and jumpstarting your business. Co-hosted by the Cottrell Entrepreneurship Center, the Keiretsu Forum Mid-Atlantic, and…
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Mentoring: From Idea to Successful Small Business Partnership!
During National Mentoring Month, SCORE praises entrepreneurs who harness the power of mentoring to launch their businesses. The best way to demonstrate this is to share an experience between two local visionary businessmen and their SCORE mentor. The Idea Rob Eldrege and Chip Mayo from Chester and Delaware Counties were on a mission in 2017…
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SCORE: Start 2024 Strong with These Small Business Workshops
SCORE Chester and Delaware Counties still has January 2024 SCORE webinars to give you the tools to help your small business. How to Gain Customers with a LinkedIn Company Page Do you: If so, join this Jan. 30, 11:30 to 1 PM webinar with live demos, so you leave with takeaways and actionable items whether you…
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After 70 Years, Lou’s Auto Parts in Trainer Closes Its Doors
The Kerezsi brothers have decided that 70 years is enough. They are shutting down their junkyard and auto business, Lou’s Auto Parts and Service, in Trainer, writes Peg DeGrassa for the Daily Times. The last day of business is Feb. 3. Brothers Lou, Jimmy, and Tom, along with their late brother David, worked with their…
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SCORE: Start 2024 Strong with These Small Business Workshops
SCORE Chester and Delaware Counties has January 2024 SCORE webinars and live presentations to give you the tools to help your small business. Federal Government Market Online Live Event (Fee) Learn what’s required to be a federal supplier, how to register as a federal small business, where to find opportunities, and how to market your product/service…
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Aldan Entrepreneur Charisse McGill Remembered for Her Successes and Sweetness
Charisse McGill, the creator and founder of French Toast Bites was a bright and familiar face in the business community, writes Vince Carey for the Daily Times. The upbeat entrepreneur was at the pinnacle of her success when she died suddenly in her Aldan home Monday. She was 42. McGill’s French Toast Bites were getting…
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Homemade Soy Candle Business Offers Unique Scents of Delco
The D3lco Effect company has created Scents of Delco homemade soy candles, writes Peg DeGrassa for the Daily Times. If you want to relive the fresh apple smell of Linvilla Orchards or revive the smells of the Jersey Shore, there’s a candle for that. What else? How about candles with names like Down by the…
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How Philly Pretzel Factory Went from Dan DiZio’s Childhood Venture to Soft Pretzel Empire
CEO and co-founder of Bensalem-based Philly Pretzel Factory Dan DiZio transformed a childhood venture into a national success story, reports Alicia Vitarelli for 6 ABC. It began with 11-year-old DiZio’s innocent truancy. “I used to sneak out of school… and go sell pretzels all day on the corner,” he reminisces. His entrepreneurial journey…
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SCORE: Start 2024 Strong With These Small Business Workshops
SCORE Chester and Delaware Counties has January 2024 SCORE webinars and live presentations to give you the tools to help your small business. Small Business Essentials-Evening Edition (Fee) These two live event webinars were developed to prepare you to make the decisions and plans needed to successfully launch and promote your business. Both webinars are taught…
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Forbes: Unprecedented Number of Entrepreneurs Opened Small Businesses in Past Three Years
Over the past three years, the nation has recorded an unprecedented boom in small businesses, with nearly 16 million new business applications submitted in that period, writes Rhett Buttle for Forbes. This represents a nearly 85 percent growth in the average flow of monthly applications compared to the period between 2004 – when the U.S.…
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SCORE: Start 2024 Strong With These Small Business Workshops
SCORE Chester and Delaware Counties has January webinars and live presentations to give you the tools to help your small business. Small Business Essential Series–Evening Edition (Fee) This 3-part series was developed to prepare you to make the decisions and plans needed to successfully launch and promote your business. This live event webinar series begins Jan.…
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Sallie Abelson Developed Popular Trivia Game to Teach Jewish History
Sallie Kochin Abelson, known as the creator of the Jewish trivia game Aliyah, died Dec. 23 at age 78, writes Gary Miles for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Ms. Abelson, who grew up in Havertown and who graduated Haverford High School in 1963, created Aliyah in 1978 to make Jewish education more exciting and accessible. The idea…
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