Business owners with a product to sell often dream of winning shelf space in the Wal-Marts and Targets of the world. But these days,→

On a recent Tuesday morning, Lev Ekster paced around his future storefront in Manhattan’s newly opened Limelight Marketplace. He adjusted the 1960s kitchen-kitsch inspired→

When Angelia Kane graduated from college she went straight into freelancing. She started with web design, which eventually evolved into consulting. However, it was→

The Miami Herald reports that Zalmi Duchman never went to college, financed his business on his credit card, and can’t even taste the food→

Mitchell York, About.com’s Entrepreneur Guide recently discovered an entrepreneur who is rolling in dough…pizza dough. I recently attended a charity event on eastern Long→

If you’ve been to Times Square in New York, you might have noticed an Old West-style showdown going on. On one side: The Naked→

Mile Meter likes to think of itself as the “anti-insurance insurance company.” It sells auto insurance by the mile — which means that the→

According to the New York Daily News, Beck Johnson had a business plan, his startup funding a dream of opening an ice cream stand,→

Like a lot of small business owners in early 2009, Ruth Klahsen found herself desperately seeking capital and finding nothing but refusal everywhere she→

According to a story at CNNMoney, Katherine Woo was hanging out with two former PayPal coworkers at her San Francisco loft last spring, brainstorming→

There’s an old saying that drinking doesn’t make you fat, it makes you lean — against bars, tables, chairs and poles. That joke may→

According to a story in BusinessWeek, Andre Woolery had already done a lot—starting an IT company, opening a Caribbean restaurant, and enrolling at Stanford→

Renee Wood says she’s used to weeping at work. She runs an online bereavement-gift outfit, Comfort Co., from suburban Geneva and gets calls all→

Her father, renowned linguist Dr. Paul Pimsleur, was the brains behind a language learning system that bears his last name. So when Julia Pimsleur→

The harmonica may seem as American as the blues. But for years, virtually every harmonica in the U.S. was made somewhere else, with Germany’s→

BusinessWeek reports that Angie Onassis Parlionas admits she was “obsessed with lip gloss as a kid.” But between softball games and wrestling matches, she→

When Brett Stern sees a problem, he fixes it. A lifelong tinkerer, the 50-year-old inventor used his expertise in industrial design to market snack→

Start-up Aardvark had an idea to develop a social search engine, in which people could ask a question via instant messenger and then Aardvark→

Little did Joseph Morgan know his hobby would develop into a growing business. “Whenever I can grab a pole and go down to the→

The afternoon sun beats down on the rocky hills and quicksand pits that surround the still, gray-blue body of water, which is flanked by→