Entrepreneurship
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UAS Breathes New Life into the Old J.W. Pepper & Son Building
Universal Atlantic Systems Inc. is renovating the building behind Paoli Hospital that was previously the home of J.W. Pepper & Son sheet music, to turn it into its new operations center, writes Brian McCullough for Daily Local News. After the original tenant moved to a smaller office in Exton three years ago, the vacant 54,000-square-foot…
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West Chester Serial Entreprenuer’s B Corp Surpasses Startup Goal by Sixfold
Chester County serial entrepreneur Anthony Gold’s newest venture roared to life with a crowdfunding campaign that not only struck a chord with safety-minded customers but surpassed its $40,000 startup goal by more than sixfold. His and Co-Founder Yasmine Mustafa’s ROAR for Good, a social-mission maker of fashionable safety jewelry, met their 30-day goal in 30…
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Former Jets Player Leading the Blitz Against Concussions from Chester Springs
From Hollywood to the halls of the federal judiciary, corporate America is sending an all-out blitz against the sporting world’s concussion epidemic, and one of the leading tacklers is Chester Springs’ Defend Your Head. CEO and former New York Jets lineman John Roman is no stranger to hard hits, and his company has just launched…
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Main Line Deodorant Entrepreneurs Get a Whiff of Big-Time Success After Shark Tank Appearance
A homemade recipe to keep body odor away without irritating skin was smelling of nothing but sweet success for a Lower Merion High School alumna and her childhood friend-turned-business partner. Until they appeared on the hit ABC show “Shark Tank.” The primetime TV spotlight is now putting that odor-fighting formula to the test, as “Shark…
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Conestoga High School Grad Morgan Snyder Makes Forbes’ ’30 Under 30′ with Sweet Bites
Morgan Snyder, graduate of Conestoga High School and social entrepreneur, is the second Chester County native to be included in the prestigious Forbes ‘30 Under 30’ list. A University of Pennsylvania senior and a member of the Conestoga High School class of 2011, Snyder has been named a co-honoree with her business partner, Spencer Penn,…
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West Chester Entrepreneur Builds Time Machine (Sort Of)
Everyone loves the occasional stroll down memory lane, and now there’s an app for that. A West Chester entrepreneur’s Time Machine Tours now allows you to walk back in time through self-guided tours that take history out of the archives and into modern life on your iPhone or iPad. “The goal of the app is…
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West Goshen’s Artisanal Exchange Is Cooking Up Entrepreneurial Success
An entrepreneurial duo in West Goshen has discovered the perfect recipe for instant success in the artisanal food industry, and their 3-year-old Artisanal Exchange has cooked up more than 70 new startups and 135 jobs — with a success rate above 90 percent. It’s a setup that puts the national-average 50 percent failure rate to…
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Teen Entrepreneur Lights Up Downingtown
Noelle Wiggins, a 16 year old Chester County native, is already the owner of her own company, Jiluminary, an eco-conscious artificial lighting company based in Downingtown. After taking over the reins of the company on October 1st this year, she then sold 2,800 units of this innovative lighting product in just the first month. Wiggins,…
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Embattled State Attorney General Files Lawsuit Against Failed West Chester Kickstarter
In a case that proves that sometimes you really can have too much of a good thing, the State Attorney General’s Office has decided to file a lawsuit against Radiate Athletics, the West Chester based sports apparel company, for failing to deliver on all of the prepaid orders from its wildly successful Kickstarter campaign. …
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Which Four Chester County Companies Made Philly Mag’s ‘Coolest’ List?
Garnering national — or international — attention, playing with cutting-edge technology and altering the business landscape are each just plain cool in their own right. But four Chester County businesses have pioneered those frontiers to perfection, placing them among the elite honored by Philadelphia Magazine as Philly’s Coolest Companies 2015. QVC, AmerisourceBergen, Victory Brewing Co.…
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Omne Solutions Fits Businesses with Tailored Applications
It’s a gritty business, scraping together the complex stuff that visionary dreams are built on, but Media’s Omne Solutions has assembled the kind of team that turns rough-hewn ideas for web and mobile apps into precious, polished gems that are customized, simplified and seamlessly integrated with powerful interactive tools. “Omne is a back-end development firm;…
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Chester County Rocks PBJ’s List Of Coolest Companies
Chester County leads the way in cool corporations as four companies from Chester County have been included in the compilation of Philly’s Coolest Companies 2015 by Philadelphia Magazine. Months in the making, the list of twenty highlights companies that have dynamic leaders, innovative projects and a disruptive corporate culture which is tied together by an…
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Entrepreneurs Bring Social Mission To Life With ROAR For Good
A bold new product line as socially transformative as it is personally empowering is roaring to life today with the launch of its mission-driven crowdfunding campaign led by Chester County serial entrepreneur Anthony Gold and fellow innovator Yasmine Mustafa. On Tuesday, the duo behind ROAR for Good is unveiling their flagship product Athena, the high-tech…
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Courts Side with AcademyOne in Information Theft Suit
The Malvern-based provider of smarter student guidance solutions just navigated its own way around a landmine that could have cut its future short. AcademyOne recently received a favorable court decision in a case of alleged information theft. “It became pretty apparent very quickly that this case wasn’t about the merits, it was about putting AcademyOne…
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Chester County Daily News: Business Briefs
VISTA Today Business Briefs are concise stories connecting you with what’s happening around the county. This morning: Chester County Commissioners Take Part in Testing of the New Public Safety Communication System The Chester County Commissioners recently visited the Embreeville voice radio tower where they participated in the first of 25 field acceptance tests for the…
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Philly Investors Eager To See How DecisionSim’s Future Plays Out
Investors in Philadelphia have crunched the numbers and run simulations on the future prospects for a young but growing health care learning simulation software maker in Chadds Ford, and the optimistic grade it received has translated into nearly $2 million of Series A funding for DecisionSim. “We were attracted to DecisionSim, Inc., because of the…
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Tina O’Conner: Starting Your Own Business
By Tina O’Conner Last week’s post focused on a change in employment and encouraging taking a risk. This week one of the risks to possibly consider is starting your own business. A wonderful organization that can support you through the entire process is SCORE of Chester County. SCORE provides one-on-one counseling and workshops to help…
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Chadds Ford Inventor Adam Roch Wins Top Prize At Nation’s Largest Show
Worried your swelteringly hot clothes dryer might someday spontaneously combust? Don’t sweat it; a Chadds Ford man has just the product to keep your head — and laundry room — cool in the event disaster strikes. Adam Roch’s invention, the Life Saver clothes dryer fire autodetector and extinguisher, was the coolest device at the entire…
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