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New England Sign Setters was started to solve a problem for real estate agents and brokers in the Northeast. In 2013, Kevin Bochner was working in real estate when he realized that most agents and brokers were self-installing signs to list properties. He decided to start up his own sign setting and removal business to service the market of realtors in his area. In the seven years that th...

Katie Wilson and Scott Grover opened Touch Art Supply in June of 2019. They had lived in the Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles for about six years and realized there isn't an art supply shop nearby. Since they are both artists with experience in retail, they decided to go for it. They carry an assortment of products that range from essential to artist grade materials. Their produ...

PPE Dude carries sanitizer, disinfectant, masks, and more, like tents for testing locations. The PPE Dude sticker is a superhero-like rendition of the owner Brian Ginsberg, who started PPE Dude as a division of Photobooth Backdrops. Brian's PPE service is able to help this customer base navigate the safety protocols for COVID concerns. In the five or so months since Personal Protective E...

[caption id="attachment_123651" align="alignnone" width="770"] Image Courtesy of Central Coast Creamery[/caption] The Victory Cheese Project is a volunteer, grassroots collective of cheese professionals – including cheesemakers, cheesemongers, chefs, and cheese guilds from across the country. They’ve come together to help their struggling industry, which has been deeply affected by Covid-19,...

Rich Jackson came up with the idea for Skinny Pete's Gourmet Catnip in the dead of a Michigan winter after working a full day in a local coffeeshop on a 3D animation project. He pulled into his yard and noticed a forlorn catnip plant in the corner of the yard, and his mind wandered to a recent news story he'd read about the pet gift business category growing into a three-billion dollar i...

Darnell Brown has always loved entrepreneurship. Since age 12, he's been working hard, whether he was selling pecans in the fall, mowing lawns in the summer or drawing family portraits. His current projects demonstrate his entrepreneurial range. He co-founded LETELLIER Skincare, a brand conceived by his wife Kim who is a master aesthetician. He has his own brand & entrepreneurship co...

Christy Batta is a graphic designer and branding expert for nonprofits and businesses doing good work for others. She's also a community instigator and stripes enthusiast based in Hyattsville, MD. She helps organize @SSLetters, which is a group of hand lettering enthusiasts that meets monthly in Silver Spring, MD. She also helps run the Silver Spring Time Bank, a community association that...

Ellie Lum is the founder, pattern designer, and head educator at Klum House. With over twenty years of professional bag making experience, she draws on her roots in the industrial sewing industry to make heavy-duty bag making fun and accessible to home stitchers. We covered their story when we wrote about the matte labels they printed up for a DIY dopp kit for sale on their web store. Over...

Tony Ponte grew up as a second-generation Italian whose grandparents were farmers in southern Italy before coming to America. His family spent years in the coffee business where he grew up in Connecticut, but he didn't see his future in the family trade. That all changed after a few years and a few different jobs across the country. Tony found himself inspired as he watched his close fri...