This Side Hustle Spotlight Q&A features 20-year-old college student Jacob Shaidle, founder of Ontario-based barbecue cleaning business Shaidle Cleaning. Responses have been edited for length and clarity. Courtesy of Shaidle Cleaning. Jacob Shaidle. What was your day job or primary occupation when you started your side hustle?I was a 15-year-old high school student when I...
“We are coffee-obsessed in Australia,” Tom Baker, co-founder of Mr Black Cold Brew Coffee Liqueur, tells Entrepreneur. “It’s like a religion. It’s a point of national identity.” Image Credit: Courtesy of Mr Black Cold Brew Coffee Liqueur. Tom Baker. After World War II, Italians immigrated to the country and brought espresso machines and European cafe...
Hey, local retailers, what’s on your mind? Entrepreneur wanted to know, so we partnered with Faire, an online wholesale marketplace where gift shops, pet stores, clothing boutiques, and other mom-and-pop shops source their products. Faire put five questions out to its retailers, and more than 1,200 responded — revealing their biggest concerns, wins, and what...
Imagine what a tattoo shop looks like. All My Heart does not look like that. The Charlotte, North Carolina, studio is airy and suffused with natural light. In the reception area, there are modular chairs, midcentury couches, and a vase of fresh flowers on a Japanese-influenced cabinet. But the real surprise goes beyond aesthetics. All...
Not long after Michael Levin graduated from Columbia Law School in 1985, he realized he didn’t want to be an attorney. “I worked briefly for two firms in Boston, was all but fired by the first and was sat down and fired by the second for not really belonging or having my head in the...
Melissa Ben-Ishay’s “love language” has always been baking. So, when she was fired from her advertising job at age 24, following her passion into business seemed like an ideal opportunity. Her brother Brian Bushell encouraged her to seize it. “We wound up creating an incredible product that makes people happy during good times and bad,”...
In 1996, Kim Malek, CEO and co-founder with her cousin Tyler Malek of craft ice cream company Salt & Straw, dreamed of opening an ice cream shop in Portland, Oregon. “When I moved here, I was struck by the experience of literally meeting people on the street who became some of my closest friends,” Kim...
This Side Hustle Spotlight Q&A features LeAnn Darland, 38, of Williamsburg, Brooklyn and Tara Hankinson, 37, of Bronxville, NY. Darland worked in finance operations at Google and Hankinson in customer experience strategy for The New York Times when they started the homebrewing side hustle that would become TALEA Beer Co. Responses have been edited for...
Women drive 70%-80% of consumer purchasing, and companies with at least one woman on their board have a higher return on equity than those that do not, the Women on Boards Project states on its website — yet women occupy just 20% of board seats globally and aren’t expected to reach gender parity for decades,...
Advait Shinde, co-founder and former CEO of educational software company GoGuardian, spent a decade building a business that optimizes digital learning experiences at scale — all the way to a $1 billion valuation. It began in 2014 when Shinde and his co-founders Aza Steel, R. Todd Mackey and Tyler Shaddix “accidentally timed the market perfectly,”...