Success stories
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Houndstooth House, LLC 2023 South Dakota Small Business Persons of the Year
Founded by Denise Cotter and Michelle Marino in 2005, Houndstooth House, LLC provides a wide variety of design services from inspiration to installation for residential and commercial clients. Denise...
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Blend Interactive, Inc. 2022 South Dakota Small Business Person of the Year
Early in the 1990’s, Karla Santi recognized the potential within the web development industry and started her own firm, Santi Interactive. In 2005, Karla “blended” her company and Blend Interactive...
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12 Huts and Counting for Army Veteran Jayme Rhodes
The stars aligned in Afghanistan, a hammer and blueprints forecasting the future for Army veteran Jayme Rhodes. Rhodes, now commander of Serviam Construction, still collects double takes from industry...
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SBA and SCORE Create Recipe for Sweet Success
Whipping up one-of-a-kind pastries is a piece of cake for Tatiana Polay. The New York-educated and employed pastry chef regularly frosted and adorned cakes for famed fashion icon Vera Wang. The...
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Hispanic-Owned Construction Company Helps Other Women Build Solid Businesses
Ines Rivas-Hutchins started her construction business in 2014 after having some great experiences working for others in the construction industry. Before starting her company, a mentor and former boss...
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Winooski Market Tends To Immigrants’ Tastes
Recognizing a void in the market and filling it is one of the true traits of an entrepreneur. Filling the void doesn’t need to be complex either. One doesn’t need to establish a new e-currency market...
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Huntsville, Greg Brown, Co-CEO of Brown Precision, Inc. named SBA’s 2022 Alabama Small Business Person of the Year
For more than 50 years, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) has celebrated National Small Business Week (NSBW), which recognizes the critical contributions of America’s entrepreneurs and...
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North Alabama Family-Owned Cotton Business received PPP and Continues to Grow Exponentially
Mark Yeager, who owns Red Land Farms started growing cotton in the 1980’s and in 2016, he had teamed up with his daughter, Anna Yeager Brakefield, to form Red Land Cotton, a cotton-based products...