How Art Van Elslander grew a furniture store from what he learned as a teenager
How Art Van Elslander turned Art Van Furniture into Michigan’s No. 1 furniture retailer and America’s largest independent furniture retailer
How Carl Erickson founded and grew Atomic Object from a failed dot-com
From a failed dot-com start-up, Carl Erickson and Bill Bereza took three interns, second-hand furniture and the remainder of a lease from the ashes of that company and from it built Atomic Object, a software product development company. Erickson had been a professor for 10 years and was less than impressed by the status quo […]
Tech savvy
The challenge of executing on a business strategy with limited resources
How Brad Oleshansky transformed Big Communications
Not many people would leave a successful career in California and move their family to Detroit to work for a mom-and-pop business, but Brad Oleshansky isn’t like most people. He’s run with the bulls in Spain, participated in a triathlon, sold popcorn with his son’s Boy Scout troop and even brokered a “relationship” between his […]
Connecting the thoughts
How Matt Moog reimagined consumer feedback with Viewpoints Network
Charlie Hall works hard to make Buddeez a household word
How to work with your people to grow your business
Hospice of Western Reserve started serving 18 patients, but now serves 6,000
How to grow an organization
How Vince Thomas worked grew Billhighway from an attic
In 1999, Vince Thomas was just a college student with a dream. He started his business, which would become Billhighway, out of an attic when he developed a technology to manage his college roommates’ expenses. He quickly saw a broader business need to integrate technology and financial performance into a cash management, accounting and payment […]
Scott and Steven Balogh helped turn around Mar-Bal Inc.
How to turn a company around
How Jeffery Prough is transforming the future of health care at Critical Signal Technologies
When Jeffrey Prough founded Critical Signal Technologies Inc. (CST) in 2006, he had just a handful of investors to back the health care technology startup. The problem wasn’t convincing people of his vision — applying technology to provide cost-effective health care solutions that give older adults, the disabled and chronically ill more autonomy — but […]