Jennifer Labit identified a critical need and launched a business
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How Steve Burke took risks to start and grow AIRman
Initially, Steve Burke simply had a hobby in his garage and basement but that interest evolved into AIRman Inc. in 1995. He saw opportunities and the need for pneumatic control systems and actuators, so he decided to take a big risk and start the company. Shortly after he began the business, he realized he would […]
What the shortage in skilled manufacturing workers means to a hungry industry
A convergence of factors is giving the manufacturing industry headaches in the labor department
How Nagesh Palakurthi grew Angstrom Holdings
With an engineering background at the Ford Motor Co., Nagesh Palakurthi’s first inspiration was an innovative concept to OEMs and Tier-1s called full vehicle balancing. While the concept attracted tremendous traction within the automotive community, the scope and logistics were too large for a start-up entrepreneur in 2000. So as an offshoot of the concept, […]
Dennis Stripe helped grow OrthoHelix Surgical Designs
How to grow a company
How Rich Stanbaugh identified new opportunities to grow ANX
Rich Stanbaugh joined ANXeBusiness Corp. in 2000 as vice president of strategic initiatives and began leading the creation of a new transaction services product. Today, that product represents about 15 percent of the company’s revenue at greater than 90 percent gross margin. But his accomplishments go much further than that single statistic as he’s been […]
Roy Church sustains entrepreneurship at Lorain County Community College
How LCCC supports local businesses
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 […]