Business Success

Before she owned a gallery, Beth Dow was an artist who had been turned away from them. She will tell you this if you ask, and she won’t make much of it .

When Isaac Alvarez was in middle school, he spent his afternoons knocking on doors in his neighborhood, asking if he could mow lawns or shovel snow.

Eric founded ARCEM in 2012 after seeing the same pattern repeat itself. Technology wasn’t something businesses planned for. It was something they dealt with after it broke.

When temperatures plunged below zero during a 2022 Christmastime cold snap, phones at Camflo Heating & Cooling didn’t stop ringing.

In the summer sun of the 1980s, Diana Garcia learned what it meant to work. Her parents were migrant laborers from Mission, Texas, chasing the harvests across the country.

When a festivalgoer at the inaugural Free Spirited Festival posted online that she no longer needed alcohol to have fun, Rob Theodorow knew he had built something special.

Barbara Whitenight wasn’t expecting to find her next big idea when she walked into an axe-throwing venue on a summer trip to Kentucky. In fact, she wasn’t even sure she wanted to try throwing one.

In the early 2000s, Doug Cooper saw a gap—and an opportunity—in Greater Lafayette’s event scene. At the time, Cooper was running Sgt. Preston’s of the North, a popular downtown bar and grill.

When Chadd Gibson was 18, he was hard at work priming drywall and staining doors in newly built homes, earning just $3.25 an hour.