Starting and growing a business is hard, but often deciding to start the business in the first place is even harder. We asked some successful entrepreneurs from around the community to open up to us about how they thought about starting a business.

Aaron Aldhizer

This is honestly probably off brand for me. I’m a very details oriented person (I even plan out the timeline for my couples if they don’t have a planner), but….

Quite honestly, if you asked my parents, as a child I told them I would never run my own business. Wasn’t interested in it. It was too much work, wouldn’t be good at the non-creative side of things, yada, yada. Read More>>

Selina Jackson

During Covid, I had a lot of time to explore and practice hobbies in the house. I sat on social media longing for the days when we could go outside again and started fantasizing about coffee shops. I began looking on Instagram for a Columbus specific coffee page but only found food blogging pages. I decided that I would be the one to start a page where people could go and see all the coffee shops in the city in one place. And the rest is history! Read More>>

 J’nez Thomas

I started the company in 2022 and was inspired by my move to Cleveland from Philadelphia, PA where I noticed my favorite services weren’t available! I immediately started looking for brand recognition (preferably SugaringNYC). Due to my sensitive skin and customer loyalty, I would make the drive to Michigan (the nearest Sugaring NYC at the time) for a service. I thought, if I am need of all natural hair removal services, then others are too! Read More>>

Cole Carpenter

The hardest decision I ever had was to go full-time with content creation. I’d been doing it freelance for several years and working full-time doing the same type of work, but early in 2023, I had to decide if I would take the plunge, and it honestly was the best decision I ever made! Read More>>