Entrepreneurship

Startup Spotlight: The Sangria Shop to open next week

Now that all the licenses are in hand, the negotiations with vendors completed and recipes tweaked The Sangria Shop is ready to open its doors next week to let everyone else taste what the owner's friends have been raving about.

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Once organic farmers, now jewelers for whom ethical and green standards are highly prized, Kara Aubin and Daniel Juzwiak work to create custom pieces that make the most of their collaboration. Amie Heasley reports.

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A Second Round: Craft brewers keep it local with Michigan ingredients

Many Southwest Michigan brewers are choosing to source their ingredients from area farms or in some cases even ingredients they grow themselves. Jeremy Martin finds it is a growing trend with room to grow.

Start Garden meets Startup Zoo in happy hour event
Making it anywhere: Crowdfunding fuels startup companies in surprising places

Crowdfunding is big and likely to grow even bigger in the next few years as new sites launch. Meet some of the people across the Midwest, including a couple from Portage, who are enjoying a little help from their crowd of friends.

Teenage entrepreneur Daniel Brusilovsky to visit Kalamazoo
Second Wave Super Star: Geek Easy combines business and fun

Growing a business for the guys at Geek Easy has been -- dare we say it -- Geek Easy. Fran Wilcox talks with Nate Welling and Silvano Vanegas to find out how their Apple expertise has paid off.

New salon is dream come true for owners in Niles
The city as a startup: Talent, capital and culture required

What do successful cities and startups have in common? Here are a few ideas. Let's think this through.

Game creator is jobs creator: S2 Games clicks in both

Billboards and fireworks are two ways S2 Games is letting the greater Kalamazoo area know that the company has gorilla power when it comes to growing jobs. Kathy Jennings talks with the company's Shawn Tooley about its plans.

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