Stick to your core principles and focus on making products that you make well and are passionate about. Stacie is CEO and owner of Bilinski Sausage Co, a third-generation family business, headquartered in Cohoes, New York. Under her direction, Bilinski’s transformed from a regional old-world sausage company to a …
Know your numbers, get the facts, then outwork the world! Jimmy John Liautaud is the founder of Jimmy John’s, a sandwich chain that prides itself on “Freaky Fresh” ingredients and “Freaky Fast” service. In January 1983, he opened his first store. Through hard work, tenacity, good taste buds, and …
Peter Yang is a millennial entrepreneur, a second-generation restaurateur and the co-founder and Chief Development Officer of Pokeworks. Yang was exposed to the restaurant industry at a young age, with parents who owned their own successful restaurant and having started working in a restaurant with a workers permit at age …
Focus on your core and try to please that one guest you have in mind. This creates the quality in what you do while serving the needs of your target market. Pedro “Pete” Mora is the passionate founder and owner of Fajita Pete’s, the Houston, Texas-based fajita delivery chain. …
Never say never…nothing can stop you if you put your mind to it. Rowena Scherer founded eat2explore to teach her kids and kids around the world about different cuisines and countries while having fun. Rowena is a busy working mom in New York City who grew up cooking with …
Talk to your target market first to decide what to sell based on what they say they will buy, don’t invent it in a vacuum. Alison Mountford is the Founder and CEO of Ends+Stems, a meal planning service designed to reduce household food waste and stop the effects of …
Negative talk while starting a business can hamper your momentum, which makes everything harder. Being positive doesn’t necessarily make anything easier, but it does give you more energy and clarity to get things done. Aaliyah Nitoto is the founder, CEO, and winemaker of Free Range Flower Winery, an award-winning, …
Patience, patience, and then, patience. The time will come, when all the sacrifices will make sense, and when the “why’s” will be explained. And it will all feel natural, and when the sentence “hard work comes easy” will say it all. Umberto Luchini was former Chief Marketing Officer for …
Never stop learning. Sharpening your axe (or mind, in this case) is crucial. If you’re weak in an area, surround yourself with experts who have experience in that field and learn how they operate. Matt has an awful case of ADD, which seems to play out nicely for his …
Take in as much information as possible because it gives you confidence that you’re making the best and most educated decision possible for the situation, or in this case, for your business. Richard “Richie” Harrington is the founder and CEO of Vaital Organics, a Los Angeles-based health and wellness …