We love grabbing drinks with our entrepreneur friends because they always have the craziest stories. Sometimes it’s a big, unexpected win. Other times it’s a problem that came out of nowhere and couldn’t possibly have been foreseen. There is so much to learn from these stories and so we asked some of the brightest entrepreneurs and creatives in the community to share some of those stories below.

Kellie Phelan

Prior to March 2020 100% of my business was built on gathering in person. We closed our doors before it was mandated because it felt like the right thing to do. Then the question became, what is community when we can’t be together in person? And how can we continue to keep our vision alive when 100% of our revenue has disappeared overnight? Read more>>

Barry Harris

Well I’ll start from the beginning. Even though I wanted my studio to function like an Air Bnb, in the beginning stages, I would always go there to do remote work for my full time job. It wasn’t only for the fact that I finally had my own office now, but also to monitor how individuals interact with the whole smart studio concept. Read more>>

Olivia Bordone

Back in Mexico, when I was doing doggie day care and dog training at my house I saw Floki one of my regular dog client on my driveway staring at the front door. At first I panicked thinking he scaped from my house so I ran and brought him inside. I noticed he had several scratches so I asked my doggie helper what happened and was when I realized wasn’t the day that he came regularly. Read more>>

Chloe Barnes

One silly little video changed my life. I started creating content to market my business early on — it felt like the most natural way for me to get clients, and after having some success making videos on TikTok for my personal account, I thought I’d have a go at it and see where it took me. Read more>>

Constantin SOARE

We have started the Ghost Ice product launch in March of 2020 right at the beginning of the pandemic and we were so scared and afraid that all our work its going to go to waste because of that. A couple of months later our sales started to go high because of the need of cheap, fast and good ice and also because most of the bars either closed or they had to cut down on expenses. Read more>>

Victoria Strength

This is one of my fondest and craziest memories from the beginning of my business venture. When I was located in Western New York, I had a client who needed a “smash cake” for their child’s first birthday photo shoot. This photoshoot was happening in the winter time, and for Western NY, that means snow… Read more>>