It’s wild out there and the struggle is real. Entrepreneurship is no joke, everyday is a new challenge, a new up, a new down, it never stops. The action, the drama, the energy is addictive and it’s why so many never want to retire from entrepreneurship. We’ve asked some very talented entrepreneurs to share some of those crazy stories with us.

Mike Curphy

About a year ago we were in Cabo San Lucas taking a break from our work here. Every day we would be in the pool having a cocktail and near the end of our trip my wife asked me a question about making liquor. Her question was “since you make all of those great whiskeys, why don’t you make something that I would like.” Read more>>

Kit Goldstein

When I was straight out of college and living in my hometown of Schenectady, NY, I was commissioned by the Schenectady Theater for Children to write a musical for young audiences for their company to tour to schools. This went well, and so the next year I returned to write another… Read more>>

Amy Reade

My doorbell rang. My dog went nuts. Read more>>

Andal Balu

We started to design, develop, manufacture and market specialty equipment to make craft chocolate from cocoa beans (called Bean to Bar chocolate) in 2006. We were creating a machine for a very niche market and were selling to customers who came looking for us. In 2009, we formed CocoaTown as a subsidiary of Inno Concepts Inc (our parent company). Read more>>

Erica White

One if not the most wonderful thing about being in private practice is that I have the opportunity to work with individuals on a deeper level. I have more time to devote to them and that has led to some really great outcomes. I had a client who was a young mother with addiction issues and through the six months of representing her I really got to connect with her on a deeper level and see her transform and break away from her addiction. She was facing up to 48 years in prison when I met her. It was an absolutely terrifying sentence hanging over head. Read more>>