Small Business and Entrepreneurs

Charlie Sealy III, who has led the charge to bring more residents to downtown Huntsville with recent loft developments, was raised in the real...

In 1989, at the height of Bo Jackson’s success as a star in two professional sports, Nike unveiled an advertising campaign that greatly exaggerated...

When Roger Fritz recently relocated to Alabama — to Fairhope, on Mobile Bay — the state reclaimed the business of a master luthier —...

Chicken and Southern business empires seem practically synonymous.  In the 1930s, Colonel Sanders began selling fried chicken from a roadside restaurant in Corbin, Ky....

Like most executives’ offices, David Bronner’s is equipped with all the necessary supplies to get him through a typical workday, which in Bronner’s case...

If Jim Busby were to write a book, it might be called “How to tinker your way onto the New York Stock Exchange.” While the...

Robert Van de Graaff demonstrates a 1.5 million-volt electrostatic generator at an alumni dinner in a ballroom at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1933. Robert...

Drew Ann Long saw a problem and fixed it. The Alabaster mom was frustrated when her trips to the store included an entourage of helpers...

Virtually everything we consider essential to daily life started with an idea. There’s a fine line between crazy and ingenious, yet some of the...

Make Less A Lot More  >>  Andrew Freear Andrew Freear apologizes for being late for an appointment. He was on a roof laying sheets of...