Laura Roeder, CEO of MeetEdgar, began working for herself when she was 22, driven by the promise of freedom and control of her own time. Growing up in Austin, Texas, Laura saw examples of entrepreneurship in her parents, an architect father and a mom, who was...
For Monaica Ledell, entrepreneurship was a birthright. She saw her parents, both entrepreneurs , go from extreme poverty to building a business that enabled them to care for their family and send each of their four daughters to college. ...
As gifted as she is, it still took a while for Kim Coles to realize that as an actor, comedian and author, she is an entrepreneur and her very own brand. In 2010, she finally began to embrace the power and agency that entrepreneurship affords her. But in 2007, Kim was...
From the very beginning, Kala Maxym has gone in and out of different worlds. Early on, it was during her time growing up in Germany, where she was born and raised, as she traveled the world with her mother and father, who was a classical music conductor. Then it...
Cyndie Spiegel grew up in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, and remembers the struggles her family experiences to make ends meet financially. But what the Brooklyn resident also remembers are the years that her mom was an entrepreneur as owner of a local arcade, and how that...