Full CirKle Media: The Business Of Internet Radio

Urban Mosaics: Being Natural = Being Empowered

August 17, 2012 by Annie Bowers

As I sit here in my new salmon-colored t-shirt, sporting the word “honey” across the front (a term of endearment used for fly girls) I realize this is exactly the feeling Stacy Edey was trying to achieve when she set out to start her own innovative t-shirt company: I feel beautiful; I feel comfortable; I feel like me. According to Edey, her clothing line, Urban Mosaics “promotes the indefinable beauty of natural textured hair signified by abstract works of wearable art, and instills a paradigm shift in the conscious mind.” What does all of that mean? It means that Stacy figured out … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Dayton Entrepreneurs

New Businesses Popping Up Downtown

April 26, 2012 by Downtown Dayton Partnership

Peace on Fifth in the Oregon Arts District is a success story from the pilot phase of Activated Spaces' Pop-Up Project.

Three businesses will be up and running by May 4, the next First Friday art hop downtown, as part of the second phase of the Pop-Up Project, part of an initiative to fill downtown Dayton storefronts called Activated Spaces. The businesses selected for the second phase of the project are: • American π, 37 S. St. Clair St.: This gift and accessories boutique will carry items made in the United States, including handbags, greeting cards, candles and food items. The store will be open Tuesday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. • Arin, 27 S. St. … [Read more...]

Mike-Sell’s: A Case For Success

February 6, 2012 by Yvette Kelly-Fields

Countdown to the 2012 updayton Summit! updayton is committed to lighting the entrepreneurial fire of young talent. Over the next three months leading up to the 2012 Summit, updayton will present stories of emerging entrepreneurs and family legacies in business, and why they call Dayton the best place to do business. Daniel W. Mikesell started a successful business selling dried beef and sausage but when he decided to expand and answered an ad to purchase a potato-cutting machine, he had no idea it would turn into a multi-million dollar enterprise that would span 100 years and counting. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Dayton Entrepreneurs, The Featured Articles

The Trick To Being Lucky

September 2, 2011 by Dayton Most Metro

(The following was submitted by Christina M. Dyer as part of the updayton Entrepreneurship Team) Drew Trick had a vision: A comfortable place where people can enjoy a wide variety of draught beer and eat fresh food with their friends and family, as well as see couple-hundred model cars. On October 23, 2010, Trick made this dream a reality, purchasing what is now known as Lucky’s Taproom and Eatery, located in the Oregon Arts District. When he walked in the building for the first time, Drew Trick knew he had to remodel a restaurant that had been established by many other owners before. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Dayton Dining, Dayton Entrepreneurs Tagged With: updayton Entrepreneurship Team

The Power of Once

June 28, 2011 by Dayton Most Metro

(The following was submitted by Anna Ritchie from updayton) Starting your own business can be a terrifying thought. In 2004, Christian Prince set aside those fears and went full speed ahead with his dream. He started Acclimate Technologies, a supply chain software design company that allows data transmission between businesses with no human interaction. The software Prince has created with his colleagues enables other corporations such as Walmart and Honda to move data efficiently and cheaply, using fewer resources with the lowest number of human errors. Since starting his company, Price … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Dayton Entrepreneurs

Showdown Visual to Open Downtown Location

March 22, 2011 by Kristen Wicker

Showdown Visual will join a growing community of creative services firms when it opens a downtown office in April.

Visual media production company Showdown Visual, which recently won 11 prestigious Hermes Awards, will join a growing community of creative services firms located in downtown Dayton when it opens an office in a renovated space at 124 E. Third St. in mid-April. “We are excited to move downtown to be around so many of our clients, as well as other design firms,” said Kenny Mosher, co-founder of Showdown Visual. “Also, our new space provides the exact creative environment we need.” Indeed, the move will put Showdown Visual in the company of a dozen creative services firms located in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Dayton Entrepreneurs, Downtown Dayton Tagged With: Dayton Ohio, Downtown Dayton, Young Professional

Aaron Kim and the Xenia China Inn

March 17, 2011 by Dayton Most Metro

The following was submitted by Juliette Rocheleau of the updayton Entrepreneurship Team, and is the second in a series of articles about Dayton-area entrepreneurs. Xenia China Inn was a Chinese restaurant found on Main Street in Xenia, Ohio for twenty years. In early 2008, the family business shut its doors and left many with sad hearts and growling stomachs. At the end of 2010, Aaron Kim re-opened Xenia China Inn at a new location (417 W. Second Street, Xenia, OH 45385). The surrounding parts of Dayton perked up at the prospect of once again enjoying the Inn’s cuisine. Kim … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Dayton Entrepreneurs Tagged With: updayton Entrepreneurship Team

Bizually Stimulating and YP Friendly. Dayton. That. Is.

February 2, 2011 by Shana Douglas

This is the first in a series of articles geared towards promoting that young people start thinking out of the “help me” box. Help yourself by believing in your ideas and moving forward with your venture. I’m not flipping the bird on your desire to keep existing businesses here in Dayton as well as young professionals in the area, but waiting on some big government push is not the answer. Take a realistic approach and social responsibility for what’s happening in YOUR region. Be the force that drives attention our way and a catalyst for growth our innovative city. In the midst … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Dayton Entrepreneurs, From Jersey to Dayton, With Love

Donerik Black and the Dayton Weekly News

January 10, 2011 by Dayton Most Metro

The following was submitted by Juliette Rocheleau of the updayton Entrepreneurship Team, and is their first of several future feature articles about Dayton-area entrepreneurs. Co-owner of the Dayton Weekly News, Donerik Black knows that being an entrepreneur is no easy task. The Dayton Weekly News celebrated its seventeenth year in circulation this November, with Black juggling the duties of project manager salesman, designer and more. While the different tasks of entrepreneurship can be demanding, Black admitted in most other professions he would, “be bored to death.” A native of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Dayton Entrepreneurs Tagged With: updayton Entrepreneurship Team