Success stories
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Adjusting the Lens
Black entrepreneur starts media mogul journey with help from an SBA-backed small business loan and makes it his mission to increase multicultural perspectives and storytelling to the newsroom After...
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Local Professor Beats Cancer and Fulfills Childhood Dream
Not even cancer could deter Larry Tavlarides from living out his childhood dream. In 2008, at age 30, the local adjunct business professor was diagnosed with Stage 2 Non-Hodgkins lymphoma, a cancer of...
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Maine 2024 Small Business Person of the Year, Matt Polstein, New England Outdoor Center
While people from away might only see Maine as the place to visit the coast and get a lobster roll, Mainers and fellow New Englanders know that our state also has some of the best outdoor activities...
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New England 2024 Minority Owned Small Business of the Year Maiz
While Maine might not jump out as the place to find good Colombian food, Maiz and its owners Niky Amaris and Martha Leonard are proving that assumption wrong. The couple met ten years ago in Cartagena...
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Maine 2024 Small Business Manufacturer of the Year The Good Crust
Starting a business at any time is an incredible challenge and a courageous act, starting a business in 2020 in the midst of the Covid pandemic even more so. That was the case for Heather Kerner with...
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Maine 2024 Woman Owned Small Business of the Year Tiller & Rye
Opening a grocery store may seem like a relatively straightforward path to business ownership, but with Tiller & Rye there is much more to it. Owners Sarah and Lindsey came from very different...
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Maine 2024 Microenterprise of the Year Graze, LLC
Hearing the phrase “Maine made” or “Maine grown” tends to evoke a sense of wholesome, quality products that are good for you. Kate Hall’s business, Graze, lives up to that reputation easily...
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Maine Small Business Exporter of the Year Belle Cove
If there is one Maine product that is instantly recognizable as ours nationwide and around the world, it’s lobsters, and that makes them integral to Maine’s coastal economy. When Grace Philips moved...