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Eight years ago, Ally and Scott Svenson started hiring felons to staff MOD Pizza. That turned out to be one of the best business decisions they ever made.
This story appears in the September 2018 issue of Entrepreneur.
There was a moment in 2011 when Tony D’Aloia considered his freedom to be a curse. In prison, where he’d just spent the better part of a decade, he could survive a full year on the $100 his mom sent him twice a year, on his birthday and on Christmas. But now that he was outside and back home in Washington state, he needed money to survive -- lots of it. He’d heard of job openings with warehouses and construction companies, but nobody seemed eager to bring on a convicted felon.
Then he finally found someone willing to interview him. A young Bellevue pizza joint called MOD was hiring a dishwasher. D’Aloia knew zilch about MOD and wasn’t excited about the work. But it...
“Manufacturing is critical for the nation,” says Dave Petratis, chief executive of security products maker Allegion PLC, which employs 2,500 at production and assembly facilities across...
New York Teaches Public Housing Residents How To Start A Business....
The Wall Street Journal - July 21, 2018
PHOTO: Sandra Mathis prepares cupcakes at Hot Bread Kitchen's "kitchen incubator" in East Harlem, N.Y.
In a lower Manhattan classroom on a summer weeknight, John Childress, a veteran culinary and business professional, challenged a group of about 30 budding food entrepreneurs seeking his advice.
He pushed them to bring in extra help to avoid suffering from burnout. He told them to consider creative pricing strategies to boost revenue. And he encouraged them to explore new markets. “You can’t be afraid to go outside your neighborhood if that’s your best customer,” he said.
The entrepreneurs weren’t well-funded individuals starting up trendy restaurants or craft breweries in fashionable locales. Rather, they were people living in public housing hoping to better their situation through the business of food.
The class was part of the...
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