Frank Susi
In 1999, immediately after graduating college, I worked part time at a picture framing and art supply store and started freelancing as a graphic designer and fine art painter. I named my freelance company Susi Art because my focus at the time was purely graphic art and fine art. After a couple years of freelancing, I had enough work to focus full time on Susi Art. Read More>>
Jackie and Matt Scanlon
Matt and I met working for the 2010 U.S. Census, Matt had been out of his normal strenuous line of work in the construction industry while he recovered from a broken neck and I had taken a semester off from college to work and the position was a temporary way to make money, we started dating within a few months of meeting and married in October 2011, Matt brought into our relationship a little boy, Joseph and a year after our marriage we welcomed our first daughter Faith. Somewhere around that time we started Faithful Flooring as Matt felt he could return to do what he always loved and knew how to do best and I started to tag along and be his helper. Read More>>
Joseph Balzano
Central Florist & Nursery has been an established business in Stoughton for the past 60 years. My grandparents bought the company 28 years ago and worked seven days a week, helping customers and building relationships throughout town. They decided to retire in 2015, allowing my wife and I to take over the business. Read More>>
Jimmy Liang
So back years ago when I was still working at a shop as a mechanic, one of the customer told me about Plasti dipping on vehicle, is a liquid type of wrap you spray on the vehicle and it can be peel off when don’t like it, then I did some research about it, and watch every YouTube videos how to do it. so after few weeks I finally decided to try it out on my own vehicle, I remember the car I did on it was neon green, the job came out ok…but the color is so bright and caught a lot of attention, so many people asked me about my car and they said they want to do it on their vehicle too. Read More>>
Paul Hart
Back in the 1950s my parents started a catering company called “Hart Brothers Caterers” out of their home in Roslindale. After many successful parties and perfected recipes, they quickly grew to be one of the biggest caterers in the Boston area. With the higher demand, they moved to Dorchester to what used to be the old Hood Milk plant. By 1968 they saw a golden opportunity when they realized they needed even more space and a larger facility.Read More>>
Kate Dias
Previously Celso owned C&C Landscape providing landscape services for many years, gathering a great network of customers along the way. We soon came to realize that designing and building outdoor living areas is what we wanted to do. We recognize the full potential of all properties whether it be residential or commercial. Read More>>
Daniel Quigley
I grew up in a family of mariners and have skippered and worked on boats of varying sizes all of my life. At a young age I joined a local Boston yacht club where I started maintaining boats for fellow members. My small youthful enterprise originally consisted of sanding and painting bottoms, and cleaning bilges, and later expanded to include washing and detailing larger boats during afternoons after school and on weekends. Read More>>
Jan Dziewit
Story of my business starts about 15 years ago in CT when I was working as a subcontractor, then I used advantage of great market and in 2005 I became General Contractor with my company Janek Construction LLC. When in 2007 economy dropped and I get across of some obstacles I had to down size to small finish Carpentry Company. After few years pass life pushed me to go to Europe for a while and when I came back I did continue my path with small projects as a Xena Builders Group LLC. Read More>>
Tim Lynch
I received my Ph.D. in Psychology of Computers and Intelligent Machines from Boston University. Shortly thereafter, Omni Magazine named me the first Robopsychologist or Computer Psychologist. I was then written up as a computer psychologist, or psychologist who studies how computer interaction effects personality and how to make computer interfaces more user friendly, in the Wall Street Journal, Psychology Today, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, the London Sunday Times, Computer World, and many other publications. Read More>>
Johnny Perette
My daughter want to open an ice cream stand , so we found one for sale on park Ave in Weymouth , I’ve owned and operated 9 restaurants & bars in my career , so I thought I would this ice cream stand would be a great seasonal business for her so we worked together for 3 years and. She is extremely successful! Next to the stand is a bar known as JP greers, and has been a local neighbor hood place for years , the owner decided to retire, and I thought it would be a great fit for me , I had one more bar in me ! Read More>>
Susan Peterson
I used to work for a wonderful gentleman Ed McGuire who owed Club Car Golf Cars in New England, they mainly sold carts to golf courses, and only rented to golf courses. There were quite a few of calls, that would come in people asking to rent Club Car golf carts for weddings, parties, vacations and other events and we would have to turn them away, because the company only dealt with large volume only and not 1-2 cart rentals for Individuals and their personal events. That’s when I decided there was a need for this service and started South shore golf carts to serve the public for their special life events. Read More>>
Shaun McCue
My business partner Kevin Bradford had approached me in 2007 and asked me to partner with him to start a moving company. We quickly started our company and began to plan how we wanted to follow a business plan. From 2008 to 2015 had partnered with various moving companies as contractors. Over those years we independently began to handle our own clients. In late 2015 we began to see a strong following and had built a strong reputation and by 2016 had relieved ourselves from any contractor work and went to 100% independent. Read More>>
Robert Swanbeck
Back in 1987 I started working at a company that removed silver from the x-ray and printing industry’s developing fluid. I worked my way up from a fork lift driver to the plant manager over 15 years. The company was eventually bought out by a larger environmental company that wanted to get into our line of work, after a few years all the x-ray and photography/printing industry started going digital, meaning no developing fluid to remove the silver from and they started to laid off some of the people from those companies that they bought. Read More>>
Charlie Godlewski
I have emigrated from Poland in 1999. Since than I have worked for painting company in Winchester, MA ( near Boston). I had to learn every aspect of painting and as beginner my job was fairly simple – sanding. I was sending all kind of surfaces and in near future it was my first master skill. Read More>>
Roy Abiyounes
I was born in Lebanon, my family has a business there that does very well. It was always assumed that I would one day take over that business, but I had always wanted something of my own. I wanted to build something from nothing, so I came here. Read More>>
Amy McAndrew
It took me quite a while to get to the place I’m in today. With that said, it has been an exciting journey none the less. I graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Art History. From there, I moved abroad to Rome, Italy to give personal tours and historical lectures of the Vatican and the city of Rome. Read More>>
Mark Walter
We started a dog-walking/pet-care business 10 years ago this month. After seeing how under-served the pet community was in Dorchester, we decided to open a pet-supply store in the Lower Mills neighborhood a little over 3 years ago. We also opened a daycare for small dogs (40-lbs and under) on Neponset Ave. Read More>>
