When Scranton native Tim O'Brien decided to go to work for himself in the real estate business, he did his homework. Four years and a national mortgage crisis later, the 25-year-old is still in the game, and gaining ground.
With credit markets frozen and the economy in recession, it might seem like the proposed 1,500-foot American Commerce Center in Philadelphia will need a series of miracles to survive.
Pennsylvania's $7 billion brewing industry abounds with successful craft brewers--entrepreneurs who have steadily grown their businesses in the face of huge challenges.
Scott Ungerer, founder of EnterTech Capital in 1996, has long known what the rest of us are just realizing: eventually we'll have to quit the hydrocarbon economy for something else.
How a small startup working out of a makeshift lab in North Philadelphia is aiming to transform the biodiesel industry--and the way we think about alternative fuels.
A growing class of workers is shrugging off allegiance to a single company and striking out on their own as freelancers. The result is a new way of working marked by an intensely creative entrepreneurial spirit.