Entrepreneurship : Featured Stories

Consumers’ demand for artisanal, local products has led many beer lovers to turn their hobbies into new ventures. Several new breweries and beer-themed restaurants are in the works for Greater Baltimore as craft brew makers savor an uptick in sales. 

It's been nearly seven years since Susan G. Dunn launched local shopping magazine Paper Doll. Now, she has started a new magazine -- this time online -- called Baltimore Fishbowl. We sat down with the editor to learn more about her plans for the publication.

Can free tickets and the use of social media draw younger audiences to the stage? Philip Arnoult, founder of the Theatre Project, and Buck Jabaily, co-founder of Single Carrot Theatre, are about to find out. The pair have launched Baltimore Open Theatre with seed money from the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation. Performances will begin this fall in either the west side or Station North.

After a dearth of new restaurant openings during the last two years, Baltimore witnessed a restaurant revival in 2011 as investors were once again hungry for new ventures. The owners of several new contemporary bistros, a Hollywood actor and a celebrity chef bet big on Charm City just in the last six months. 

It’s one of the most irritating, maddening and persistent problems of city living – finding the ever-elusive “good parking spot.”  Startup Parking Panda found success at Startup Weekend Baltimore in the spring and money in New York over the summer. Now, its founders are back home.

Mixed media artist Jane Wynn is waiting to be discovered. While she waits, she also works really hard, dedicating hours of studio time every day to her art on top of a teaching schedule. Whether she’s doing a whimsical twist on a classic painting or teaching a mixed media workshop in the Midwest, Wynn manages to keep herself pretty busy. Despite the dark humor some of her artwork features, Wynn is one of the most optimistic and enthusiastic up-and-coming artists in Baltimore you’ll meet.

Not all tales of entrepreneurship involve hot, fresh startups. In fact, sometimes it's the quieter stories -- the long-term successes -- that can inspire us the most. Meet Mark Supik, who's been running a woodworking business on his own terms since 1981.