Partners Cate McLaughlin and Kyle Falk started the website askcateandkyle.com last July to help recent graduates deal with
the trials and tribulations of life
after college. Their potential audience is huge.
Business partners Dan Adams and Bob Harton left a real estate franchise to start an agency of their own.
Cristi Melson started Purrs & Gurrs 2-1/2 years ago with an idea and some fliers she distributed door to door. She
didn’t have a formal business plan then and still doesn’t.
For four decades, Jim Ashby worked as a manufacturing floor manager, first for General Motors Corp., then, after a buyout,
for an Ingersoll Rand subsidiary. He likes to relax and fish, but Ashby considers himself too energetic for retirement. He’s
now 67 years old. And a first-time entrepreneur.
