Dog-lover Katie Konner turns her love of painting and pets into a business growing by leaps and bounds By Ellen Linnemann Katie Konner has been a dog lover all of her life, so much so that when it came time to choose a new last name after her divorce, she chose a name that would…
Sisters, Co-owners Adjust to Challenging Times By Ellen Linnemann  Family-owned for more than 25 years, designers and sisters Sarah and Lauren (who took over the business started by their mother) knew that although they were faced with a number of challenges and changes to how they typically did business, that this unanticipated change also…
By Sarah Clemmons It all began in a garage. It’s an origin story setting you’ve heard from Jobs, Wozniak, and Bezos. But this piece isn’t about bits and bytes but beads and bracelets, and the b-word that brings it all full circle: business. Lissy Rawl, creative powerhouse behind Hilton Head Island’s own Little Fish Boateak,…
How making a better shower pan lead to overflowing growth. By Ellen Linnemann 2020 was an unpredictable year with truly unprecedented challenges for all businesses – and KBRS was no exception. The Hardeeville-based company was founded in 2005 to provide customers with a better, leak-free, shower base. Company founder Tommy Davis was unhappy with the…
Confianza’s confidence in their business model stems from a management team with deep roots in the insurance industry. By Ellen Linnemann Although many startups are launched by people just starting out in business, there’s a unique advantage to starting a company with a team of established experts with decades of industry-specific experience. So when four…
He’s flown jets at 43,000 feet as a pilot for Delta Air Elite, been a keyboard player in a touring rock band and, in 1999, founded the first company to use video streaming over the Internet for marketing research – achieving a level of success he could never have imagined and growing his company into…