After 30 years of running businesses, Gary Short shares what he’s learned from experience. Gary Short founded sys-tek in 1995. When he started the company, Short focused on delivering engineering design for mission critical, pharmaceutical, higher education and life sciences projects. But over the years, he saw opportunities to change direction in order to grow the company. Those markets continue to be a focus for sys-tek, but at the same…

Solving a dog’s halitosis was only the beginning of the journey….

And Marisa Wiruhayarn of Tasty Thai has learned to tell it well. Marisa Wiruhayarn’s story is one of perseverance, of learning how to believe in herself, of realizing just how capable she is. Her entrepreneurial journey began in the early 1980s when she left Thailand full of excitement for a fresh start in the United States. Then her husband died unexpectedly, leaving her to raise two children, with a limited…