Seithia Martin traded a career in property management for a more personal form of management — event planning. This September she opened Event Décor Galore in Petersburg.
“I’m a people person,” Martin says. “I love to decorate and design with colors and flowers.”…
The Lizzy Lou Boutique in Danville’s River District started with a plan Sarah Rodden made while she was a student at Virginia Tech.
“I was taking a small business class my last semester, and we had to write a business plan for opening a small store front,” Rodden says.…
As a gymnast Natalie Kimmel likes to keep moving. When Kimmel had an idea for a gym and tumbling center, she took it to Longwood Small Business Development Center (SBDC). Motion Gymnastics, now in its second year, is on solid ground and growing.…