Updated: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 at 3:34pm
At the CitySeed farmers’ market in Wooster Square on Sunday, a table labeled with the “Yale Sustainable Food Project” logo was out of produce shortly after the market opened. “The spinach was gone in, what, two minutes?” said Nat Wilson ’09, who helps manage the Yale Farm’s stand. But although demand is high for organic produce from the Yale Farm, the...
Though their ideas are still in their beginning stages, participants in this year’s Yale Entrepreneurial Society Y50K Business Plan Competition may be on their way to becoming promising leaders in the business and nonprofit sectors. Teams proposing business models for engine-sensor technology and software applications for rural health workers walked away with the first...
Chris Howe, a co-owner of Trailblazer, along with business partners David Venables and Todd Raskin, founded the New Haven-based outdoor specialty retailer in 1994. Since then, Howe and his partners have opened locations in Branford and the Mohegan Sun Casino. The News spoke with Howe about Denali, the first of three proposed new storefronts — Denali, Trailblazer and...
Business owners in the Broadway District are hoping their collective discounts during Thursday’s College Night will bring the same crowd of students to the strip that it has in the past — even if most Yale students interviewed said they do not plan to attend. Tonight’s event — during which most businesses will offer a 10- to 20-percent discount between 6 and 9...
The New York Stock Exchange announced Friday that it will suspend trading of the Journal Register Company, parent corporation of the New Haven Register, on Wednesday because of its “abnormally low” stock price. The decision, which comes during continued speculation about impending bankruptcy for the Journal Register, followed the Thursday’s news that Moody’s...
Touradj Barman SOM ’07 plans to kill the instant messenger. Or replace it, at least. With these hopes, Barman is releasing GoGroups, a downloadable program that allows users to join, chat and share in public and private online groups. His program, which he began developing while a student at the School of Management, does all this with the help of his patented “live...
Tony Koutroumanis opened Yorkside Pizza & Restaurant in 1970 and has run the popular establishment ever since. The News spoke with Koutroumanis about how the weakening economy has affected his and other New Haven businesses. Q: The economy hasn’t been doing very well. Has it affected business? A: Definitely. A lot of my family is in the restaurant business. They...
Brian Graham, owner of Sushi on Chapel, has a simple business philosophy: “Have fun, make money and eat great sushi.” Surrounded by dark brown walls and square wooden tables at his Chapel Street location, Graham — who plans to open the doors to his new Japanese restaurant in the next day or so — said he is not worried about drawing a crowd, despite his lack of...
At $0.75, a copy of The New Haven Register now costs more than the common share price of its parent corporation, the Journal Register Company, which dropped to $0.22 on Monday. The Journal Register is in trouble because of a number of factors, including in part a flagging economy and a newspaper industry become increasingly centered in the Internet, that are adversely...
The Journal Register Company, the parent corporation that owns The New Haven Register, has retained investment bank Lazard to assist in a possible restructuring of the company, The New York Times reported Saturday. Financial difficulties at the Journal Register may soon force the company to be delisted from the New York Stock Exchange if its share price does not rebound...
Running past a store window in December 2003, Nicole DeBoom ’94 experienced a life-changing epiphany: She looked like a boy. The realization more than shocked her — it led her to found SkirtSports Inc., a company dedicated to providing women with sexier clothing options for their workout routines. “The whole reason the company came about,” DeBoom said, “was...
A successful entrepreneur never takes no for an answer. After losing a competition for funding from the Yale Entrepreneurial Society in January, Robert Henehan ’10 and Vincent McPhillip ’10 did not give up on their dream of building a T-shirt design company. Instead, they took their business proposal to another group — the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute — an...
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