startups

A proper addition to Church Hill

Proper Pie owners Neil Smith and Nikki Price

After rocking and rolling across the world in search of a good pie, Neil Smith and Nikki Price gave up. They’re going to make their own.

More fur, less financing

Valerie Paul

Valerie Paul, 26, is turning her lifelong love of dogs into a 3,600-square-foot brick-and-mortar business — without taking a penny from the banks.

An abundance of attention

hoardingburiedalive

Richmond now has two local companies soaking up the limelight on reality shows about hoarders.

Outside the box: Pandora founder speaks in Richmond

The founder of one of the coolest startups in the country, Tim Westergren, spoke in Richmond on Monday night. There is a great video up at ReadWriteWeb. Westergren gave some classic startup-esque answers about how the business model had to be flexible. The company almost went belly-up in 2007. Staff had to wait months to… Read more »