Metro Weekly

Business

  • Symbiotic Space

    By on May 18, 2011

    Chamber Connections The best usually comes around with the worst. In business, when these opposites combine, prospects for good business deals arise. Such is the...

  • Artist as Entrepreneur

    By on May 5, 2011

    CAGLCC Connections Painters, sculptors, actors, musicians: For them the term ''starving artist'' was coined. But not so Peter Fox, an artist who also runs a...

  • Saying 'I Do!'

    By on April 20, 2011

    When Tammy Freeman, a member of the Capital Area Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (CAGLCC), and her partner started planning their wedding, she quickly...

  • Celebrating Business

    By on April 6, 2011

    Every year, the Capital Area Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (CAGLCC) celebrates by recognizing LGBT individuals who have made a difference, directly or indirectly,...

  • Getting With The Future

    By on March 23, 2011

    CAGLCC Connections What's in a name? For a new business, quite a bit. In 2009, Thomas Sanchez founded Wamwaw LLC, a D.C.-based firm focused on...

  • The Accidental Entrepreneur

    By on March 9, 2011

    In keeping with the nature of his business, Gus Elfving calls himself the ''Principal and Pack Leader'' of Pet Peeps, a company he founded in...

  • Banking on It

    By on February 23, 2011

    You may think of bankers as very traditional people, but that's not how Ken White thinks of himself. ''I like to think outside of the...