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Law will cut insurance costs Companies with government contracts recently filed their annual contribution disclosure forms with the Election Law Enforcement Commission. The data showed that the Citizens Campaign’s state and local pay-to-play reform laws are working, effectively cutting the flow of contributions by 38 percent since the law went into effect. Now, the Citizens […]
Our Point of View
Well, when we’re wrong, we’re wrong. In this space last week, we said politicians, overanxious at the sound of a $500 million income tax windfall landing in their trough, would do some foolish thing — like hand out property tax rebates — with the money before they had to think of the consequences of, say, […]
Reaping rewards of her business acumen
Kaitlynn ZolnayThe College of New Jersey Kaitlynn Zolnay, 20, was a third-grader when she started baking dog biscuits and selling them to local pet stores. Unlike most third-graders’ startups, Bandit’s Biscuits is still in business, and Zolnay also runs Orchidaceous, a decorative art business she launched in high school. The sophomore at TCNJ was only […]
Betting her customers will welcome low-stakes cards
Kellie De CelisRichard Stockton College of New Jersey During her decade-long career in Atlantic City, Kellie De Celis, 33, rose from blackjack dealer to pit manager, training and supervising workers on the casino floor. When she graduates from Stockton next year, she plans to launch The Lucky Ladies, a business that will run gambling entertainment […]
Balancing their books, customers
Tomorrow’s executives demonstrate how they fuel entrepreneurial drive while in school Andrew WestfallRider University Andrew Westfall and Ben Chiappetta, both 23, were juniors in high school when they launched their Internet hosting business Plutomic Hosting. Westfall will graduate in December with a double major in computer information systems and entrepreneurship, as “I knew I wanted[...]
He’s keeping the home fires burning
Vladimir De DelvaRowan University When Vladimir De Delva proposed his plan for Haiti Biofuels — a venture to make fuel from the oil of a tree that thrives on the island — at a business plan competition at Rowan’s Rohrer College of Business, it won first place. But the Haitian chemical engineering major, who graduated […]
SPOTLIGHT Future Entrepreneurs
Tomorrow’s executives demonstrate how they fuel entrepreneurial drive while in school Smartphones power early success Matt Bischoff New Jersey Institute of Technology When Apple Inc. approved Quotebook, a smartphone application for finding, saving, sharing and organizing quotations, it was a big hit for Lickability.net. Since March, thousands of iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad owners have [&hell[...]
Grapevine Anchors away, RU leaving?, Trump card
Anchors away, now returningCanadian conglomerate Triple Five appears to be making progress in lining up retailers for American Dream, the massive entertainment and retail complex formerly known as Xanadu in the Meadowlands. Bloomingdale’s has already made a commitment to be an anchor tenant at the project, according to a source that spoke with the Mall […]
Liberty lifts lamp to N.J. fans, executives
What was built as a home for a professional ice hockey team has rapidly become a basketball empire. It started with the New Jersey Nets, which shared the Prudential Center’s floor with the Seton Hall Pirates while the NBA franchise’s new home in Brooklyn, N.Y., awaits completion. Then it was the NCAA Tournament, which hosted […]
Scion of the gridiron
While Woody Johnson hails from one of New Jersey’s most legendary business families, his approach to both the New York Jets and the state he has made their full-time home more closely reflects the all-out approach of an entrepreneur cultivating his first startup. Since he bought the Jets for $635 million in 2000, the organization […]
Taking a scalpel to high health care costs
George Malik has spent 30 years cutting costs in the health care industry, but even he gets caught by surprise sometimes — like when he discovered an application he had downloaded for his mobile device came with a monthly fee. “To be honest with you, at a previous job I had an app that I […]
