1 cover photo: “Is the skateboard coming to represent high energy innovation and entrepreneurship? This is good!”ĭanza, former president of ABF Skate Shop, is now a structural engineer at John Maltese Iron Works Inc., a structural steel fabricator and erector based on Jersey Avenue in North Brunswick. The ABF Skate Shop Facebook page recently when I shared the U.S. I realize Navarrete’s Tigerlabs has little to do with skateboarding, but nevertheless the image is meaningful and powerful. And I thank you and he both for providing a positive, uplifting image of skateboarding that, I feel, is

I wish Navarrete and his entrepreneurship center success. I dont think I-pod cares that its one of the. Or Bernie Cuddy, a North Brunswick native who is busy growing his Dato Skateboards and Clothing into an international brand. Contest contender Iouri I-POD Podladtchikov rides the Allstar. Himself, he was shooting his skateboarding friends and their death defying moves. Or Califon’s Todd Laffler, whose Laffler Photography is oneof the premier wedding photographers in the Tri-State area. Like, for example, New Brunswick skater Ian Haliday, who now runs the nationally renowned Coffee Slingers Roasters in Oklahoma City with his girlfriend. Magazine article when he said “ is about getting on the board and feeling that exhilaration, the speed and control business same.”Īnd Alva and I are not alone, as many of ABF’s old skateboarding customers now run successful, creative businesses of their own. Perhaps skateboarding legend Tony Alva put it best in a 2006 Entrepreneur Being able to overcome seemingly insurmountable odds when almost everyone is against you.

I have always felt that there is a strong relationship between the creative, solitary nature of skateboarding and the successful entrepreneur.

(I closed ABF in 1999 to pursue other interests.) I learned a great deal about small business, entrepreneurship, and most of all, PASSION, during that time - traits that serve me well today. Shop came to dominate the Central Jersey skateboarding scene. at the front of my mother’s florist in North Brunswick in 1988 when I was 13 years old. As someone who both skateboards and started a business as a teenager, this image - and the inclusion of words like “Innovation” and “High Energy” with it - were particularly appealing to me. 1 at his newly launched Tigerlabs entrepreneurship center. Hi everyone We have a new store highlight this week This weeks is Jackpot Skateshop Its located in Colorado Springs CO. I was delighted to see Burt Navarrete pictured on a skateboard on the cover of the March 6 edition of U.S.

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