Startups Share Strategies for Success

Having worked in a corporate laboratory environment for six years, Clay Ponder felt underappreciated and also wanted to provide a higher level of patient care so, at the beginning of 2021, he opened SCP Dental Lab, a removable lab in Mobile, AL.

He started out with the bare minimum of supplies and equipment...

After 11 years of working in a variety of different laboratories and feeling like he wanted more control over his work environment, Taylor Stutz took the plunge in 2021, quitting his job at a local boutique lab and opening Digital Stitch Solutions LLC. He opted to focus on design services, largely for...

Adam and Adrielle Ahokas sold their first lab in 2017 and moved to Javea, Spain, to do missionary work on behalf of Jehovah’s Witnesses and expose their two teenage sons to a different culture. When the pandemic hit, they moved back to Cary, NC, and Adam taught himself how to scan and design, mainly...