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Three Easton business owners will discuss their experiences 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in Kirby Hall of Civil Rights room 104 as part of the CIRCLE Entrepreneurship series organized by Lafayette students.
The speakers are Phil Lipkin of Lipkins Furniture, 320 S. Third St.; Tomias Hinchcliff of Genesis Bicycles, 126 Bushkill St.; and Troy Reynard of Cosmic Cup, 434 Cattell Street.
Founded nearly 30 years ago, Genesis Bicycles was named one of the nation’s Top 100 Bicycle Retailers by Bicycle Retailer & Industry News this year. Genesis is the only bike shop in Pennsylvania to receive this award.
Lipkins Furniture has been in business for 107 years. Phil Lipkin has worked there most of his life, taking off two years after college to work as a teacher.
Established last year, the Cosmic Cup coffee shop features a series of live jazz performances organized by saxophonist Jack Furlong ’05. Lafayette’s student Jazz Combo gave a recent concert there.
CIRCLE organizers are economics and business majors Stephen Caruso ’06 (Middletown, N.J.) and Nkrumah Pierre ’06 (Glen Head, N.Y.), mathematics-economics major Clint Losch ’06 (Drexel Hill, Pa.), and physics major Jonathan Farrar ’07 (Alexandria, Va.). The group is advised by Sheila Handy, assistant professor of economics and business.
Also scheduled in the series is a talk by Ray Foley, publisher of Bartender magazine, about his involvement in the start-up of the magazine as well as his consulting business 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 18.
Free and open to the public, CIRCLE events are supported by the Hunsicker Fund, which promotes the study of entrepreneurship at Lafayette.