Episode 15
Original Cablecast: March 11, 2008

• In the Noodle Factory: It’s big, it’s new, it’s in Bushwick, and it makes dumplings – lots and lots of dumplings. A behind-the-scenes look at a state-of-the-art example of how Brooklyn is still in the manufacturing game.
• Help at Home: Good with kids? Eager to start a business? The Business Outreach Center Network helps people who want to establish home-based child care programs. You’ll meet one entrepreneur who’s doing just that…
• A Blast at the Theater: In Gowanus, a group of pyrotechnicians are busy making things that can explode and burn and do all sorts of cool stuff on Broadway stages. Behind the scenes at J&M Special Effects.

Episode 14
Original Cablecast: February 12, 2008

• Brooklyn Pizza Tour: Board the bus as a Brooklyn-born entrepreneur introduces tourists to the wonders of the borough, not least of which is its pizza.
• Small Businesses & NYC: Host Michael Burke talks to Rob Walsh, Commissioner of the NYC Dep’t. of Small Business Services, about what the city can do to help small business owners.
• So You Wanna Build Green?: In Williamsburg, a supply company caters to developers and contractors who want their buildings as green as possible.
• May the Faucet Be With You: How are kitchen and bath fixtures actually designed and manufactured? Find out in this profile of a Brooklyn company that caters to the custom trade.