Carrie Turcotte opened Northshore Financial Strategies in 2010 knowing very well that some people wouldn't be comfortable with her style.

About four of every 10 people who move to the Chattanooga area come from outside of Tennessee, and the phase-out of the state's Hall income tax will make the city even more attractive to retirees and others, an expert says.

The sign painters for Chattanooga's banks should stay busy in 2020 as the local banking landscape continues to get new names and players, including the first new startup bank in Chattanooga in 13 years.

Most counties in Southeast Tennessee are projected to grow slower than the average for all of Tennessee from 2018 to 2040

The biggest companies headquartered in the Chattanooga area with annual revenues last year near or more than $1 billion included:

Based on student enrollment in the current 2020 school year, less than half of the biggest 4-year colleges in the Chattanooga region grew student enrollment this year compared with last year.

Ask any couple running a business together the secret to their success, and they might tell you they create time and space for themselves apart from the job. Ask Brian and Jamey Elrod, though, and you'll get this answer:

His career in logistics and transport set up George Abernathy to know Chattanooga well. His first trip to the city was in 1997, and he returned many times over the years to work with US Xpress, Covenant Transport and Kenco, among others.

Dylan Pollack and Rebecca Brooks wanted to play outside and launch a business. For them, that added up to living in Chattanooga.

When Fischer Evans Jewelers opened at the corner of Market and Eighth streets in downtown Chattanooga, Ulysses S. Grant was president, Jesse James was robbing banks and the transcontinental railroad had been spiked into service just six months earlier.

Jim Houghton spent almost four decades as an engineer at Combustion Engineering and Alstom Power. Now, the 76-year-old Chattanooga-area resident is doing his best to help folks navigate tax season.

The technologies that track and secure online financial transactions can be applied to prescription drugs, making those processes safer and faster for physicians and patients, says Tyler Seaberg, co-founder and CEO of EirSystems.

Everyone loves a good startup story, but Ace Chapman would rather go shopping where businesses already exist.

It's perhaps no accident that 26-year-old Marvin Campos has found his calling as an advocate for one of Chattanooga's most vulnerable immigrant communities.

Starting a business takes more than just a cool idea and some fundraising. Behind the scenes, the details run the gamut from establishing company structure to protecting intellectual property. Attorney Willa Kalaidjian, the chair of the Chambliss Startup Group, shares her insights on what it really takes to stand up a startup.

Hailing from Jerusalem, Bassam Issa came to Chattanooga in 1973 for college. He stayed in the Scenic City and today is a well-known office and shopping center developer who lauds Chattanooga for its size and flavor.

Local designers Gil Cartwright and Curt Hodge have worked in the flower industry for decades, lending their talents to a local florist before launching a business of their own in 1990.

Robert Dooley, the dean of the Gary W. Rollins College of Business at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga since 2011, heads a program of approximately 2,400 students.

The Tennessee Valley Authority has been making a difference since the 1930s when the agency began its work to tame a river and spread prosperity to one of the poorest regions in the nation.

Hosted by the Chattanooga Chamber, EXPO Chattanooga is the largest showcase of local products and services and draws hundreds of key business decision-makers and more than 2,000 attendees each year.

Passion for better, more sustainable or more transparent products and processes inspire hard-working Chattanoogans to embrace entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurs are scrappy, using every resource and spare minute to propel their business forward.