Martha Donato Builds the Town, Then She Runs It

She has been mayor of something since she was sixteen years old. The office just kept getting bigger, and the title only recently caught up.

Every entrepreneur knows the first half of the story, even if no one warns them about it going in. You put your head down. You build the thing nobody asked you to build, alone, on your own money, with no org chart to confer a title and no communications department to announce that you exist. You get very good at something while almost no one is watching…