Jason Konturas learned as a young man what it was like to run a small business, and he knew one day he’d have one of his own.

Konturas, who owns Extreme Tan, a six-bed salon in Westerly, R.I., spent his high school years managing a small service station. There he learned the ins and outs of running a small business: “Opening and closing, keeping books and paying bills, ordering products, dealing with big companies and contracts, payroll, helping customers and so on…,” he says………READ MORE