New York Times - Small Business

With secondary education and most jobs out of reach, thousands of Afghan women have turned to entrepreneurship as the only path to make money and maintain a social life.

The older brother of the music mogul Russell Simmons and the rapper Joseph Simmons, he made his own way as an artistic and entrepreneurial force in Brooklyn.Danny Simmons at his home in Brooklyn in 2004. “Danny’s the fine artist” in the family, his brother Russell Simmons told The New York Times in 2004. “The real thing, a cultural hero.”

In city parks, at Phish shows and outside Madison Square Garden, a nomadic salesman builds his brand, one pistachio-laden wedge at a time.