As a hardworking 18-year-old entrepreneur, Joe Procopio proved success is built not so much on the equipment you have on hand, but on how you use it. In 2003, he opened J. Procopio Landscaping with a pickup truck and a lawn mower. While he grew the one-man operation, he also worked nights driving an ambulance and earning his emergency medical technician certificate.
By 2011, the demand for backhoe service and light excavation was sufficient enough for Procopio to leave the medical field and open Land Works in Scituate, Rhode Island. “I’ve never looked back,” he says. “We recently subdivided the company
