If you had told Jacques Hopkins five years ago that his online piano course business would allow him to leave his full-time job, he never would have believed you. But after eight years of being an engineer, he quit on New Year’s Eve, 2015. …

Starting a blog wasn’t something 19-year-old Morgan Timm had planned on doing when she went away to college last year to study speech pathology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. But one night as she was reading some of her favorite …