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Chop Dawg Studios owner Joshua Davidson, left, talks with creative director, Thomas Barr, 18 of the Bargaintown section of Egg Harbor Township, and executive creative director, Rauf Tur, 28, of Galloway Township, during a work session on June 26. Joshua Davidson, a 19-year-old Egg Harbor Township man, started a website design company out of his parents' home. He recently opened a brick-and-mortar office called Chop Dawg Studios, in Mays Landing.

One of the few business success stories in recent years is unfolding in the loft of a nondescript garage along a dead-end street in the McKee City section of Hamilton Township.

At first glance, it would appear to be the domain of college undergrads. The main room is crowded with dorm-room furnishings: pinball machines, a Foosball table, a pingpong table and a futon for midday naps. In the back room, a tennis match blares — thwack, thud, thwack — from a flatscreen TV.

“I try to have a work ethic other people can look up to, so most of the time I’m working,” says Joshua Davidson, a 19-year-old with a knowing smile and a nervous laugh. “Don’t get me wrong — we have some epic pingpong tournaments.”

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