Serial entrepreneur Bernie Noble says the worst business decision he ever made was leaving Allen Drain Service to start an excavation business in 1985. “I did excavation work for 23 years,” says Noble. “I’m a slow learner.”But the businessman got a shot at redemption in 2001, when Allen Drain — based in Kent, located just outside of Akron in northeastern Ohio — was put up for sale. Noble bought the business, which pumps out septic tanks and grease traps and cleans drainlines.Since then, Noble and his daughter, Sara Gless, the company’s vice president, have focused on taking a solid family-owned
