LeadAmrita Khalid How This Entrepreneur Built Two Fast-Growing Businesses by Going SlowAjeet Singh, co-founder of billion-dollar companies Nutanix and ThoughtSpot, stresses the importance of doing your research first.
Food and BeverageGabrielle Bienasz Struggling Restaurants Could Soon Be Getting $60 Billion in Relief FundsThe Restaurant Revitalization Fund Replenishment Act, proposed with bipartisan support in Congress, would provide a boost for thousands of food-service businesses.
GrowAnna Meyer 3 Last-Minute Ways to Prepare for Amazon Prime Day 2021How to make this year's e-commerce holiday your best sales day yet.
MoneyDiana Ransom Biden's Small Business Administration: More Lenders, Easier Terms, Fewer HurdlesThe pandemic presented fissures in the small business resources and financing continuum. SBA Administrator Isabel Guzman shares her plans to fix it.
LeadAnna Meyer 'Shark Tank' Investor Daymond John's Newest Venture Is Also His Passion: Teaching Young EntrepreneursThe serial entrepreneur and 'Shark Tank' investor is teaching teen entrepreneurs how to build a successful business.
Economic OutlookBill Briggs How Can Lawmakers Really Help Small Businesses? Get Out of the WayNo amount of government stimulus can compete with open economies.
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LeadMary Yang He Sold His Third Company for $1.4 Billion. And Put Off Retirement to Start His FourthSerial entrepreneur Don Brown launched his software business LifeOmic when he was 60, and has no plans to slow down. He's finally having fun.
LeadMary Yang How Chicago's Proudest Neighborhood Pulled Through the PandemicGhost kitchens, pop-up shops, crowdfunding, and plenty of customer TLC: How businesses in a storied Chicago neighborhood survived the Covid-19 slowdown.
GrowGabrielle Bienasz Online Sales Exploded in 2020--but Mostly for Retail GiantsWell-known brands like Amazon and Walmart won big last year. Here's how your small business can catch up.
LeadAlicia Doniger Companies Are Offering Incentives to Vaccinated Consumers, but More Important: Why?The business case for offering free doughnuts, beer, and burgers to Americans who are vaccinated.
GrowSophie Downes Forget Brand Loyalty. Here's Why You Should Strive for 'Brand Intimacy' InsteadNew research from branding agency MBLM shows that people will pay more for brands they feel emotionally close to--especially during a pandemic. Here's how to build that connection with your customers.
LeadAnna Meyer 7 Great Graduation Gift Ideas for Aspiring Business OwnersYoung CEOs will appreciate the utility of these gifts--and will be inspired by their fascinating business backstories.
LeadSophie Downes 'If We Stay in Silence, We Stay in Our Silos': Why This Asian American Founder Is Speaking Out About BiasSteph Speirs, co-founder and CEO of solar energy startup Solstice, on why she used to ignore racist and sexist comments--and what changed.
LeadAlicia Doniger 3 Ways to Get Minority-Led Small Companies Back to BusinessThe initiatives minority business leaders say every small business should practice to reach a full economic recovery.
LeadChristine Lagorio-Chafkin Jim Collins Didn't Think Leadership Was Important to a Company's Success. Here's Why He Changed His MindHow the 'Good to Great' author realized that leaders do matter.
InnovateKevin J. Ryan How This Startup's Tiny Pouch Is Saving Farmers Hundreds of Millions of DollarsHazel Technologies' solution for reducing food waste is gaining traction with both farmers and investors.
LeadChristine Lagorio-Chafkin 'They Would Call Me Dragon Lady': The Complexity of Speaking Up as an Asian American WomanThe co-founder of Omni Bev and Luxie Beauty has faced racism and a spectrum of stereotypes. Now she's opening up about her fear--and her optimism for the future.
LeadGabrielle Bienasz The Wacky Meditation Tool That Serial Entrepreneur Rob Dyrdek Swears ByThe host of MTV's 'Ridiculousness' spends (nearly) every morning knee-deep in a Somadome, a mediation pod that that uses colors and binaural beats to conjure a meditative state and improve focus.
LeadChristine Lagorio-Chafkin At Zola, an Unconventional, Informal, and Highly Inclusive Executive Decision-Making MethodThere's no majority rule, and it's not democratic, but there are multiple rounds of voting among the majority-women executive team.
Cash FlowDiana Ransom PPP's Crazy Final DaysHere's what happened at Lendistry when the biggest small-business aid program in history was foisted on a handful of overworked lenders.
LeadLindsay Blakely The 2 Words the World's Best Bosses Don't Want to HearTwo-time founder and CEO Nicole Bernard Dawes knows how to make best-selling products. It starts with teaching your employees to develop opinions--and stand by them.
LeadSophie Downes How to Know When It's Time to Sell? This Serial Entrepreneur Says It Comes Down to 2 ThingsShelly Bell decided not to sell Black Girl Ventures, the organization she founded to help Black and Brown women entrepreneurs get funding. Here's why.
InnovateMary Yang This Co-Founder Hates Wasting Time. Here Are His 3 Pandemic Productivity Hacks to Beat BurnoutMinistry of Supply co-founder Gihan Amarasiriwardena had to come up with new ways to make sure he and his team didn't run out of steam. They've been so effective, the company plans to keep them.
InnovateTim Crino Away CEO Jen Rubio on How Travel Will Change Over the Next DecadeThe co-founder and CEO of the luggage and lifestyle company plans to take advantage of pent-up demand.
LeadAnna Meyer How Brad Pitt and a Filipina Grandma Helped This Hollywood Exec Bottle HappinessBefore working with some of the biggest names in Hollywood, Cristina Patwa learned the fundamentals of business--and tea--from her Filipina grandma.
