Browsing: Small Business
With vacations ‘crazy expensive,’ small businesses say Americans are staying closer to home
Small business owners in U.S. tourist destinations say they’re seeing more Americans sticking closer to home this summer, trading overseas travel for road…
Three dads started selling hats from a garage with $750—now they’ve sold $35 million worth
Back in 2022, Bart Szaniewski, Grant Eastey, and Ejay O’Donnell were reluctant to admit it, but fatherhood had hit them…
Exclusive: This founder went from pressure washing to Wharton—and just raised $40 million for AI
The 24 year-old spent six summers pressure washing houses in upstate New York with his dad. Now he has a…
McKinsey studied 200 family business successions. The biggest problem wasn’t the heir — it was the outgoing CEO
Acha Leke is a senior partner in McKinsey’s Johannesburg office, Chairman of McKinsey’s Africa region, and a member of McKinsey’s…
AI agents are saving California’s favorite cheese. Here’s how Salesforce revived Petaluma Creamery
Larry Peter has as much personality as the cheeses that once made Julia Child melt. He once sold cheese out…
Joubin Mirzadegan will straight-up tell you: it’s boring—and that’s the point. Mirzadegan’s startup Roadrunner builds AI-native, natural-language “configure, price, quote”…
A Mark Cuban-backed vegan cheese firm trained AI to scrutinize cardboard boxes. It’s saved $400,000
A Mark Cuban–backed cheese company found an unlikely place to cut costs using AI: the cardboard boxes carrying its vegan…
While fresh-faced grads are throwing their hats in the ring for a job at the world’s biggest companies, they could…
As a small business owner, I never expected to pay $100,000 protecting my business from ransomware
As a small business owner in Columbia, Pa., I have always paid my taxes on time each and every year.…
Trump’s cuts to National Parks is a bad sign for the outdoor economy and rural economies
Americans are all in on spending time outdoors, and the economy, at least until recently, loves it. The business of…












