Small Business

Entrepreneurs

Should area developers remove small business from its pedestal? Small businesses are mainly local and do better when exporters import wealth. Exporting businesses need sophisticated leaders. Areas should prioritize unicorn entrepreneurs who import wealth and enable small businesses to create jobs.

Tope Awotona built the scheduling business Calendly out of frustration. Now it's worth $3 billion.

Calendly was built out of frustration. Now the scheduling app is worth $3 billion—and the subject of a heated Twitter spat among Silicon Valley elite.

Qureos has raised $3 million of pre-seed funding for its edtech platform

Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship recently formed Miller Center Invest with a goal of catalyzing $500 million in capital for alumni of its programs over five years.

With this year’s Forbes Next Billion-Dollar Startups list, we’re looking for companies like alumni DoorDash, Benchling and Alchemy in their nascent days.

Rattle's platform integrates clunky enterprise software applications with modern communication tools

New research shows that viewing customer service as a value center and investing in it has a positive impact on revenue growth. Progressive CMOs are capitalizing on this opportunity.

The global philanthropic market is worth about $1.5 trillion. In the US, there are 1.7 million nonprofits getting about $471 billion, which means Americans are giving over $1 billion a day. The question is why then do most nonprofits still struggle raising money?

It’s springtime and that means a flood of college graduates will fill the labor market. How can businesses figure out which candidates are most likely to thrive? One university president believes the secret is in finding applicants with strong life skills.