Rosita Young woke up in the early morning hours of Nov. 16 to police officers at her door. Someone had broken into her Chinatown jewelry store on Grant Avenue around 4:20 a.m., and within three minutes, stolen $250,000 worth of goods. Thieves damaged the store’s front gate, door and showcases, […]
Small Business
Before grabbing your phone and loading up your online shopping cart or heading for the big-box retailer, D.C.-area small businesses hope you give a thought to shopping local. The turkey and pumpkin pie have been gobbled up, and your focus has shifted to that holiday shopping list. Before grabbing your […]
There is plenty of space for small businesses to win. Supporting other small businesses is important for success for small business owners. That support between entrepreneurs can come in different forms. When you think of businesses in the same space, you think competition, right? Business, no matter what kind, is […]
Time is running out for businesses to get COVID funding from the Small Business Administration. Are you leaving money on the table? Unfortunately, many are. The Economic Injury Disaster Loan program, or EIDL, was created as an offshoot of the agency’s existing disaster loan programs. It is specifically targeted at […]
Check out what’s clicking on FoxBusiness.com. Small companies today face a problem almost as unknown as some of the firms themselves—the exchanges designed to take them public often keep them in the shadows. Currently, these more modest firms—known as small-caps—have to list on the same stock exchanges as the Fortune […]
Colleen O’Connor was surrounded by a mess of her own making, just the way she liked it. Across the tables of her St. Paul art studio were small frames, cups of paintbrushes and mini plastic pots filled with acrylic paint she mixed herself. She moved into the space in October […]