There is no Cupcake Manufacturers Association keeping count, but anecdotal evidence indicates that stand-alone cupcake shops have been spreading not j...
Krisztina Holly | Posted 11.20.2009 | Business
There is a common image of entrepreneurs being young renegades that aren't polluted by old ways of thinking. They come into a new industry, with no former biases, and turn it upside down.
Don McNay | Posted 11.17.2009 | Business
I have not seen much evidence of Obama being in touch with small-town Kentucky, but after reading David Plouffe's new book, The Audacity to Win, I have become convinced that he knows what it takes to run a business.
Chauncey Zalkin | Posted 11.20.2009 | Books
Here are outtakes from my conversation with the smart and funny-as-hell woman who started and runs Persephone Books. Without her, Miss Pettigrew would literally not have lived to see another day.
Patricia Handschiegel | Posted 11.10.2009 | Business
Power Girls are women in a man -- and women's -- world. Gender does not define who we are, what we need to do, and most of all, what we want to accomplish. It never has.
Brett Greene | Posted 11.06.2009 | Impact
The 2010 Lilith Tour's partnership with TouchPoint Trust Group is an opportunity for fans to participate in the movement to take control in driving social change.
Brett Greene | Posted 11.04.2009 | Denver
I was expecting an adult version of the school science fair at the Colorado Inventors Showcase, but was greeted with a much bigger spectacle.
nytimes.com | ROBB MANDELBAUM | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business
After enduring months of criticism that his administration had done too little to help small businesses weather the recession, President Obama said We...
Rebecca Fannin | Posted 10.20.2009 | Technology
It's no wonder that China venture is picking up again. Studies show that money spent in Chinese startups produce 12 times more than those in the US. But the window of opportunity is narrowing.
Reuters | nick carey | Posted 10.12.2009 | Business
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - Small companies create more than half of America's jobs, but the entrepreneurs who drive this part of the economy continue to co...
Simon Sinek | Posted 10.07.2009 | Business
Entrepreneurs see the thing they want or need, and then try to figure out a process for how to get it. People who shouldn't be entrepreneurs see only the standard process.
wsj.com | MEREDITH WHITNEY | Posted 10.02.2009 | Business
Since the onset of the credit crisis over two years ago, available credit to small businesses and consumers has contracted by trillions of dollars, an...
Posted 09.28.2009 | Technology
Last week's tech news was filled with the salacious and the silly, the functional and the frivolous, the anticipated and the nearly-overlooked. We've...
Jeff Bocan | Posted 11.23.2009 | Business
This summer, I decided to move my wife and three little kids away from the sunny beaches and new media millionaires of Southern California to -- you guessed it -- Michigan.
Zondra Hughes | Posted 11.16.2009 | Chicago
Last week, African-American entrepreneur Johnny Brown succumbed to cancer after an 11-year battle with the disease. These are Mr. Brown's words of wisdom in his last phone interview.
Patricia Handschiegel | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business
The New Power Girls, like the Old Boys Club, work together, play together and have an alliance in our work that crisscrosses the country through dozens of cities.
Patricia Handschiegel | Posted 10.18.2009 | Business
Today, as platforms to deliver your company's message expand, it's even more important to have a tight focus on what you want to say, to who and where.
Alicia Whitaker | Posted 10.16.2009 | New York
Mayor Michael Bloomberg welcomed the first tenants of the city's business incubator at 160 Varick Street at a press conference this morning.
Don McNay | Posted 09.13.2009 | Business
As we look at life after the financial crisis, we need to turn traditional thinking on its head. Picking up a copy of Chris Anderson's Free is a good place to start.
Sharon Glassman | Posted 09.10.2009 | New York
Here are some tips from New York City voice-actor Jeremy Redleaf on transitioning from a full-time job to freelancing/odd-jobbing, or from one freelance gig to another.
Jen Groover | Posted 08.09.2009 | Living
Too many have been programmed to immediately identify why we shouldn't follow our passions instead of first considering all the happiness and vitality that doing so would bring.
Patricia Handschiegel | Posted 08.02.2009 | Entertainment
This week, fellow entrepreneur and New Power Girls co-creator, Meghan Cleary and I sat down with this transmedia talent to get her three top tips for moving and expanding to different platforms.
Teresa Rodriguez Williamson | Posted 07.31.2009 | Living
It sucks. I am bummed that I have to get back in line with the screaming kids, bitching seniors, and rowdy teenagers. But then again, I could always just stay at home.
Felicia C. Sullivan | Posted 07.26.2009 | Style
Alayna Kassan and Cynthia Dressel met in 1999. Each had successfully fought Hodgkins Disease. In 2002, they donated $20,000 to the Lymphoma Research Foundation -- Presents For Purpose was born.
Lynda Resnick's Blog | Lynda Resnick | Posted 07.03.2009 | Business
One of the great things about technology is that it creates a level playing field. Just as Get Satisfaction helps small businesses get a handle on cus...
nytimes.com | ELIZABETH OLSON | Posted 11.25.2009 | Business