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Local Businesses Growing With Gen D (Generation Delivery)

Jed Kleckner | Posted 05.20.2013 | Small Business
Jed Kleckner

Today, on-demand delivery is common for busy professionals and urbanites with a couple of clicks on a web site or through the tap of an app. Delivery helps drive revenue for local businesses, such as restaurants, across the U.S. by reaching more customers in the neighborhood. This new delivery focused mindset makes up Gen D -- the delivery generation.

5 Steps to Moving Your Store

Patricia G. Greene | Posted 04.17.2013 | Impact
Patricia G. Greene

Location, location, location has been a mainstay of retail logic for eons. While the definition of location has grown from a mere physical presence, it still means a lot.

In Business and in Health: Running a Business With Your Spouse

Nusha Balyan | Posted 04.05.2013 | Small Business
Nusha Balyan

Going into business with the person that you married may seem like a great idea but it doesn't always end up in happily ever after. Some recent high profile divorces and business splits may make you think twice before you tie the co-working knot.

New Research Reveals Crucial Advantage Of Family Businesses

AP | LISA RATHKE | Posted 04.03.2013 | Small Business

MIDDLEBURY, Vt. -- If you want to go into business during tough economic times, you might want to do it with family. At Sokol Blosser winery in Dayto...

How I Became A Meatball-Obsessed Entrepreneur At 51

The Huffington Post | Shelley Emling | Posted 02.12.2013 | Fifty

If you have something you are passionate about, don't let anyone tell you it's not possible.

Mom Invents A Million-Dollar Idea To Take The Sting Out Of Shots

Posted 12.13.2012 | MarloThomas

One of the reasons I started my website is that I wanted a place for women to come together and dream. We women need to know that we don't have to ha...

Teen Saves Family's Christmas Tree Business (VIDEO)

Posted 11.30.2012 | Teen

A Christmas miracle came early this year for 16-year-old Kaitlyn Metscher. The Washington teen, who took over her family's Christmas tree business thi...

Picking Apples for 100 Years!

HooplaHa | Posted 12.16.2012 | Good News
HooplaHa

Apple-picking is a fall tradition that holds years of memories for friends and families -- especially for the Leidel family! Leidel's Apples is a family run apple stand that been operating for more than 100 years in La Crescent, the apple capital of Minnesota.

Money Can't Buy Success

David Geller | Posted 12.05.2012 | Small Business
David Geller

Success for a private business should be based on building the kind of life you desire. Once you are able to support your family, a private company serves only one purpose -- to enhance your happiness.

General Store That Opened In 1788 Will Close Its Doors Today

AP | Posted 09.27.2012 | Business

LITTLE COMPTON, R.I. (AP) — Gray's Store in Adamsville village brought in customers for years with its old-fashioned marble soda fountain, cigar and...

Black Voices Atlanta Spotlight: Greg Baranco Jr. Puts A Spin On Family's Car Business

The Huffington Post | Gil Robertson | Posted 07.22.2012 | Black Voices

As we conclude the Atlanta’s New Leaders series, Black Voices has introduced you to a new generation of people who have not only maintained their fa...

Five Generations Of Innkeepers In Switzerland

Frank A. Weil | Posted 09.16.2012 | Travel
Frank A. Weil

In today's world of homogenization, TV, clash of civilizations, instant need for gratification and signs of danger all around, this five-generation family inn is an example for hope.

Janean Chun

Running a Fifth Generation Steak Business

HuffingtonPost.com | Janean Chun | Posted 06.21.2012 | Small Business

Todd Simon started humbly at Omaha Steaks, folding boxes for 2 cents each. He was 10, and although this was his first job at the business his great-gr...

Family Business

Ruth Neubauer | Posted 08.16.2012 | Parents
Ruth Neubauer

I don't know what happened to the briefcase, quite ragged by the time he died, that my father carried home each night by its leather handles. It was a...

A Graceful Exit: How to Retire Happily

David Geller | Posted 06.24.2012 | Fifty
David Geller

There are three keys to happiness for everyone -- regardless of wealth or social standing

Janean Chun

I Fired My Father

HuffingtonPost.com | Janean Chun | Posted 03.23.2012 | Small Business

Mitchell Kaneff remembers the first time he sat at his father's desk. He was 5. "I loved spending time with him but he worked six or seven days a week...

How An Amish Business Competes In The 21st Century

The Huffington Post | Geoff Williams | Posted 03.02.2012 | Small Business

It's easy to romanticize Amish entrepreneurs, imagining them running a business by candlelight. Actually, many Amish businesses do have power -- they ...

An Interview With The Palm Steak Man

Jordana Zizmor | Posted 10.24.2011 | Home
Jordana Zizmor

With The Palm rolling out a brand refresh and celebrating its 85th anniversary this year I thought it would be relevant and meaningful to interview Bruce Bozzi Jr. His great grandfather founded The Palm and Bruce runs it today.

Starting A Business With Your Spouse: 5 Things You Need To Know

The Huffington Post/AOL Small Business | Geoff Williams | Posted 08.06.2011 | Small Business

Successful marriages can often lead to successful business ventures. Take Gary Erickson and Kit Crawford, who turned Clif Bar & Company into a $235 mi...

On Family Business

Marian Salzman | Posted 09.26.2011 | Business
Marian Salzman

Much ado has been made over the general drama associated with big business -- but what happens when the business is all in the family and corruption seeps through and threatens the very fiber of its ancestral heritage?

Balancing Passion With A Passion For Business

The Huffington Post/AOL Small Business | Geoff Williams | Posted 07.28.2011 | Small Business

Like many entrepreneurs, Alicia and John Vargo practice what they preach. Pampered Passions Fine Lingerie, the Englewood, Colo.-based company they fou...

Meet The World's Oldest Entrepreneur!

The Huffington Post/AOL Small Business | Geoff Williams | Posted 08.23.2011 | Small Business

Is Jerome Oxman the world's oldest living entrepreneur? Considering he just turned 96, it's a pretty safe assumption. Oxman started Oxman's Surplus...

Rod Kurtz

Scott Spector, Spector Group: 27 Million and Counting

HuffingtonPost.com | Rod Kurtz | Posted 07.27.2011 | Small Business

Starting your own business is a noble -- not to mention exciting, rewarding and often crazy -- undertaking. The experience is an adventure, to say the...

Maker Of The Steelers' Terrible Towel Is A Packers Fan!

The Huffington Post/AOL Small Business | Patrick Sauer | Posted 07.27.2011 | Small Business

Come Super Bowl Sunday, Pittsburgh fans everywhere will be waving their Terrible Towels, hoping their beloved Steelers will bring home a record sevent...

Rod Kurtz

Finding A Better Way To Drink

HuffingtonPost.com | Rod Kurtz | Posted 08.10.2011 | Small Business

It's no secret that investment bankers like to unwind with a drink or two after a long day of work. But for brothers Courtney and Carter Reum, the art...