Small Business

Ulta Beauty has doubled the number of Black-owned brands that it carries. Ulta Beauty Major beauty retailers are boosting small, minority-owned businesses as Black female entrepreneurship helps bridge an employment gap. As of last year, 17% of Black women in the U.S. were in the process of starting or running new businesses, according to the

Goddess Brouette, 22, decided to receive lip treatment at Upkeep Medical Spa in Manhattan during the pandemic. Source: Goddess Brouette Goddess Brouette didn’t want to wait much longer. It was time to get her lips filled. After months of research, she decided last year to get a treatment at Upkeep on the Upper East Side

A lot of college students have thought about launching a start-up, but many get stuck on the best way to do it — or what risks they’ll encounter. Starting your own business is always going to be a gamble. But if you can identify a need for a product or service, know your customer, have

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks on developments in Ukraine and Russia, and announces sanctions against Russia, from the East Room of the White House February 22, 2022 in Washington, DC. Drew Angerer | Getty Images Over 400 multinational corporations have pulled out of Russia as a result of its invasion of Ukraine. It’s not only

Reading the fine print means you could be saving money that you might not have otherwise known about, according to Erika Kullberg, lawyer and founder of Plug and Law, a legal tech start-up for small businesses and entrepreneurs. Kullberg found that you could be eligible for compensation for everything from getting bumped from your flight

The Tally 3.0 autonomous mobile robot scans inventory in a grocery store. Simbe Robotics Automation and robotics are typically associated with multi-million budgets at multi-billion dollar companies. But as the cost of technology has come down, it’s become more affordable to smaller companies — even small businesses.    Outside of Atlanta in Jonesboro, Georgia, THAT

As main street businesses are continuing to make a comeback post-pandemic, they’re facing down the triple threat of supply chain headwinds, labor constraints and historic inflation. For some, borrowing to invest, grow, or simply stay afloat, is top of mind. Data from Goldman Sachs’ 10,000 Small Business Voices “Small Businesses on the Brink” survey finds

In this article TSLA There’s an opportunity for entrepreneurs in the electric vehicle market. Electric vehicles are sweeping the auto industry, and while all the attention is directed at flashy car unveilings and automakers’ strategic plans to compete in an electric future, one crucial piece has largely been left out of the limelight  — service.

Elizabeth Frantz | Reuters A majority of small business owners on Main Street say they support more financial relief from the federal government, but the resolution of the battle in Congress last week over the spending bill for the federal government shows that it may not be coming. This shouldn’t be a surprise. With fiscal

Janice Chen (C) and her Mammoth Biosciences co-founders Trevor Martin (L) and Lucas Harrington (R). CRISPR gene editing pioneer and Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna is also a co-founder. Along Highway 101 north of the San Francisco Airport, a break-out biotech start-up named Mammoth Biosciences co-founded by Nathan Chen’s sister Janice in 2018 is fast

Doug Langley clears the combine harvester’s head from weed before he starts harvesting, during the wheat harvest in Shelbyville, Kentucky, June 29, 2021. Amira Karaoud | Reuters Many rural Americans may have stronger finances than urban dwellers, but their wealth may lack diversification, jeopardizing a more secure retirement.   That’s according to a report from the

To succeed as an entrepreneur, having a playbook for how to scale your business and process feedback is key, according to Zuleyka Strasner, founder and CEO of Zero Grocery, a plastic-free online grocery store that operates in San Francisco and Los Angeles. “Starting a company, scaling a company is exceptionally hard,” Strasner said. “I was

A “now hiring” sign is posted in the window of a restaurant in Los Angeles, California on January 28, 2022. Frederic J. Brown | AFP | Getty Images The latest nonfarm payroll report shows a labor market nearing a recovery to pre-pandemic levels, but small business owners across the U.S. say that finding and keeping

Small businesses will be facing growing challenges from inflation and higher wages, Chicago Federal Reserve President Charles Evans said Friday. Even with average earnings flattening out in February, Evans told CNBC that he hears from smaller companies in his district about the challenges from cost increases. “I think there are a lot of business models,

In this article INTC U.S. first lady Jill Biden and others applaud her guest Intel CEO Patrick “Pat” Gelsinger in the first lady’s box as President Joe Biden mentions Gelsinger during his State of the Union address to a joint session of the U.S. Congress in the House of Representatives Chamber at the Capitol in

Four-time NBA champion Shaquille O’Neal issued a stark warning to the Los Angeles Lakers Monday, saying despite an abysmal season, it would be a huge mistake to trade the team’s biggest superstar, Lebron James. “If you trade LeBron, you’ll never win again,” O’Neal said of the Lakers in an interview with CNBC. While the NBA

Dan Lauer, founding executive director of UMSL Accelerate Dan Lauer By all measures, Dan Lauer had a successful career. The banker turned entrepreneur created the best-selling children’s toy Waterbabies, and after selling 25 million of the realistic dolls, he wanted to give back to his alma mater, the University of Missouri-St. Louis Business School, and empower

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – APRIL 28: Deanna Sison takes a break from preparing preordered lunches to check the status of her federal small business loan application at Little Skillet restaurant in San Francisco, Calif. on Tuesday, April 28, 2020. Most Covid financial relief to small business has now ended, but the need for more funding

Nearly 5.4 million new business applications were filed in 2021, up from 4.3 million the previous year, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. But to succeed as an entrepreneur, you need dedication and should be “armed with information,” according to Zuleyka Strasner, founder and CEO of Zero Grocery, a plastic-free online delivery service that operates

Samuel Corum/Bloomberg via Getty Images Rules around small business taxes have changed significantly in the last two years. This year is no exception as many of the various pandemic-era deductions and deferrals come to an end.  The good news is that even though these benefits are ending, the impact on the overall tax rate for