Brex drops small business customers as Silicon Valley adjusts to new reality

Brex Co-Founder & CEO Henrique Dubugras speaks onstage during TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2019 at Moscone Convention Center on October 02, 2019 in San Francisco, California. Steve Jennings | ...

IRS boosts mileage rate deductions as gas prices soar to $5 a gallon

Guy Benhamou sends a picture of gas prices to friends while pumping gas at an Exxon Mobil gas station on June 9, 2022 in Houston. Brandon Bell | Getty Images If you’re self-employed or own a sma...

Behind on retirement saving? A bad market can be a good time to invest

Small business owners are among the Americans most likely to fall behind on saving for retirement. Investing back into a business is more often a priority for entrepreneurs with any excess cash than i...

Meet The 29-Year-Old Woman Who Turned Baking Banana Bread Into A Full-Time Business

Allie’s Banana Bread founder Allie Chernick. Credit: Allie’s Banana Bread Allie Chernick has been making banana bread since before it was a popular pandemic activity. She and her team of bakers make h...

Walgreens, Amazon, Wawa find success with most-often unemployed worker

Walgreens has been training and employing neurodiverse workers since 2007. “What we do know, from data and research, is that this is the highest unemployed demographic in the country,” Car...

The benefits of major cities amid remote work and rent inflation

Many renters believe that a cost-of-living crisis is brewing in America’s major cities. New York City is showing up as a hotspot of rent inflation. The average rent for 1-bedroom apartments in M...

How Do You Create A Resilient Small Business Sales Strategy?

How do small product businesses create a robust sales strategy? getty If ever there was an industry that needs to be resilient, it’s retail. And more than ever, after two years that have been full of ...

America’s small businesses aren’t ready for a cyberattack

Some of the highest profile cyberattacks on the U.S. in recent years are alleged to have originated in Russia, including the 2021 attack on the Colonial Pipeline — the largest fuel pipeline in the U.S...

Seaweed could be a vital ingredient in the fight against climate change

Like many coastal communities around the world, people living by the sea in the United Kingdom have harvested and consumed seaweed for centuries. In Wales, Welsh laverbread — made from cooking a type ...

How Netflix high-school grad built up a $100,000 business

Justin Ellen found himself at a difficult crossroad when he was 17 — should he pursue his passion for baking full-time, or go to college to further his education? At that time, the youngest contestant...

For Biden’s ratings to go up, it’s obvious what needs to go down

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on economic growth, jobs, and deficit reduction in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., May 4, 2022.  Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters Fewer s...

Airlines Relying On New Passenger Types To Replace Business Travelers

As airlines struggle with a slow return of the corporate business traveler, they are looking to new … [+] kinds of travelers. Is this the new business trip? getty The world of airline business t...

Stacey Abrams on why companies shouldn’t always speak out on politics

Companies are under intense pressure to speak out on a variety of political issues at local, state and national levels. Whether it is police action in a city, Disney in Florida, or the likely wave of ...

Why the market is taking Powell’s ‘soft-ish’ economic language so hard

Roger Ferguson Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Anyone who read a Fed chair coining the term “soft-ish” for an economic landing, as Jerome Powell did on Wednesday, as a bullish sig...

Main Street is convinced that a recession will hit economy this year

Main Street and Wall Street are often at a distance when it comes to the state of the economy. The likelihood of a recession hitting in 2022 is the latest example. Both camps are bearish, but small bu...

How to get free Nike sneakers, save money at Apple & other life hacks

Reading the fine print or understanding available offers means you could be saving money or taking advantage of refunds or freebies that you might not have otherwise known about, like a brand-new pair...

This 35-year-old turned her side hustle into a $141 million company—here’s the business plan she used

In 2014, I walked away from my $35,000-per-year job in insurance sales to grow my e-commerce side hustle with my husband Chris. We had been experimenting with selling clothes and accessories on online...

Quri Vodka Distills Incan ‘Gold’ In Peru

Jonathan and Shirley Tourgee use quinoa grown on a small family farm in Peru to distill their new … [+] spirit, Quri Vodka. Quri Vodka The story of Jonathan Tourgee’s path from chemical engineer...

Major retailers boost Black female entrepreneurship as employment gap lingers

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...

A 28-year-old who made $100,000 in passive income ‘in just one day’ shares 5 books that helped her get started

When people think of what it takes to start a business, words like “struggle” and “stressful” come to mind. But it was rewriting this narrative that allowed me to achieve succe...

Medical spas see a boost in beauty procedures after Covid pandemic

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 t...

Woman May Lose $8,000 To Police Even Though She Was Never Charged With A Crime

Cristal Starling at the door to her apartment building in Rochester, New York. Institute for Justice The case is called the United States of America v. $8,040 U.S. Currency, but it’s Cristal Starling’...

Top Tax Write-offs for the Self-Employed

With self-employment comes freedom, responsibility, and a lot of expense. While most self-employed people celebrate the first two, they cringe at the latter, especially at tax time. They might not be ...

As Energy Price Hikes Bite, Retailers Look To Sustainability To Cut Costs

As energy prices soar, retailers turn to sustainability to control costs and meet environmental … [+] goals getty With higher energy prices coming into effect in the UK today, many retailers are...

Why ‘free’ shipping isn’t free

The big carriers such as FedEx, UPS and Amazon make lots of deliveries, and none of those packages are being shipped for “free.” “People like free shipping because the word free is v...

With Russian sanctions, small companies may be in for a big surprise

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 |...

Worried About Getting Audited? Here Are Red Flags for the IRS.

Even though the Internal Revenue Service is auditing fewer taxpayers these days, you still don’t want to put a target on your back. Among those more likely to get audited: Small-business owners with l...

H. Moser & Cie And The Armoury Introduce The Ultimate Haute Horlogerie

THE ENDEAVOUR SMALL SECONDS TOTAL ECLIPSE – a collaboration between H. Moser & Cie. and The Armoury photo credit: Gigantem When two companies’ design and business philosophies align, i...

5 money-saving tips from a TikTok lawyer who reads the fine print

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 b...

Big food automation is making its way to Main Street’s menu

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. ...

EV mechanic Carl Medlock found a niche fixing Teslas

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 au...

This 26-year-old turned her side hustle into a $170,000-per-year business: ‘Here’s my best advice’

In 2020, at age 24, I quit my job as an engineer to focus on my travel blogging side hustle. That turned out to be the best career decision I’ve ever made. My blog, Packs Light, brought in over ...