Small Business

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Claudia L. Shivers, founder of Queen Coffee Bean.
Commentary

I couldn’t make a living wage when I was released from prison. Now I run a successful business

By
May 3, 2024
Owner of vaping supply business that exploded arrested while preparing to catch a one-way flight to Hong Kong
Success

Owner of vaping supply business that exploded arrested while preparing to catch a one-way flight to Hong Kong

By
April 26, 2024
Second Chance Month is a failed promise for former inmates. Here’s how we can fix that
Commentary

Second Chance Month is a failed promise for former inmates. Here’s how we can fix that

By
April 22, 2024
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy onstage at the 2021 GeekWire Summit
Tech

Andy Jassy says Amazon has a ‘great relationship’ with sellers. Longtime sellers say it’s ‘the worst it’s ever been’

By
April 11, 2024
Small-business optimism just hit an 11-year low. ‘Will depressed small business owners depress the economy?’
Finance

Small-business optimism just hit an 11-year low. ‘Will depressed small business owners depress the economy?’

By
April 10, 2024
Sean Young
Success

New Hampshire donut censorship and the ‘speech police’: Local bakery sues over ruling that student-painted mural was advertising, not art

By Kathy McCormack and The Associated Press
April 10, 2024
30-year-old banker quit $100,000 job to start a healthy fast food chain because he had no work-life balance—but being his own boss was more work and he even cut short his honeymoon
Success

30-year-old banker quit $100,000 job to start a healthy fast food chain because he had no work-life balance—but being his own boss was more work and he even cut short his honeymoon

By
April 6, 2024
Analysis: Amazon sellers say their businesses are facing an extinction event—they might not be wrong
Tech

Analysis: Amazon sellers say their businesses are facing an extinction event—they might not be wrong

By
March 16, 2024
Solar eclipse donut
Success

Total eclipse of the donut: Businesses gear up for astrological rarity with special edition snacks, beer, jewelry

By Wyatte Grantham-Philips and The Associated Press
March 15, 2024
A female Amazon worker sorts customer orders in boxes that are traveling along a conveyor belt.
Tech

Amazon will no longer underwrite loans for sellers in its $140 billion Marketplace business

By
March 7, 2024
Photo of Letitia James
Finance

New York sues loan shark group accused of charging Manhattan’s City Bakery and other small businesses ‘illegal’ rates of up to 820%

By
March 5, 2024
Bakery owner jilted by Tesla credits Elon Musk effect with surge in business: ‘You either love him or hate him’
Tech

Bakery owner jilted by Tesla credits Elon Musk effect with surge in business: ‘You either love him or hate him’

By
February 29, 2024
Elon Musk is looking to the right pensively with a microphone in his hand in front of a black background.
Retail

Tesla screwed a Black-owned bakery out of $16,000 during Black History Month: ‘It felt like we didn’t matter’

By
February 23, 2024
The home was rented by former funeral home owner Miles Harford
Finance

Financial hardship led ex-funeral home owner to stash cremated human remains in temporary urns and may have led to mixups of ashes, police say

By Amy Beth Hanson, Colleen Slevin and The Associated Press
February 17, 2024
Giorgio Rapicavoli
Success

A lot of Americans sitting around who never had cash before: New Yelp data reveals the small-business boom from the pandemic has real-world legs

By Irina Ivanova and Sunny Nagpaul
January 24, 2024

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