March 19, 2010
(Due to a reporting error, an earlier version of this story incorrectly identified David Old as a Marine veteran. He was in the Marine Corps Platoon Leader Class, a ...
March 9, 2010
With the unemployment rate steady at 9.7%, not many Americans turn down job offers these days—especially those who have been laid off. Art Wells is an exception....
February 26, 2010
Antonia Musto's health insurance is running out. After she was laid off from a media company in 2008, the former staff accountant continued her prior health coverage ...
October 30, 2009
The statistics surrounding the survival rate for small businesses have long been subject to fervid debate. Depending on who you're talking to, the predicted life span ...
October 23, 2009
More than half of all U.S. businesses are based at home. These companies often are dismissed as quaint hobbyist ventures, but new research suggests that's a mistake. ...
September 18, 2009
Aspiring entrepreneurs must constantly navigate the tension between doing what they love and the realities of the market. Sometimes those interests align: Bill Gates ...
July 14, 2009
When Taunya Painter worked as a senior corporate counsel for Wal-Mart (WMT), she noticed that many of the small suppliers that wanted contracts with the world's ...
May 19, 2009
In 2004, David Cohen had an idea for a social network for mobile phones that would connect users in the real world. His Boulder (Colo.)-based company, called iContact,...
May 15, 2009
On sunny afternoons, Lucy Whittle can be found tending the lawn at the First Baptist Church in Los Banos, a small town of 35,000 on the western edge of Merced County, ...
March 27, 2009
Philip Eggers has started six medical device companies in his Dublin, Ohio, hometown. His last five followed a pattern: Eggers would develop the product in his Ohio ...
March 13, 2009
They're casualties of the recession: the millions of workers laid off as employers slash payrolls. With few companies hiring, a number—no data exists on what ...
November 21, 2008
A business partnership (BusinessWeek SmallBiz, June/July, 2007) is usually hatched in a state of inspired optimism when two or more seemingly like-minded individuals ...
September 5, 2008
Several summer camps encourage teenagers to try out entrepreneurship—teaching them marketing, finance, and how to make a business plan.
June 30, 2008
Welcome to America's Most Promising Startups, a new ongoing series profiling startups from across the country. Our first batch typifies the imagination and drive that ...
April 2, 2008
Culling from their own experience launching new companies and interviews with 55 entrepreneurs around the world, Christopher Gergen and Gregg Vanourek, co-founders of ...
March 24, 2008
Over the past 30 years, Michael Gerber, author of best-sellers The E-Myth Revisited and E-Myth Mastery, has coached and trained thousands of small business owners, ...
March 17, 2008
Editor's note: This column is adapted from Wright's recent post on his blog on running a sustainable Web business. In the beginning, it's not always practical to dive ...
March 12, 2008
When David Hernandez got laid off from Enron (BusinessWeek.com, 12/17/01) in late 2001, he decided to start his own company to sell retail electricity in deregulated ...
January 23, 2008
Entrepreneurship creates jobs and drives the U.S. economy, making smart founders and savvy investors rich in the process, right? Not so, says Scott Shane, professor of...
January 11, 2008
Ric Cox retired at 55, but he didn't stop working. Instead, he launched ChicagoCondosOnline.com, a database that sells condo information to realtors and listings ...
December 17, 2007
Many aspiring entrepreneurs dream of turning their grandmother's cookie recipe into the next Mrs. Fields. Yet because stringent food-safety regulations make it illegal...
December 10, 2007
Michael Stajer bet big on his idea to start an eBay-style (EBAY)Web site for buying and selling wines in 1999. The Bay Area attorney sold his personal wine collection ...
December 3, 2007
Venture capitalist Josh Kopelman of First Round Capital (BusinessWeek, 10/17/07) prefaces his comments about what he looks for in business plans with a caveat: ...
November 30, 2007
Barry Thomsen began his entrepreneurial career as a 10-year-old running a paper route and selling lemonade to workers at construction sites. From there, he sold Amway ...
November 21, 2007
Sara Blakely had been selling fax machines and office copiers door-to-door for seven years when she had an idea for a clothing line that would transform her from an ...
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