Helping Businesses Grow & Succeed
Want to connect with the government’s largest source of grant funding for innovative early-stage small businesses in technology or the sciences? Here’s your chance. The Small Business Administration’s National SBIR Road Tour is coming to Miami, and you’re invited to attend. Representatives of 12 federal agencies that award SBIR/STTR grants […]
For National Women’s Small Business Month, we look at a trio of new studies with some enlightening findings about U.S. female entrepreneurs – their outlook, their impact and their challenges. First up is the 2019 Bank of America Women Business Owner Spotlight, which sheds light on the experiences of female […]
Florida International University’s College of Business (FIU Business) will launch a first-of-its kind program, Developing High-Potential Ventures with Skills – Not Venture Capital. Designed for South Florida entrepreneurs, technologists and students, the program will benefit those in the region who want to create and control wealth by starting and scaling […]
The “R word” is back. A growing number of economists and business forecasters are raising the likelihood of a recession. I know, I know, here in Florida we just escaped a hurricane and now we are talking about recessions? But recessions hit smaller companies much harder than larger ones, so […]
Before he opened his retail store, Eric Wooden designed his own line of urban graphic t-shirts on nights and weekends and sold them from the trunk of his car. On weekends, Wooden attended trade shows and knocked on a lot of doors of Miami retailers, finally winning his first wholesaling […]
When Corina Jimenez’s doctor in Venezuela urged her to cut dairy from her diet, she explored options for satisfying her sweet tooth. She didn’t like what she found out there – eating healthy shouldn’t mean sacrificing taste, she believed. So Jimenez did what others in her entrepreneurial family would do: […]
An interesting young company offering franchises for the first time might sound like a sexy opportunity, but buyer beware. With franchising, you are buying into a proven business model – it’s one of the key benefits of franchising. Because 70% of startup companies fail, your risk rises fast with younger […]
It’s a growing problem: Small businesses are getting in over their heads with debt, often brought on by the use of online lenders that typically charge higher rates and can require shorter payback periods than banks and other alternatives. Because traditional bank loans are difficult for many small businesses to […]
Small business owners, what keeps you up at night? If it is finding workers or managing your debt, you’re not alone. Finding qualified workers to fill open positions continues to be the top worry of Florida’s small business, according to a Florida Chamber of Commerce’s Third Quarter Small Business Index […]
This just in: The U.S. Small Business Administration announced that the federal government exceeded its small business federal contracting goal for the sixth consecutive year in 2018, awarding 25.05% in federal contract dollars to small businesses. That totaled $120.8 billion, an increase from the previous fiscal year of nearly $15 […]