Helping Businesses Grow & Succeed
Last year, Florida SBDC at FIU, the small business development center within the university’s College of Businesses, helped close to 1,400 small businesses with business planning, growth strategy, marketing and communications, access to capital, government contracting, and much more. The center’s business consultants provided over 13,000 hours of no-cost consulting […]
When Danielle Wuensche walks into Zahntechnique’s Miami Lakes office each morning, sunlight streams in from the surrounding glass windows, filling the boutique dental lab with natural light. For this small business owner, her space represents more than just a modern workplace: It’s a symbol of resilience, vision, and a decade-long […]
This Saturday, November 25, marks Small Business Saturday, a day that encourages shoppers to patronize small businesses and invest in their local communities, and serves as the ceremonial kickoff to the holiday season. American Express launched this shopping holiday in 2010, at the height of the Great Recession, as a way of redirecting […]
Business & Entrepreneurship By Cynthia Corzo / FIU NEWS The Miami-Dade Small Business Resource Navigator project, headed up by the Florida SBDC at FIU Business (FSBDC), rounded out 2022 with strong results for local start-ups and growing small businesses – helping to launch five new ventures and assisting 700 already established […]
This week, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava announced the launch of Strive305, a free virtual small business incubator that is a collaboration between the county and area partners Florida International University’s StartUP FIU, Micro Business Catalyst, BizHack and Femcity. Strive305 will help some 70,000 small and micro businesses with […]
By Gerri Detweiler – Guest Contributor If you have an ecommerce business or a bricks and mortar business that also sells items online, you know that one of the biggest challenges (after making the sale) is getting the item your customer purchased delivered to them quickly and smoothly. You may […]
Did you know that in 2021, Canada accounted for 17.5% of the USA’s total export sales, while countries in Europe comprised another 21.2%? These markets come with clear opportunities but also unique challenges for exporters, including legal differences, languages, units of measurement, and currencies. When it comes to sales in […]
Nearly six months ago, I interviewed Pilar Guzman Zavala, owner of Half Moon Empanadas, after she had to shut all but one of her company’s 13 locations for Argentinian style-empanadas, including the lucrative Miami International Airport sites. She and her husband and co-founder, Juan Zavala, were looking at zero sales […]
“This is the worst small-business crisis of my lifetime, and I’ve seen a number of tough moments,” said Karen G. Mills, who led the U.S. Small Business Administration from 2009 to 2013. “I’m quite concerned that we haven’t even seen the tip of the iceberg of business closures.” In the […]
Timing is everything at Fish Level Corp. Samy Fischer’s small business is a 24- hour operation, with his processing team starting work at 1 am to ensure morning deliveries of more than 1,000 pounds of 16 varieties of fish, always fresh, to his clients at restaurants, supermarkets and homes. Then […]