Foursquare, a location-based social network, is rolling out new tools that will give businesses more information about their customers and allow them to target special offers.
Can Thinking Caps Tutoring of Manhattan, which employs 30 tutors and serves 300 students annually, expand while maintaining the quality of its services?
Barbara Wright’s experience with a Small Business Administration loan shows that federal help in the current financial climate does not always do what a small-business owner expects.
Preparing a business for sale has a lot in common with starting it in the first place: The more you prepare, the more successful the outcome is likely to be.
Dianne Fuller Doherty, who advises entrepreneurs and works to create jobs, says that “as long as I am doing something of value, why not continue doing it?”
For businesses and residents, the lack of a bank is an inconvenience, but it is also a problem that officials say has stunted the business community there.
A small town in Pennsylvania Dutch country is home to small businesses that support musicians’ tours, as well as makers of mousetraps, candy and pretzels.
As traditional banks have spurned small businesses, many have turned to firms that provide a relatively expensive alternative: purchase-order financing.
The plan would give companies a tax credit of up to $5,000 for each new hire and reimburse them for Social Security taxes if they expand their payrolls.