If you take a look at the most recent President’s Report from WBENC, you’ll get a look into some great examples of best practices followed by top corporations. Dell places importance on measuring diversity throughout the company, Alcatel-Lucent places its [...]
The MillerCoors Urban Entrepreneur Series (MUES) focuses on helping empower minority-owned businesses. Their 2012-2013 business plan competition is now open, and they plan to give a $50,000 business grant to a deserving small business. The MUES program provides business development [...]
“You Can’t Be All Things to All People.” Intuitively, we know that. When you start a company, you start it with a specific purpose. Perhaps it’s to help people organize their life or it’s to help companies reach local companies [...]
Laura Butler grew up in New York City in the NBC recording studio listening to her dad as the voice of NBC Nightly News. As a child she wanted to go out and play, but as an adult she realized [...]
Forgive me for sounding a bit trite, but there are so many similarities between owning your own business and winning big at the Olympics that I can’t help but compare the two. Owning your business can be an everyday battle [...]
As government agencies approach the end of their fiscal year, which concludes on September 30, they begin to wrap up their acquisition for the year, assess their remaining dollars, and potentially check off a few items not purchased on the [...]
Summer is here in the Northern Hemisphere, but it seems many of your potential clients are not. When you get the response “I’ll be on vacation until…” one too many times, it’s easy to become discouraged about summertime marketing. But [...]
Becoming an Olympic-level athlete is a lot like running your own successful business. Passion, dedication and the ability to succeed despite failures define both the successful athlete as well as the successful entrepreneur. It’s really no surprise that a large [...]
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“Small Business Facts” Debut on SBA Website Confused about terminology? Or the basic definitions used in small business statistics? The Office of Advocacy has launched a new series, “Small Business Facts,” to demystify key small business topics and explain terms [...]