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Fashion Project is an online clothing donation service that takes gently used items to be resold on the site, with proceeds from each sale benefiting charities.

JOYN employs marginalized artisans in developing areas and connects them with the global online fashion marketplace.

Brigham Young University graduate Jenna Miller founded Puppies For Rent in August 2012, the summer before her senior year at BYU.

Cookie Cutters Haircuts for Kids features neon lights, playgrounds and motorcycle, airplane and race car-style “fantasy chairs” in its salons.

Menlo Park-based startup QBotix produces a robotic system which CEO Wasiq Bokhari says makes solar panels up to 40% more efficient.

Yeah, yeah. You've heard why VCs are awful, greedy people. But, really, when you think about it, they aren't that bad.

Keeping your money for working capital rather than paying it out in taxes to Uncle Sam will give you an edge in the current economic climate.

Day-to-day inertia is the enemy of business. If you want anything good to happen, you have to make it happen, starting here.

It has been a half-century since President John F. Kennedy issued a proclamation announcing National Small Business Week, to recognize the critical contributions of America’s small business owners.

The three friends behind Brooklyn design firm The Principals first collaborated on a side project—and then decided to turn it into a full-time gig.

The reality is that risk avoidance is the greatest impediment to progress, personally and professionally.

If you truly want to achieve the business goals you’re setting for 2015, the best way to do so is update your business plan.

If we admit to ourselves that the last week is going to be low key, we can find projects and activities that fit well into that environment.

Arguably the hardest decision any small business owner faces is when to end a business pursuit, whether a product, an acquisition, or the mother of all anguishing decisions – to close the business. Here is what you can learn from Target.

Entrepreneurs are often eternal optimists, which is good, but it can mean not seeing the blaring red flags. An advisory board is a cost-effective solution. 

Taking the time to attract great board members can extend the reach of any privately-held business in a low-cost way.  Here’s what makes a profit-driving board, and tips for running the meeting.

Businesses that survive long-term have gauges on their dashboard, not warning lights.

Here are tips for Mompreneurs who are busy caregiving and raising children, as well as managing a business.

After declaring Chapter 7 bankruptcy in 2008, Bennigan’s and its beloved Monte Crisco are back, growing once again under new leadership. Here are turnaround tips from the making-a-comeback brand’s CEO.

When it comes to the entrepreneurial world, women don’t lean on their broader networks the way men do.