Small Business

A veteran computer scientist hates sitting in his car at stop lights, so he creates software that makes the experience less annoying.

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

Practice Fusion CEO Ryan Howard, whose company just raised an $85 million Series D round of funding, says the Affordable Care Act is shaking up the health-care industry in a positive way for innovators.

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

Some entrepreneurs make great CEOs. But getting a company off the ground and successfully running it over the long haul are completely different jobs.

Inc.com has tips on how to work while getting away from the office.

Small business owners and entrepreneurs have good reason for many of the sleepless nights they experience. New research has found that small business owners admit a number of things keep them up at night.

Garden State businesses made famous by ‘The Sopranos’ mourn the loss of actor James Gandolfini.

If you want to be a successful entrepreneur, you've got to have a laser-like focus, something that's harder to do now than ever before. Here are 10 ways to cut out the background noise.

A local builder saves the day to keep NJ beach town's beloved nearly 50-year-old family-run restaurant and soda fountain shop from shutting down post-Sandy.

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

A new and innovative technology company and the mom-and-pop store around the corner both might be considered startups, but the two kinds of companies face very different challenges, new research has found.

Just in time for Free Shipping Day and the end of holiday-shopping madness, mobile-shopping tracker Slice launched on iPad this week.

Despite the gains that have been made in workplace equality, women still face many more hurdles than men, new research finds.

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 first of Amtrak’s 70 high-tech new trains rolls off the assembly line – thanks in part to small businesses around the country.  

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