Small Business

Here are retention strategies for your small business employees.

Matthew Harrigan came up with the idea for BareBands after creating his own athletic watch in a pinch using rubber bands.

On New York’s Long Island, Long Beach businesses struck by Superstorm Sandy say they haven’t received loans to rebuild – and the summer season is up in the air.

Don’t let company size take you out of the competition for new grads.

New York City startup Managed by Q has raised $1.65 million in funding to help businesses stay clean and organized.

New York City-based startup Paintzen also announced a $1.81 million seed round of funding.

The New York City-based startup makes affordable jewelry sold online and in Nordstrom and Anthropologie stores.

The winner of the Intuit Small Business Big Game competition is GoldieBlox, which makes educational toys for girls.  

Ten experienced entrepreneurs on what to look for before applying to an incubator or accelerator program.  

Not only are meetings the most efficient ways to get certain things done, they're the most effective tools for managing teams--if they're done right, that is. Here are six tips.

The new online job marketplace also announced a $7 million Series A funding round, led by Trinity Ventures.

In this era of social networking, is there a faster way to get VCs to pay attention to your startup?

Intuit is offering small businesses across the country a chance to win a 30-second Super Bowl commercial.

Here are five ways eBooks can help your business

If you are looking for the next big thing in marketing, might I suggest you take a look in the mirror.

Food52, an online destination for home cooks, will be focusing on its mobile platform and its e-commerce store, Provisions.

While your focus is understandably on immediate survival, what else should you be thinking of, especially where your finances are concerned?

30 kids walk into a classroom, and what happens next is changing the future of business.

Mere customer satisfaction is now a commodity consumers can get anywhere, and they expect no less.  If you want them to remember you and return, you must surprise and delight them.

This is the year for small businesses to prove they are indeed the backbone of the U.S. economy. With agile and affordable technology, SMBs can entice more customers and secure more revenue than their enterprise counterparts. So strap on your party hat, 2014 is the Year of the SMB. Cheers!