business Young entrepreneur’s £300 bedroom start-up becomes booming 7-figure business Christin Hakim, April 2, 2023March 19, 2023 Seventeen-year-old George Greenhill established Protein Package in 2017 at his parents’ home in Wolverhampton while still at Sixth Form College in Stourbridge. The online platform – which ships mix and match snack orders sourced from all over the world directly to the customer – was started with a mere investment… Continue Reading
business Kalamazoo Start-Up Center helps entrepreneurs overcome common business obstacles Christin Hakim, April 21, 2022 KALAMAZOO, MI — Desi Taylor started her first business while she was a college student at Western Michigan University. Her second venture was designed to help others bitten by the entrepreneurial bug. Taylor, now 30, recently opened the Kalamazoo Start-Up Center with a goal of filling a void in the… Continue Reading
business Want to start your own business? Entrepreneurs share their best tips Christin Hakim, February 12, 2022 Starting a new business? If you are, you’re certainly not alone. In fact, these past two years have been banner years for people launching a new company. Perhaps they were quitting jobs as part of the “Great Resignation.” Or, maybe since folks working from home had more time, or maybe it… Continue Reading
business New ‘Test Kitchen’ to help start, develop and sustain entrepreneurs Christin Hakim, February 8, 2022 HONOLULU (KHON2) — As an entrepreneur, starting a small business is a challenge within itself. But when the business deals with food, the challenges only increase. Fortunately, at the McCully Shopping Center, a brand-new Test Kitchen will be opening up shortly to help start, develop, and sustain up-and-coming entrepreneurs. Check out… Continue Reading
business Three entrepreneurs quit to start their own businesses Christin Hakim, February 5, 2022 Chelsea Kidd quit her job in 2021 to start SiteWell Solutions, a wellness consulting business focusing on remote workers. Source: Chelsea Kidd The “Great Resignation” has workers leaving their jobs in droves. Yet they aren’t all looking for a new company to work for — many have opted to go… Continue Reading
business Starting entrepreneurs on the right foot Christin Hakim, January 31, 2022 One of the great things about being an entrepreneur is that there are always so many people and organizations who want to help. The other side of that coin is the flinty-eyed question that every successful entrepreneur eventually learns to ask: “Is this the help I need right now?” Accepting… Continue Reading
business DIGITAL.COM SURVEY FINDS S 43 PERCENT OF AMERICANS PLAN TO START A BUSINESS IN 2022, AND ONE-THIRD ARE FIRST -TIME ENTREPRENEURS Christin Hakim, January 23, 2022 Retail, finance, and information technology are among the most popular industries to start a new business this year East County News Service Photo: CC via Bing January 22, 2022 (San Diego) – Workers are leaving jobs at a record pace amid the pandemic, as CNBC recently reported. Fear of COVID, burnout… Continue Reading
business Why Intelligent Entrepreneurs Like Mark Cuban Embrace the Rule of Niche at Scale Christin Hakim, December 8, 2021 Someone I know wants to start a small business. He’s eager. He’s enthusiastic. He’s the right age. (While any age can be the right age, research reveals that older entrepreneurs tend to be more successful, even with tech startups.) He has an idea, and he’s thinking big. “Disruptive big,” as… Continue Reading
Automotive Fighting for equity: How Maine female entrepreneurs are beating the odds to raise capital Christin Hakim, December 3, 2021 As Atlantic Sea Farms CEO Briana Warner raises more than $4.5 million in venture capital to finance a new 27,000-square-foot kelp-processing facility in Biddeford, she recalls early pitches to unwelcoming investors. “It was fairly deflating in every way,” Warner says three years after taking the helm of the country’s first… Continue Reading
business Entrepreneurs learn, engage, collaborate during GEW Penn State Christin Hakim, November 18, 2021 Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) Penn State, presented by the Penn State Small Business Development Center (SBDC), hosted a total of 52 events across Penn State campus communities from Nov. 8-12. Seven more will occur in the coming weeks, bringing the grand total to 59 events. Events were held via online,… Continue Reading