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I'm a cookie baker from Denver already dealing with soaring egg and chocolate prices. Trump's tariffs are going to hit my small business hard.

Mon, 04/14/2025 - 01:18

Beth Pratt, a baker from Denver, sources her cookie bags from China.
Beth Pratt

Retail, Food, trump-tariffs, small-businesses, Cookies, as-told-to

How descendants of Taj Mahal artisans are keeping marble inlay work alive

Fri, 10/11/2024 - 15:28

Parchin kari, or pietra dura in Italian, is the art of marble inlay, which involves carving out marble slabs and inserting precious and semiprecious stones to create elaborate floral and geometric patterns.

Small Business, Travel, Video, India, marble-inlay, art, video-format-still-standing

Small businesses like restaurants and cafés are now offering childcare to prevent employee turnover

Sun, 04/07/2024 - 16:38

Tech Insider : Economy

A close-up of young children playing with toys. — US childcare costs are crushing employees.
Lourdes Balduque/Getty

economy, child-care, small-businesses, employee-retention

A millennial who credited TikTok for his business's $700,000 sales in 2022 said he's afraid he'll lose it all if the US bans the app: 'Our representatives have no problem throwing all of our lives away'

Fri, 03/15/2024 - 09:31

Tech Insider : Economy, Economy

economy, economy, tiktok, Instagram, China, Bytedance, Entrepreneurs

A TikTok-famous hairstylist went viral for fixing bad dye jobs for free. It soon backfired.

Fri, 03/15/2024 - 06:38

Tech Insider

woman getting her hair dyed in a salon — A hair styling TikTok stunt has become a cautionary tale for entrepreneurs (stock image).
Tatsiana Volkava/Getty Images

culture, Careers, tiktok, Hair, hair-stylist, hairdressers, Beauty

Small business sentiment dropped by most in 13 months in January as inflation, labor costs bite

Tue, 02/13/2024 - 15:12

Tech Insider : Economy, Economy

Small Business Holiday Hopes — A child browses through the toys on display at Annie's Blue Ribbon General Store, Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2021, in the Brooklyn borough of New York.
AP Photo/Mary Altaffer

economy, Markets, economy, small-businesses, Inflation, labor-cost, fed-rate-cuts

I got accepted to Amazon's DSP program and launched my own delivery business. I now make $3 million in revenue and own 38 vans.

Sun, 10/29/2023 - 07:39

Tech Insider

Sophia Strother says her team has been able to deliver over 4 million packages and completed over 20,000 routes.

Jarvis Releford

Careers, Entrepreneurship, amazon, amazon-delivery-drivers, delivery-drivers, small-businesses, employee-retention

A former biology teacher who bought a small-town bookstore explains how she made the business profitable and competes with behemoths like Amazon

Fri, 09/15/2023 - 12:32

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adah fitzgerald msb — Adah Fitzgerald bought Main Street Books in Davidson, North Carolina in 2015.
Courtesy of Main Street Books

Small Business, banking-on-small-businesss, small-business, small-businesses, edit-series, editorial-sponsorship, bookstore

'Shark Tank' investor Kevin O'Leary warns of 'real chaos' in the coming months as high interest rates batter the US economy

Mon, 08/28/2023 - 11:16

Tech Insider : Economy

Retail, Food, trump-tariffs, small-businesses, Cookies, as-told-to

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economy, child-care, small-businesses, employee-retention

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culture, Careers, tiktok, Hair, hair-stylist, hairdressers, Beauty

economy, Markets, economy, small-businesses, Inflation, labor-cost, fed-rate-cuts

Careers, Entrepreneurship, amazon, amazon-delivery-drivers, delivery-drivers, small-businesses, employee-retention

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