A guide to helping small businesses navigate and recover from the COVID-19 crisis March 31, 2020 The Small Business Association (SBA) is the first stop for entrepreneurs seeking relief – plus other options for those who don’t qualify.
List of 40 Risk-Takers We asked our readers for the names of people currently and in history they would consider exemplary risk-takers. Following are thumbnail biographies of the submissions, plus a few others we added in to round out the list.
How Quickly do Entrepreneurs Hire? March 27, 2020 This brief presents national and state trends for the speed at which new businesses become employers by converting the 2018 New Employer Business Report's new employer business velocity indicator from quarters to days.
Reader’s Response: Who has helped you along the way? March 26, 2020 More than 300 readers shared details about their personal journey, and who (if anyone) has helped them along the way.
Is hard work alone enough? March 26, 2020 We asked our readers to respond to the American ideal that anyone can pull themselves up by their own bootstraps. Here's what they had to say.
The urgent, messy, imperfect work none of us should hide from March 26, 2020 Doing the work to build self-awareness and deep relationships in order to sustain diversity, equity, and inclusion not as an “initiative” but as the fundamental “how” of our work.
Fighting Goliath March 25, 2020 Dr. Christopher Emdin calls on educators of color to examine their essential role to impact the lives of students of color who are challenged to succeed in an education system not meant for them.
How Quickly do New Employer Businesses Hire? March 20, 2020 Entrepreneurship is often heralded as important to the economy because of its job creation effects. These jobs come from new employer businesses, a small but important subset of entrepreneurial activity in the United States.
From the CEO: Working together for a way forward March 19, 2020 Our mission remains as we find our way through this challenging time.
The entrepreneurial energy of immigrant business owners – and the hidden barriers they face March 19, 2020 Opportunity America conducted a series of roundtables and a survey of immigrant entrepreneurs, seeking to understand the extraordinary entrepreneurial energy many newcomers bring to the U.S. and how the barriers they face are different from those confronting native-born founders.