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Some family businesses are more resilient because of a long-term focus and a commitment to customers. Careful spending like a 'frugal Yankee' helps too.
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Discussing what private markets like SharesPost and SecondMarket will do after Facebook no longer trades among them, with Greg Brogger, SharesPost founder/president.
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President Obama just signed the JOBS Act into law and one of its goals is to enable small business to hire more employees by making it easier for them to raise money. CNBC's Julia Boorstin and Debra Borchardt, The Street, discuss.
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U2’s lead singer Bono and band guitarist The Edge have invested in the cloud storage start-up company Dropbox.
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Andy Samberg is an investor in start-up CanaryHop, which connects travelers and guides. His latest video promotes his new business venture.
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Entrepeneurship is at its highest rates in almost two decades, but job growth remains at slow and steady incline. The picture shows that perhaps small business is not the job generator that is portrayed to be.
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The spouse of an entrepreneur reports that when someone decides to start a company, they take the entire family along for the ride.
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The 16th Annual Kauffman Startup Index of entrepreneurship activity reveals startups declined 6% in 2011 vs. 2010.
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Showing that they can on occasion work together, House lawmakers on Thursday overwhelmingly passed a package of bills making it easier for small businesses and startups to raise the capital they need to grow and hire new workers.
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The West Coast's Silicon Valley may be known as the birth-place of the American high-tech economy, but the East Coast is quickly becoming a hub for more and more would-be tech titans.
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The Great Recession and its aftermath may have a lasting effect on entrepreneurship, as the rate of unemployed people starting businesses has hit an all-time low, according to a report by outplacement consultancy Challenger, Gray & Christmas.
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In its latest executive action, the White House announced new steps Thursday to spur startup businesses and help them access $2 billion in resources.
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Forced to pay back loans shortly after graduation, many soon-to-be graduates say they would take any job they could find, even if was something far outside their field of study. This exercise will likely set them back for years, pushing their entrepreneurial desires to the back burner, if not off the table entirely.