The air is riddled with cliches during economic downturns, largely because the purveyors of said cliches are longing to say something encouraging and they don’t have the data to do it.
One of those oft-heard cliches concerns the number of successful (and very large) companies we have today that were started during recessions. Microsoft, Apple and [...]
If you were able to cull all the standard advice in order to design the perfect online microbusiness retail outfit, it would look something like this:
First, find a market niche. Then offer your niche a set of products that are difficult to find, at prices that most will be able to afford (even if those [...]
The sign says “Beware of CHICKEN” and, yes, that really is a chicken. Welcome to upstate New York, home of nonemployer microbusiness Silver Top Graphics and its owners Dan Flanagan and Lisa Tait.
If there is a single industry sector in which one expects to find microbusinesses — other than professional and technical services, that is — it is probably the information technology sector.
Part of the reason for that is has to do with the sorts of Heroes of Capitalism myths and stories with which we Americans like [...]
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