Posts by Micah Arnold
A Case Study: Timing isn’t Everything, But it’s Important
When it comes to selling a small business, timing is an important element that many local businessowners don’t factor into their decision-making. “Timing isn’t everything, but it is very important,”…
Read MoreSweat Equity Is Not a Tangible Asset
That small business you started ten, twenty, perhaps forty years ago, is not just where you workand what you do. It is far more – it is who you are.…
Read MoreSuccess Story: Reed Building Supply
By Joel Burstein, CEO, BEAM Collaborative It’s a known fact – when dollars are spent at local small businesses, they generally stay withinthe community. But that becomes more challenging when…
Read MoreA Small Business Successfully Evolves to Meet a Changing Marketplace
Blayre Britton is, by almost any measure, the walking personification of small business success.She has that rare ability to use today’s reality as a lens to focus on tomorrow’s possibilities.…
Read MoreProposed 2025 Budget Invests $100 Million in Economic Development
PITTSBURGH – At today’s Allegheny County Economic Development Authorities meeting, the Redevelopment Authority of Allegheny County (RAAC) approved several major actions to drive housing, innovation, and community development forward. The Redevelopment…
Read MoreWorkforce Talent Hub eyeing 2025 for rollout of new initiatives
Local leadership can help Black-owned businesses overcomethe systemic hurdles in their way
Read MoreAcquiring and retaining AI and digital talent through M&A
Acquiring AI and digital talent through M&A requires a different approach. WTW offers research-based insights to help effectively transition and retain AI professionals during your M&A process.
Read MoreShut Out by the System: Why Corporate America Fails—and How Small Business Offers a Way Forward
By Joel Burstein, CEO, BEAM Collaborative Corporate America promises stability and advancement, but for many, it delivers exclusion. Older professionals laid off after decades of service. Veterans navigating the civilian…
Read MoreThe tariffs are killing Pittsburgh’s small businesses
By Joel Burstein, CEO, BEAM Collaborative If Pennsylvania’s small businesses are the canary in the coal mine in gauging the effects of Trump’s trade war on our state, we should…
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