Small Business
Success 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 you’re dealing with a huge corporatesupplier. By leveraging its reputation and relationship with the University of Pittsburgh, BEAM was ableto realign the university’s need for…
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. But Britton says she has had help. She said BEAM Collaborative helped her not only in seeing those possibilities, but in turning them into a…
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 worry, because the canary is now on life support. The Trump administration’s immediate rejection of a request by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to exempt…
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