Small Business
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 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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