Vistaprint - Not Just Free Business Cards

The year was 1995. Robert Keane, an American in Paris attending business school, started a company.

Like many startups, the company struggled at first.

Vistaprint - Not Just Free Business Cards

Startup Helps Survivors Overcome Hardships with Crafts

Consumers love buying goods that come with a story. It makes a simple purchase into an actual experience instead of just a product. And it can be even better if the story comes with some kind of social cause.

TO THE MARKET is a social enterprise that aims to empower those who have survived things like abuse, conflict and disease. The company provides multiple distribution channels for survivors to sell their handmade goods. But it also provides an online platform for them to share their stories with the hope of raising awareness about important issues.

Startup Helps Survivors Overcome Hardships with Crafts

Successful Entrepreneurs Never Do These 7 Things

In a business person’s day, there are always more tasks than hours. The key to being successful is not to do more multitasking in an effort to cram more into each day. It’s not to work harder with longer hours to get everything done. What separates very successful people from the rest of the pack is not what they do, but actually what they never ever do. For example:



Successful Entrepreneurs Never Do These 7 Things

No More Tipping at This Pittsburgh Restaurant

A Pittsburgh eatery has done away with one of the most common practices in the restaurant industry. Bar Marco announced last week that it will eliminate tipping and instead pay its full-time employees a living wage.

Full-time servers at Bar Marco currently make $5 per hour in addition to tips, which is above the state-required minimum wage for servers. But starting in April, the restaurant will instead pay full-time employees an annual salary of $35,000 with health care and company shares.

No More Tipping at This Pittsburgh Restaurant

14 Percent of Millennial Business Owners Use Alternative Lending

It used to be that if you wanted to start a business you had to get a bank loan or bootstrap it yourself. Those days are no longer, as more and more non-traditional lending sources continue to pop up. And more entrepreneurs — particularly young entrepreneurs — are taking notice.

According to a recent Bank of America study, 14 percent of millennial business owners have turned to non-traditional lending services. These include things like peer-to-peer lending platform Lending Club or online service OnDeck Capital, both of which went public within the last month.

14 Percent of Millennial Business Owners Use Alternative Lending