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Women Entrepreneurs Get a Shot at the Entreprenista 100
Applications for the Entreprenista 100 Awards opened this morning, announced September 8 by Entreprenista Media in New York. The program names the top 100 women business owners of 2026...
Business Signage Sways 84% of Shoppers, New Survey Finds
Your sign is doing more selling than you think, according to a national survey Signarama released September 8. Eighty-four percent of Americans said business signage influences whether they buy...
Tips for Entrepreneurs to Protect Their Business and Assets
Building any kind of business is risky, but having the right systems in place can protect your money and ideas before a dispute arises. Don’t wait until it’s too...
Small Business Hiring Slows While Pay Keeps Climbing
Small business hiring cooled again last month, according to the Gusto Small Business Jobs Report published September 3. Small employers added roughly 29,500 net new jobs in August on...
LTL Freight: 5 Ways Merchants Cut Heavy Shipping Costs
ShipStation has pulled less-than-truckload shipping into its main platform, so small and mid-sized sellers can quote, book and track LTL freight in the same place they already handle boxes....
Why Startups Fail: Record Funding, Record Shutdowns
SimpleClosure, a firm that handles company wind downs, has published its shutdown data for the first half of 2026, and the picture is more useful than the headline suggests....
Merchant of Record Push Opens Emerging Markets Faster
Payments company dLocal has launched dMoRe, a merchant of record service aimed at companies that want to sell into fast-growing consumer markets without opening an office there. The announcement...
Build vs Buy Flips as AI Lets Companies Ship In House
Roughly a third of organizations have turned down at least one software purchase and written the thing themselves with agentic coding tools, according to McKinsey’s latest global survey of...
