This is an installment of Startup Year One, a special series of interviews with founders about the major lessons they have learned in the immediate aftermath of their businesses’ first year of operation. While pregnant with her first son and working full-time at the United Nations as a strategist for partnerships, business development, and stakeholder […]
The Small Business Administration‘s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans sent out during the coronavirus pandemic were supposed to ensure that small business owners could continue to pay their employees even during pandemic-related shutdowns. However, while many actual small businesses shut down, we learned pretty quickly that a lot of very rich people seemed to have gotten first […]
The start of a new year means the end of copyright protection for a variety of books, songs and movies—and a bonanza of free titles for pop-culture fans. For 2021, these will include works by novelists F. Scott Fitzgerald and Virginia Woolf, actor Buster Keaton, composer Irving Berlin and mystery master Agatha Christie. These are […]