small businesses

Celebrating Hispanic heritage this month continues with the spotlight on a local nonprofit helping Latino-owned small businesses.

Celebrating Hispanic heritage this month continues with the spotlight on a local nonprofit helping Latino-owned small businesses.

July is independent retailers month, and a group is pushing for Congress to act quickly on a bill that would have a major impact on small businesses across the country. The American Innovation and Choice Online Act would ban major tech firms like Amazon and Google from favoring their products over their competitors. However, the Connected Commerce Council believes the...

Asian Pacific America: Bay Area Banking Manager shares tips and resources available for business-owners building back during the pandemic.

Americans love their four-legged friends, but their 163 million dogs and cats certainly leave a giant paw-print on the environment — especially when it comes to pet poop. For small businesses who work with pets, it can be a challenge to find ways to curb their own climate impact while catering to their furry clientele.

Maybe you’ve run into this problem over the years: you want to catch some of the biggest female sports stars compete – only there’s nowhere to actually watch these games. That was the issue Portland native Jenny Nguyen, a sports fan and former basketball player, kept running into, so she decided to create a solution: the Sports Bra. The Sports Bra...

Jenny Nguyen got frustrated back in 2018 when she was trying to watch the NCAA women’s basketball final, and none of the TVs at a local sports bar were showing the big game. Out of that frustration, Nguyen conceived the idea for The Sports Bra, her Portland hangout where women’s sports are always on and the best athletes in women’s...

Two bakeries in the San Francisco Bay Area made Yelp’s list of best in the U.S.

It appears two years of struggling to stay open is finally starting to pay off for many Bay Area small businesses.

It appears two years of struggling to stay open is finally starting to pay off for many Bay Area small businesses. Damian Trujillo reports.

Small businesses were some of the hardest hit during the pandemic. In Carlsbad, the tough times actually brought several female-owned businesses together. Saturday, they threw a block party called ‘Girls on Grand’ showing their support for each other and the community that has kept them afloat. Four female-owned businesses on Grand Avenue welcomed old and new customers together, they...

The term “sober-curious” isn’t new, but over the past few years more Millennials and members of Gen Z are embracing the movement and opting out of the booze on big nights out – and not for the reasons you might think. “I haven’t been drinking for a number of years for no particular reason – like there’s no medical...

More businesses are falling victim to cyber and ransomware attacks, experts say, and software company Check Point says small businesses should establish two separate security programs to make themselves less vulnerable.

The San Francisco Office of Economic and Workforce Development on Friday announced financial recovery grants available for small businesses.

Hatch Show Print is a 142-year-old letterpress print shop that is still using a 500-year-old process to make its handmade gig, concert and event posters. Dolly Parton, Elvis Presley, Bruce Springsteen and Ozzy Osbourne are just a few of the entertainers whose concert posters have been handcrafted by Hatch Show Print over the years. NBCLX contributor Greg Bledsoe took his...

Sharply higher costs are yet another challenge thrown at business owners by the global pandemic.