Watching the bottom line is key for small business owners. An article from financial website, The Motley Fool, offers three tips for things your small business might be able to reduce, or eliminate, in order to save a few dollars. Take a look at the number of people you employ full-time. Are all of them busy […]

Small business owners in Delaware will have access to additional types of business loans and services under a new partnership among three nonprofits announced this week. Under the partnership among West End Neighborhood House, SeedcoDE and FINANTA, Delaware small business owners will have access to the following financial products, according to a news release from the […]

A new report from online lending platform Fundera finds that companies in the electronics manufacturing, building materials/home furnishings and retail industries had the greatest success in obtaining a business loan. Fundera looked at data from more than 6,500 businesses in 58 industries that applied for a loan on Fundera’s platform in the three months ended March 31. […]

SAS Nanotechnologies has been named one of the winners of an international competition organized by AkzoNobel, the Netherlands-based paint and coatings maker. SAS, which is located in Newark, has developed an additive that prevents paints and other coatings from corroding and heals existing corrosion. The company will collaborate with AkzoNobel through a joint development agreement it was awarded […]

A report from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation points out the difficulty many business owners have in accessing outside capital to start a business and the impact this has on the health of the business. Just 16.5 percent of business owners said they received a business loan from a bank or other financial institution when […]

As part of National Small Business Week, Barclays US Consumer Bank hosted a pitch competition and expo last week at which small business owners enrolled in West End Neighborhood House’s Launcher entrepreneur program sold their products and competed for prize money. Delaware Division of Small Business Director Damian DeStefano was one of the judges for the competition […]

If you own a store, you know that Memorial Day weekend likely means extra business. In 2018, consumers said they expected to spend an estimated $36 billion during the three-day holiday weekend, according to MFour Mobile Research and Vistar Media. That works out to an average of $489.46 per adult with men expected to spend an […]

It seems like happiness and owning one’s own business go hand-in-hand. Thirty-seven percent of current and would-be small business owners rated their happiness a “10” on a scale of 1-to-10, according to a survey by small business lender Guidant Financial and LendingClub. The average rating was “8” and almost three-quarters of the more than 2,700 […]

Chase for Business’s BizMobile will be in downtown Wilmington on May 10, offering small business owners free one-on-one consultations on how to get access to capital. The 27-foot mobile business advice center, which Chase launched in 2018,  will be in Rodney Square from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. It is part of a nationwide tour that this year […]

National Small Business Week is May 5-11. As part of the activities, on Tuesday, May 7 and Wednesday, May 8 the U.S. Small Business Administration and SCORE are hosting two days of webinars covering a variety of topics of interest to small business owners. The hour-long programs range from an explanation of  SBA’s various funding programs to how to improve your […]