The Paycheck Protection Program, the U.S. national initiative to provide loans to small companies, has mostly not reached the intended beneficiaries. There is not enough money, and loans so far have often become big businesses. The next round is beset by...

In March 2015 Ryan Michler possessed a successful financial planning firm. His customers were medical professionals. He earned a comfortable living. “I was making great money,” Michler informed me. “But I felt like something was missing. I believed there were opportunities...

It has been two weeks since we started the lockdown in the U.K.. It seems longer. The air is cleaner, and the traffic is quieter. It has been a calm time, but it’s soon over. The nation is slowly waking up;...

The global coronavirus pandemic has significantly and, possibly, irreversibly changed the way the retail industry solves complex business and communication difficulties, increasing reliance on electronic technologies. Retail’s digital transformation, that is the concept of using new electronic technologies to address business...

The development for most direct-to-consumer entrepreneurs would be to conceive a product idea and locate a manufacturer to make it. However, Jaime Schmidt took the opposite approach when she started Schmidt’s natural deodorant in 2010. “I started in our kitchen with...

My ecommerce website went through many visual changes in the 20 years I managed it, from 2000 to 2020. Sometimes I retained a designer, and sometimes I did it myself with all the ecommerce applications I was using right now. One...

Pandemic-induced social distancing, reduced hours of operation, in addition to continued lockdowns and closures could radically alter Christmas shopping behaviors in 2020, requiring retailers to find new ways to serve holiday shoppers and make sales. “There is definitely doubt about in-store...

I asked Sam Parr, the founder of The Hustle, an email newsletter with curated firm and tech information, how he has grown his record over 1 million subscribers. “It’s fricking hard,” he told me. “For the first 100,000, I spent my...

Internet service providers offer online access with several distinct technologies, prices, and prices. That means loads of choices for consumers. Here is a list of big ISPs in the U.S.. These providers offer internet service through DSL, copper, fixed wireless, cable...

What would you do if your credit card processor and merchant account supplier were fraudulent? That is the reality for many thousands of global companies that depended upon Wirecard, the Germany-based financial technology company that’s currently in bankruptcy proceedings, having committed,...