small business

Alejandro Lopez immigrated to America in 1995 with his wife and four kids. The Guadalajara native worked for an office furniture company as a furniture assembler before finally leaping into his American Dream. Opening the El Valle grocery store in…

Jaim Krutz, co-owner of Big Cuppa coffee shop in Morrilton, has been named the 2022 Small Business Person of the Year for Arkansas by the U.S. Small Business Administration. SBA Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman announced Thursday the 2022 Small Business…

Local project specialist Timothy Lee recently retired at the end of March, after working for 27 years at the Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center at UA Little Rock. If you’ve never met Lee in person, you may recognize…

The Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center is offering its first-ever ‘Digital Marketing Masterclass’ in April. Shane Barker, founder of Clout Consulting LLC, will lead the virtual course from California. The masterclass offers eight hours of instruction and hands-on…

12 teams of college students have advanced to the final round of the 2022 annual Arkansas Governor’s Cup Collegiate Business Plan Competition, presented by Arkansas Capital Corporation. Six of the teams, three in the High-Growth / Technology Division and three…

It’s something of a trick question to say that small business’ primary challenges are not COVID-related in the new year. After all, nearly everything concerning small business has in some way been affected by COVID, from staffing to inflation to…

Digital.com recently surveyed 1,000 U.S. business owners to see what their plans were for implementing crypto payments, and found that nearly one in three say they plan to work with Dogecoin in the near future. The meme-based cryptocurrency Dogecoin spiked late…

Women interested in starting or growing their own companies can learn from other women who are excelling in research, innovation and business at “accelHERate,” presented by the Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center. On March 8, 2022, International Women’s…

A recent report is looking at the U.S. metropolitan areas that have seen the largest increase in new business applications. The pandemic caused hundreds of thousands of American businesses to permanently shut their doors. Still, between 2019 and 2020, there was…

Most people probably would not expect Jonesboro, Arkansas to be a center of superhero fandom, comic book aficionados and other nerd culture. But over the past five years, B&B Collections has proven them wrong by becoming a hotbed of “all…