Back to the Future Day: What SmallBusiness.com Looked Like in 2001
For “Back to the Future Day,” a brief history of SmallBusiness.com.
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History
History can teach many lessons about starting and running a small business. In many ways, the history of civilization is interwoven with the history of small farms, tradesmen and merchants.
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Why a Genius Like Elon Musk is Such an Awful Presenter
No doubt he’s a genius, but there is one thing Elon Musk is notoriously bad at doing: orchestrating a product launch event and dealing with the media.
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Recalling the Role of Local Restauranteurs in Rebuilding New Orleans
Today, through perseverance, hard work and believing New Orleans is a great culinary destination, there are more restaurants open now than before Katrina.
Small Business Inspiration
Lessons From Two Failed Small Businessmen Who Won the Civil War
150 years later, we remember two men who failed at business, but who guided the Union Army to victory in the Civil War–and what we can learn from them.
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Thomas Jefferson’s Views on Patents and Intellectual Property Rights
A SmallBusiness.com flashback for April 13, Thomas Jefferson’s Birthday
The Role of Barbershops in the History of African-American Entrepreneurship
A new book describes how the black-owned barbershop became one of the first ways African-American men become entrepreneurs.