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.

Featured Resources for History

Five Ways Office Cubicles are Awful and How Some Businesses are Abandoning Them

For 315 Years, This Small Business Has Chiseled American History in Stone

The 150-Year History of the Term 'Small Business'

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Benjamin Franklin Never Sought a Patent or Copyright

Benjamin Franklin never sought a patent or copyright. “As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously,” he wrote in his autobiography.