Entrepreneurship & Small Business

In 2008, we almost lost our opportunity to enjoy Starbucks coffee and the ambience of its stores. The stock had plunged by 65 percent, and same-store sales had dropped dramatically.

Wild Flour Bakery & Café will expand into the organic bread business by opening a new production and retail facility in East Troy.

Wisconsin banks have increased their small business lending by $16.9 million since receiving capital through Small Business Lending Fund (SBLF), according to a new report by the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

Qualifying! It's probably the most under-valued and under-performed activity in sales. If almost any sales organization were to double its effectiveness at qualifying – which is painfully easy to achieve – it would deliver at least 10 percent to its bottom line overnight.

Wisconsin banks have increased their small business lending by $16.9 million since receiving capital through Small Business Lending Fund (SBLF), according to a new report by the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

Four venerable Wisconsin business executives will be inducted into the Wisconsin Business Hall of Fame by Junior Achievement during a ceremony on Thursday, April 19, at the Pfister Hotel in Milwaukee.

You've been thinking about starting your own company for quite a while. In fact, the ideas you jotted down on your laptop are haunting you each night as you wonder, “What if someone else does this first?”

Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele will discuss how to foster a better business climate in the county when he is the featured guest at an event hosted by the Independent Business Association of Wisconsin (IBA ).

Congress has given many business owners an incredible tax bonus by increasing the lifetime gift tax exemption amount to more than $5 million, but only until the end of this year. Barring additional legislative action, that exemption will expire and be reduced to only $1 million. This gift tax exemption level provides many business owners an unprecedented opportunity to pass on the family business free of exposure to wealth transfer taxes.

When strategic plans, effectively executed, fail to drive growth a number of root causes are usually at work. Leaders...