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People to Meet in 2022: Derek Canton
December 20, 2021Canton has formed his career around the belief the purpose of financial technology, or fintech, is to address the needs of the community.
December 20, 2021
People to Meet in 2022: Aaron Birt
Updated: December 20, 2021Beyond his business success, Aaron Birt is giving back to the community, helping to support the Central Mass. entrepreneurial ecosystem
Updated: December 20, 2021
Here are 22 people you should meet in 2022
December 20, 2021To help you navigate the ins and outs of the region's business community, WBJ has compiled a list for its Economic Forecast edition of 22 people who will have an outsized role in shaping those trends.
December 20, 2021
Worcester is seeing a resurgence of minority-owned small businesses
Updated: December 6, 2021To say the coronavirus pandemic impacted small businesses would be a serious understatement. Lockdowns, supply chain shortages, labor shortages, and inflation have hindered businesses and forced industries to quickly adapt or close up shop.
Updated: December 6, 2021
Cannabis regulators & local operators take up the fight for industry equity
Updated: September 13, 2021Inequalities in the industry persist, and large multistate operators continue to dominate the cannabis market, even in the face of several Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission programs designed to give certain groups of people a leg up in
Updated: September 13, 2021
Worcester’s colleges have fostered a startup ecosystem to help students become business owners
Updated: May 24, 2021When Becker College in Worcester announced it will be closing its doors in August, the Massachusetts Digital Games Institute had a big question to answer. The statewide center for video game entrepreneurship, known as MassDiGi, had been based at the
Updated: May 24, 2021
State cannabis regulators fear investors are exploiting minority entrepreneurs
May 13, 2021Massachusetts marijuana regulators are concerned about a recent significant uptick in reports of potential industry investors who targeted economic empowerment and social equity program entrepreneurs with unfair contract terms.
May 13, 2021
2021 Power 50: Jon Weaver
Updated: May 10, 2021Worcester has a cluster of colleges and population density unlike anything else in Massachusetts outside Boston and its immediate suburbs, so it’s only natural that Worcester’s been making a long push to build a life sciences-based startup culture
Updated: May 10, 2021
Two Black Lives Matter-inspired startups aim to educate
Updated: February 22, 2021In summer of 2020, Price was spending time with those closest to him, watching the Black Lives Matter movement expand in the aftermath of George Floyd’s killing by Minneapolis police and trying to figure out what he should do next.
Updated: February 22, 2021
Leadership Worcester announces Class of 2021
August 27, 2020The Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce announced the 27 members of its upcoming Leadership Worcester class of 2021, on Wednesday.
August 27, 2020
40 Under Forty 2020: Zu Shen
Updated: August 17, 2020In 2018, Zu Shen joined MBI as vice president, counseling startup companies scientifically and advising them on commercializing their technologies.
Updated: August 17, 2020
WBJ announces the 40 Under Forty, Class of 2020
Updated: August 17, 2020This year’s 40 Under Forty class is certainly like no other. Although full of the archetypal up-and-coming leaders of Central Massachusetts business organizations, each member of the Class of 2020 has found a way to thrive in the midst of an
Updated: August 17, 2020
40 Under Forty 2020: Dave Ryan
Updated: August 17, 2020By the time Dave Ryan was 25, he was already a corporate controller of a $50-million manufacturing company, Superior Cake Products. Ryan impressively grew United Medical Waste from a startup to a multimillion dollar company in – wait for it – five
Updated: August 17, 2020
40 Under Forty 2020: Amanda Theinert
Updated: August 17, 2020It is Becker’s master’s in fine arts program that houses the school’s renowned video game design program, and it’s Amanda Theinert who helped build the curriculum and get the new academic program running.
Updated: August 17, 2020
Uxbridge marijuana startup's advice to would-be entrepreneurs: Stay lean
July 15, 2020In an interview on the WBJ Podcast, the co-founders of Uxbridge cannabis startup Blackstone Valley Naturals said the key to surviving Massachusetts' long and expensive regulatory process is to stay as lean as possible.
July 15, 2020
State providing $100K grants for coworking spaces to adapt to coronavirus
June 30, 2020Coworking spaces looking to purchase new equipment or undergo building improvements intended to implement social distancing and coronavirus-related safety standards may apply for grants of up to $100,000 through the MassDevelopment’s Collaborative
June 30, 2020
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