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Q&A: Artisan entrepreneur expanding Sterling handmade goods shop
Updated: November 27, 2023Leanne Boudreau was among countless scrappy small business owners who pivoted during the COVID pandemic to survive. Yet Notown Goods, a Sterling retail shop selling handmade goods from artisans across the U.S., didn’t just make it through; it boomed.
Updated: November 27, 2023
Hazy future: Five years after recreational legalization, cannabis faces multiple battles in the next five years
Updated: November 27, 2023While the first five years saw more than $5 billion in sales and hundreds of businesses opening, uncertainty awaits ahead for the next five years.
Updated: November 27, 2023
Champions of Health Care: Hutt strengthens providers’ financials in the shift to preventative care
Updated: November 27, 2023Healthcare providers, especially smaller ones, have difficulty thinking about long-term financial planning and navigating complex payment structures. That’s where Matthew Hutt and his team of tax professionals step in.
Updated: November 27, 2023
Five years after adult-use dispensaries opened, Mass. cannabis businesses have more banking options
Updated: November 13, 2023After a ballot initiative to legalize medical marijuana was approved by Massachusetts voters in the 2012 election, finding a bank that was willing to provide services to a cannabis business was a bit like trying to buy marijuana before it was legal.
Updated: November 13, 2023
Q&A: Coworking franchise flourishes in Marlborough
Updated: November 13, 2023A separately-owned Venture X franchise is slated to open in the Mercantile Center in Worcester in the coming months. Gagne talked about why coworking is gaining momentum in Central Massachusetts and beyond in an interview in October.
Updated: November 13, 2023
Business confidence shifts into slightly optimistic territory
November 6, 2023Confidence among Massachusetts businesses tipped from ever so slightly pessimistic in September to ever so slightly optimistic in October.
November 6, 2023
MBI grants $240K to seven organization for diversity and workforce development
October 30, 2023Worcester life sciences incubator Massachusetts Biomedical Initiatives has awarded seven grants to local individuals and companies as part of its 2023 Challenge Grants program.
October 30, 2023
Fitting in: Clark is balancing a need for new facilities with trying to avoid sprawl
Updated: October 30, 2023The need for growth is forcing Clark to expand, but the university is taking steps to be a good neighbor through thoughtful development and attempts to continue to integrate itself in the community with which it has been entwined since 1887.
Updated: October 30, 2023
Business services in Massachusetts
Updated: October 30, 2023There is help out there for people who are starting or growing a business. The following is a list of some of the most prominent organizations who provide services for businesses.
Updated: October 30, 2023
Two local B Corps say compassionate business leads to better outcomes for everybody
Updated: October 30, 2023Two local companies tell how compassionate business helps steer the ship.
Updated: October 30, 2023
Clinton brewery to open second location inside Devens biomanufacturing campus
October 24, 2023Sterling Street Brewery, a microbrewery based in Clinton, is planning on opening a second location in Devens next year. The new location will occupy a 8,300-square-foot building in Pathway Devens.
October 24, 2023
Lancaster farm loaned $45K to improve operations
October 24, 2023Lancaster-based Deershorn Farm and Taxidermy has received a $45,000 working capital loan from the North Central Massachusetts Development Corp. in Fitchburg.
October 24, 2023
Northborough private dining services company gets $35K in financing for jobs and equipment
October 17, 2023Gather Provisions of Northborough received a $35,000 loan from the North Central Massachusetts Chamber of Commerce in partnership with TD Bank.
October 17, 2023
Outstanding Women in Business: Russo overcame an old boys network to build her furniture business
Updated: October 16, 2023Claudia Russo has never backed down because of roadblocks in her way, and it’s a good thing since she’s faced countless obstacles on the road to running her now multi-million-dollar office furniture sales firm, Workplace Resource.
Updated: October 16, 2023
Outstanding Women in Business: Hernandez champions Worcester's self-made entrepreneurs
Updated: October 16, 2023She found it frustrating, though, seeing so many local businesses shuttering shortly after they opened. It was this cycle that motivated her to open GEM Marketing Solutions in 2016, a hyper-local, Worcester-focused company offering affordable
Updated: October 16, 2023
Outstanding Women in Business: Dawkins turned a rape crisis center into a national model
Updated: October 16, 2023Now as president and CEO of Pathways for Change, a leading rape crisis center in Massachusetts, Dawkins’ work directly impacts the lives of those impacted by sexual violence.
Updated: October 16, 2023
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