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The entrepreneurial spirit in the U.S. is thriving, and women enjoy ample opportunity among developed countries, according to a joint report by Babson College in Wellesley and New York City's Baruch College.
The Associated Industries of Massachusetts (AIM) Business Confidence Index rose 1.8 points to 54.8 in May, the highest reading since August 2012.
In the first quarter of this year, venture capital investment reached its highest point in more than a decade, with $9.5 billion going to companies nationwide in 951 deals, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers' Money Tree report.
David Crouch had been looking to join a business incubator ever since he launched a digital services company. But for the longest time, he had nowhere to turn locally.
The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC) has awarded $980,000 to Acton biotechnology startup Excellims Corp., which will provide the company with working capital to fund commercialization efforts, the MLSC said.
More than 80 percent of small-business owners are optimistic about what lies ahead for them, just months after many of them came off a strong 2013, according to a survey from marketing firm Constant Contact of Waltham.
Despite owning the first brewery in New England's second largest city, Ben Roesch started small. Wormtown Brewery Co. occupied just 2,000 square feet in a former ice cream parlor on Worcester's Park Avenue when it opened in March 2010. And the
The monthly Associated Industries of Massachusetts (AIM) Business Confidence Index came in at 53 out of a 100-point scale, the highest score since August 2012, just before the impending federal fiscal cliff “crippled confidence in fiscal policy
A Massachusetts Biotechnology Council (MassBio) report released April 3 found that an intense focus on reducing health-care spending could stymie life science
Karyopharm Therapeutics of Natick has produced promising results as it develops its cancer drug, KPT-330. Now, the startup is exploring other potential applications for its technology. Karyopharm CEO Dr. Michael Kauffman said the startup has tested
Worcester-based accounting firm Bollus Lynch said it has merged with the Kashuk, Bourgault, Kittredge & Frustaci (KBKF) accounting firm of Worcester.
Though not as generous as the Senate's package, House Speaker Robert DeLeo's proposal to raise the minimum wage to $10.50 an hour would still give Massachusetts the highest wage floor in the country. However, it remains to be seen whether it will be
Massachusetts is used to being on the cutting edge. In politics and social change or in technology and innovation, our commonwealth is usually leading the way, embracing good ideas before other states have even heard of them.
A little over five years ago, Peter Rucinski couldn't have told you the first thing about yoga.
Attorney General Martha Coakley has joined 41 other attorneys general in supporting federal legislation against “patent trolls” to “address frivolous and abusive patent lawsuits that threaten small, start-up businesses.”