"Three years ago, I started a business with two other guys. We set up a limited liability company (LLC) and split the ownership 40 percent, 40 percent and 20 percent.

The business grew for about a year but then really tapered off when the ...

"A partner and I invested in a franchise last year. The franchise offers a variety of healthy foods, but focuses primarily on soups and salads.

We were offered a number of territories, but chose a large downtown area in an upscale Midwestern ...

I was privileged to be one of the "makeover artists" at this year's New York Business Xpo, held last week at the Javits Center in New York City. More than 400 exhibitors and some of the top entrepreneurship experts in the country have made this ...

During the afternoon session of last week's Business Plan Competition sponsored by The Entrepreneurship Foundation (www.entrepreneurshipfoundation.org), the focus was on "personal businesses" (retail and service concepts that weren't likely to ...

Each year, the Entrepreneurship Foundation (www.entrepreneurshipfoundation.org) hosts a business plan competition in New Haven, Connecticut.

"Teams" from universities throughout New England submit business plans to the competition, and the 25 ...

As I am writing this, I am covered in dust.

A couple of weeks ago, my mom entered a skilled nursing facility, leaving me a task I have dreaded for the past couple of decades:

Cleaning out her apartment.

I'm an only child, so there's no one I ...