Tag: Entrepreneurship
Seeding small business and job growth
At a time when the nation's headline unemployment rate sits near an all-time low, firms with fewer than 20 employees experienced the largest growth...
Latino entrepreneurs are growing in number
An incredible momentum is building for a sector of entrepreneurs, with little indication of slowing down. It’s great news for Latino business owners; their...
“We need to develop a people-centered, rather than task-centered, economy.”
There is no question that across the country there is great uncertainty about what the future will look like and much debate about how...
Weekly Changemaker: Ron Busby
"I tell young people, 'I would not look at a job as just a job but instead as a new list of learned skills.'"
This...
Weekly Changemaker: Carmen Tapio
This week, WorkingNation's #WeeklyChangemaker is Carmen Tapio, the president & CEO of North End Teleservices.
In partnership with the Omaha Economic Development Corp., Carmen created...
Helping entrepreneurial veterans finance their dreams
Historically, starting their own business has been a good career path for men and women after they leave the military service. That’s changed over...
It takes longer for women veterans to find a job
Transitioning out of the military into the civilian workforce can prove difficult across the board. For women veterans, it can be especially tough. Approximately...
Weekly Changemaker: Angela Benton
This week's #WeeklyChangemaker is Angela Benton, a true pioneer of diversity in the technology industry who is founder and CEO of Streamlytics, and in 2011,...
We need everybody off the bench
Technology is changing how we do our jobs and its having an impact on businesses big and small. There are more than seven million...
Vivian Greentree on entrepreneurship employment opportunities for veterans
Before she became a Senior Vice President and head of Global Corporate Citizenship, Dr. Vivian Greentree served as First Data’s Head of Military &...
