Wheeling, West Virginia Made their Main Street Relevant with Entrepreneurship. Learn how Your Community can do the Same.
Read on to learn how Wheeling Heritage leveraged entrepreneurship to create more than 2,000 new jobs and reduce their building vacancy rate by half.
The Businesses We Can Save
Let’s face the facts: COVID-19 has wrecked many small businesses. One of the saddest experiences of 2020 (aside from the sickness, heartbreak, and grief this pandemic has inflicted on us) has been walking along a street you used to know well—whether in a large city or a small town main street—and seeing the shutters. Craving a meal from […]
We Created a Program to Help Businesses Rebuild. Here’s What We’ve Learned So Far.
Entrepreneurs are made, not born.
I’m Ready to Get Creative With My Business. Now Where Do I Start?
Design thinking is just a fancy term for problem solving—but how exactly do you do it? A chief creative breaks down the basics of design thinking for entrepreneurs.
Need a Mask? These Starters Have You Covered.
Spread only good things and shop masks made by our very own CO.STARTERS graduates.
The Secret to Creativity Is Not What You Think
Entrepreneur psychologist and author Shelley Prevost reveals the key to becoming more creative in order to solve problems in your business.
Marketing as a Human Being to Human Beings
Marketing expert Jacqui Jones shares tips on how to market authentically during a crisis.
Moving Your Small Business Online
Dane Johnson from The Nice Center gives practical tips for what small business owners need to do (and what they don't) to start selling and marketing online.
Good News from Small Business in the Time of COVID-19
From makers to caterers to campaigns, how our network of small business communities are spreading good things through the virus crisis.
Straight Talk about SBA Loans
Small Business Majority's Brian Pifer answers questions about COVID-19 funding and gives tips for helping small businesses manage their cash flow.
CO.STARTERS Launches New Initiative Focused on Small Business Recovery
A five-step Road to Recovery framework to help entrepreneurs adapt now and for the future
We Talked to 150 Entrepreneurs
Here's what we're learning from our community of entrepreneurs about how to survive the COVID-19 crisis.