The United States is in the midst of a surge of small business formation. In 2022, about 1.7 million people filed to start new businesses, according to the Economic Innovation Group’s analysis of U.S. Census Bureau. That’s up more than 28% over pre-pandemic levels in 2019. Including businesses not likely to employ others, the number […]
Elizabeth Macbride
A business journalist for 20 years, am the founder of Times of Entrepreneurship and the co-author of The New Builders.
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She Stepped Away From an ExxonMobil Career for a Venture to Save River Communities in Nigeria
Achenyo Idachaba-Obaro harvested the reedy stems of the water hyacinth from a dam near Ibadan with a particular mission in mind. With deceptively beautiful blue flowers, water hyacinths are a blight in the water channels of the West African country. Fast-growing, choking, they keep fishers from their traditional livelihoods. But Idachaba-Obaro, an entrepreneur, was noodling […]
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Two MIT Profs ID’d An Aging NY City As The Next Innovation Hub. Their Data Is Proving Right
Times of E’s series: Deep Dives into Secondary Cities was sponsored by Armory Square Ventures (ASV). ASV is a returns-oriented, mission-focused technology venture capital firm based primarily in the Finger Lakes region of New York State. It is an optimism engine for secondary cities and a community catalyst for regions outside Silicon Valley. _____________________________________________________________________________ ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Little […]
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Welcome to New Builders Dispatch!
We report on and advocate for the founders and innovators making a difference in their communities. We focus on telling the stories of underrepresented founders, through the written word and through events. And we’re broadening to cover the innovative companies and people in the up-and-coming smaller cities in the middle of the United States. If you […]
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A New Economic Era Comes Into Focus
Coming out of the pandemic, against the backdrop of a war in Europe and the prospect of climate change, the world felt terribly confusing. Anxiety, depression and violence are up; we can see around us the traumatic effect of pandemic isolation. The chaotic presidency of Donald Trump shook America’s faith in itself, and many people’s […]
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VC Spotlight: Living Cities Raising $100M Fund of Funds To Help Close Wealth Gap
If capital runs the world, then people of color need to have a bigger hand on the wheel. That’s the basic idea behind a new fund from Living Cities, one of the stalwart players in the long effort to close the racial income and wealth gaps in the United States. Those stats are clear: The […]
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Opportunities for Entrepreneurial Leaders: Miami, Pittsburgh, Virtual
GET Champions: Tech Leadership in Miami Forward-thinking Miami tech industry leaders are invited to apply for GET Champions Miami. The program will accept 20 participants in 2023 for its program of virtual training and curriculum, executive coaching and events over six months. Designed by GET Cities and powered by Radical Partners (a Miami-based social impact accelerator), the […]
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Editor’s Note: A Surprise Nuclear Buildup Is One Sign Of How Little We Know China
A note from our editor, Elizabeth MacBride I came back from the holiday break with tons of energy, and hope you did, too. I did a lot of yoga during the down time, I’m six days into dry January and I got a hard-earned “B” in a cyberoperations class I took at Johns Hopkins this […]
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A New Manufacturing Boom Could Come To Pittsburgh, But It’s Not Steel
Times of E’s series: Deep Dives into Secondary Cities was sponsored by Armory Square Ventures (ASV). ASV is a returns-oriented, mission-focused technology venture capital firm based primarily in the Finger Lakes region of New York State. It is an optimism engine for secondary cities and a community catalyst for regions outside Silicon Valley. You can read other articles […]
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Editor’s Note: Pittsburgh, Deaths of Despair and Restoring Hope
A note from our editor, Elizabeth MacBride: This week, over on Forbes, I wrote about the new boom in cybersecurity services for small business. Insurance rates are way up, even though there’s scant claims data. Next week, we’ll start publishing stories that grew out of my passion for writing about people who are building up […]
