Times of Entrepreneurship Stories Cybersecurity for Small Businesses Booms, but Data are Scant Venture backed firms are springing up to sell their services to small businesses after two big hacks that involved smaller companies. And cyber insurance premiums are increasing, perhaps by more than 150% this year. But data about actual attacks are scant. Rates […]
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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Cybersecurity Best Practices for Small Businesses
There’s a new and booming market for cyber protection and cyber insurance services for small businesses. The market started to grow in the wake of some high-profile hacks that involved or targeted small and medium-sized companies. The numbers of actual attacks appear to be small, as Elizabeth MacBride reported recently. But still, a word to […]
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Weekly Newsletter: Crypto, opiods, Kim Kardashian and a new vision of business
Times of Entrepreneurship Stories More Americans Are Embracing Entrepreneurship During the pandemic, business starts surged. Now, those new founders will face long-term trends that make it hard to establish a growing business. Read the Story » VC Spotlight: LA-Based Slauson & Co The fund has a lofty mission and big-name investors. It’s looking beyond tech […]
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Editor’s Note: The Nexus of The Drug Crisis and Entrepreneurship
A note from our editor, Elizabeth MacBride: When I report on innovation and the economy in rural places – as I have in Appalachia, Colorado and California – I often hear about something I don’t write much about. The opiod crisis. Entrepreneurs in these communities are often explicitly motivated by the idea of building opportunity […]
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More Americans Are Embracing Entrepreneurship
Evidence continues to build that Americans are re-embracing the idea of entrepreneurship as a career, path to wealth and a way to rebuild communities. New data on young people’s attitudes toward entrepreneurship, voters’ support for the issue and a changing legislative landscape – entrepreneurship is one of the few issues that appears to have bipartisan […]
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VC Spotlight: Slauson & Co. Has a Lofty Mission and High-Profile Backers
Slauson & Co is one of the highest-profile of many recently formed firms, initiatives and funds – many started in the wake of George Floyd’s murder — that aim to diversify entrepreneurship. The premise of the venture capitalists working in this space is that diverse venture capitalists will fund more diverse founders, who in turn, […]
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Editor’s Note: How To End A Recession
A note from our editor, Elizabeth MacBride: Banks can do well in a recession as interest rates rise, and one key to injecting growth back into the economy is unlocking some of that capital broadly into the hands of entrepreneurs. I sat in on a Capitol Hill roundtable with Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D.-Minn.)about barriers facing […]
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Weekly Newsletter: Recession’s end, Google innovation budget cuts, women VCs & Iran
Times of Entrepreneurship Stories Why Today’s Small Businesses Can’t Get Bank Loans The number of U.S. institutions has shrunk from 14,400 to fewer than 5,000. Tech companies and CDFIs can’t fill the gap left by the death of community banks. Read the Story » VC Spotlight: New York-based Chloe Capital A women-led VC firm, Chloe […]
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Why Today’s Small Businesses Can’t Get Bank Loans
Fifty-three years ago, Booker T. Wilkins, a barber in Old Town Alexandria, was turned down twice for a loan at a community bank because he didn’t have collateral. He went back a final time. He told the banker: The loan wouldn’t be for as long as he was in business. “As long as I am living, […]
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VC Spotlight: Women-Led Chloe Capital Signed On Bank of America As An LP
Funding for woman isn’t budging despite all the attention paid to it. In 2021, companies founded solely by women garnered 2.4% of the total capital invested in venture-backed startups in the US, according to the Pitchbook. The data firm recently launched a dashboard to track the universe of early-stage investing among women. The issue may […]
