Money

The Department of Energy is accepting applications right now for programs that support small manufacturers. Money is out there. I wanted to see how hard it actually is to find it, so I tried the new f

I want to flag this one quickly because it is worth a few minutes of your time. The Visa Foundation, yes, the credit card company, has a program called the U.S. Small Business Growth and Innovation Pr

The National Science Foundation has a $20 million pilot program designed to help small US businesses take promising technologies and turn them into commercial products. It’s open to service firms and

If you are running a business and not putting your everyday spending on a rewards credit card, you are leaving money on the table every single month. And according to a recent Forbes breakdown, 2026 i

You paid into this system. You might as well know how to get something back out of it.

There is a new insurance carrier called Corgi, and it is making a move that caught my attention — not because I think you should necessarily call them up tomorrow, but because of how they pulled it of

Banks have done a bad job integrating AI into the customer experience. I use Chase, and the tools they push just don’t line up with the day-to-day stuff a small operation actually runs into.

Manufacturers, the SBA just opened up $50 million through the Manufacturing Growth Fund Grant Program. Grants run from $25,000 to $500,000. Sounds helpful until you remember where the money started.

QuickBooks Desktop 2023 is shutting down on July 31. Payroll and bank feeds stop working right along with it. If you still run that version, you have about 57 days to sort out a replacement.