By Erica Quineaster As printed in the Bangor Daily News   Entrepreneurs – successful ones – learn to keep an eye on the proverbial bottom-line. Mission-driven entrepreneurs often have their sights on a dual — or triple — bottom line: they see a need and want to meet it. If you want to do good [...]

  By Erica Quin-Easter,  Special to the Bangor Daily News What is a cooperative? Cooperatives are jointly owned enterprises controlled by consumers, producers or workers who create a collaborative business that meets their common needs. Seven principles guide the cooperative movement: voluntary and open membership; democratic member control; member economic participation; autonomy and independence; education, [...]

(Aroostook County) Women, Work, and Community invites you to attend business plan presentations by graduating New Ventures entrepreneurs on Monday, December 3 from 10:00 AM to 12:30 PM in Room 125 at the Houlton Higher Education Center. New Ventures is a comprehensive twelve-week course in business planning that guides new business owners and expanding entrepreneurs [...]

  From entrepreneur to manager: managing for growth By Erica Quin-Easter, Special to the BDN You started your own business to be your own boss. You’re sick of managing other people’s problems. But unless you can clone yourself or completely automate your production, you need people to grow your business. So what does an entrepreneur [...]

      Microbusiness: making one job at a time By Erica Quin-Easter, Special to the BDN When we talk about job creation, we often celebrate the next big employer arriving in our area. Tax incentives reward big business that bring big numbers. Even “small business” as defined by the SBA includes businesses of one, [...]