By Gigi Guyton, Women, Work, and Community As printed in the Bangor Daily News I had the sad task of telling an entrepreneur whom I wanted to nominate for a small business award to hold off until next year. We simply were not going to make the deadline. [...]
By Jenn Dobransky, Women, Work, and Community As printed in the Bangor Daily News Do what you love and do what you know is the starting point for any small business. The exercise of creating a solid mission or vision statement for your business starts with this loving and knowing. [...]
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 Eloise Vitelli As printed in the Bangor Daily News Entrepreneurs are known for their optimism and can-do attitudes. They see the possibilities and focus their energies on how to get to the goal line. Sometimes though, even the most positive, creative person can be dealt a blow that shakes [...]
Small business tips to sail smoothly through tax season By Jenn Dobransky, Women, Work and Community Featured in the Bangor Daily News, February 22, 2013 Taxes and record keeping can often be a source of confusion and anxiety for entrepreneurs. This confusion and anxiety is typically the result of a lack of knowledge that [...]
By Jenn Dobransky Special to the Bangor Daily News Twenty Dollars in your pocket? Check. Twenty new friends by your side? Check. Name of a previously secret location? Check. Boost to a downtown business and loads of fun? Priceless. And so goes the Cash Mob, a phenomenon that began last August in New York and [...]
Carol Ayoob, owner of The Whole Potato Café & Commons, developed her business plan in Women, Work, and Community’s twelve-week New Ventures Entrepreneurship Training last year. She secured financing from NMDC, as well as community investments from friends and supporters, and opened her doors on her dream this month in downtown Presque Isle. Photo: Kathy [...]
New Ventures class members took a break from business plan presentations Wednesday to pose with Microenterprise trainer Jean Dempster (front middle) above. Below Senator Tom Saviello stopped by to hear constituent Melissa Alleborn’s business plan presentation. Presentations continue next Wednesday. Congratulations, all!
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, [...]
After a varied career with many twists and turns, Michael Weymouth has found his true calling. He has taken the entrepreneurial leap and opened his own barbershop in downtown Oakland. This has proved to be professionally rewarding and has given him the flexibility he needs as a single father of a 6 year old daughter. [...]
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