Small Business and Entrepreneurs

If you’ve built a new house, rewired your basement, added an outdoor TV, or just a new porch light in recent...

Starting your business requires your great idea and a little help from your friends. That’s the best advice from owners of four young companies....

Actually, nothing is typical around Ron Barrett’s business. King Tut’s sarcophagus shares space with Wizard of Oz figurines and enormous dragon heads.  ...

Only two new banks have been started in Alabama since the financial crisis of 2008, and each has taken a different approach to...

Thomas Trissl wanted to do something fun after he sold his first flooring company in Florence. Three years ago, he partnered with Jason...

If you were to ask Maryam “Mimi” Head’s daughters why their family business, Ram Tool Construction Supply Co. Inc., in Birmingham, ...

Up the holler and right downtown, pioneers are reawakening a long-hidden art — dusting off recipes and practicing an alchemy that existed long...

The coworking movement that has gained momentum nationally for the past decade is now spreading across Alabama, with coworking spaces available in Mobile,...

We are a plugged-in society without enough plugs. We have reached the point where the most prized real estate inside any public building is...

Dan Starnes, owner of Starnes Publishing, which produces six thriving suburban monthly newspapers in the Birmingham area, shakes his head a...