Entries by Business Executive

Fairbury VFW promotes small businesses, community engagement and veteran recognition with first indoor market

FAIRBURY, Neb. (News Channel Nebraska) – This weekend, the Fairbury Veterans of Foreign Wars/American Legion center opened its doors to host a new indoor market, bringing into one place more than a dozen craftspeople, vendors and small business owners from across eastern Nebraska. It’s a way for local vendors to get together in the winter […]

What lies under the bonnet of the new AI chatbot?

Getty Images Tumbling stock market values and wild claims have accompanied the release of a new AI chatbot by a small Chinese company. What makes it so different? The reason behind this tumult? The “large language model” (LLM) that powers the app has reasoning capabilities that are comparable to US models such as OpenAI’s o1, […]

The small business community can bring people together

Elliot Richardson This piece does not focus on our legislative priorities and objectives in 2025. It does not analyze and evaluate various policies. Other articles will highlight the work we are doing to level the playing field for small businesses, stabilize escalating property taxes, support entrepreneurs, enact meaningful licensing reforms, increase transparency on government contracts, […]

The DeepSeek Wake-Up Call – The Atlantic

An AI model from the Chinese start-up sent America’s tech industry into a full-on panic. Illustration by The Atlantic January 30, 2025, 1:13 PM ET This is Atlantic Intelligence, a newsletter in which our writers help you wrap your mind around artificial intelligence and a new machine age. Sign up here. Earlier this week, almost […]

Small Businesses to Congress: Advance the Main Street Tax Certainty Act

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Jan. 30, 2025) – The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), the nation’s leading small business advocacy organization, sent letters to Sen. Steve Daines (MT) and Rep. Lloyd Smucker (PA-11) in strong support of their legislation, the Main Street Tax Certainty Act. This legislation would make the 20% Small Business Deduction permanent and […]

Startup Advice Has A ‘Lowest Common Denominator’ Problem

An uncomfortable truth for startup founders is that the majority of their peers will fail. Real success stories, the household names that produce multibillion-dollar outcomes, are quite literally exceptional. As a consequence, it’s difficult to build a curriculum around these examples. Strategies that worked in one market, for one business model, may never again be […]

Why Maryland’s Small Business Ecosystem is Still Growing

According to a recent report, Maryland is experiencing strong small business growth. From 2022 to 2024, the state experienced an increase of nearly 1% in new business applications, with numerous tech companies, specifically, laying down their roots there.  While this might not seem like a lot, it represents a significant trend in an increasingly competitive […]