The Debrief: Keeping Black businesses in the black
As president of the Long Island African American Chamber of Commerce, and through several other professional and volunteer pursuits, Phil Andrews is an agent of hope. The past president…
U.S. Small Business Administration
Three decades later, LIHTI still lighting biomed’s fuse
By TOM MARINER // Early in 2012, Marc Alessi – an attorney who had served three terms in the New York State Assembly – followed his entrepreneurial brain and founded…
Dual verticals help additive-manufacturing ace add on
By GREGORY ZELLER // Two distinct additive-manufacturing solutions are keeping a 3D-printing pioneer in growth mode, despite the pandemic’s lingering drag. Chem3 LLC (dba ChemCubed) produces “jettable nanocomposites” that can be…
Innovation in the Age of Coronavirus
Vaccinations are ramping up and the pandemic is winding down, but COVID-19 continues to reshape the world around us. And myriad Long Island forces – large and small, corporate and…
New York Forward widens field for small-biz loans
By GREGORY ZELLER // Gut-punched small businesses on Long Island and across New York State just caught a break from the Empire State Development Corp. Albany’s main economic engine announced…
SBA pumps $1M into statewide small-biz exports
By GREGORY ZELLER // The U.S. Small Business Administration, via the Empire State Development Corp., is infusing nearly $1 million into statewide international-trade programs. The SBA announced this week that…
No. 327: On ‘Moby Dick,’ ‘Gangsta’s Paradise,’ shredded wheat and life on Mars
August already? How did THAT happen? We’re as dumfounded as you, dear reader, but here we are – Aug. 1, 2018, about halfway through the summer and this exciting…
Feds STEP up for smaller New York exporters
Empire State Development will use a federal grant to pump up Global NY, the international division of Albany’s main economic-development engine. The U.S. Small Business Administration has awarded ESD a…