16 stories tagged small-business, newest first.
15 points by terrybyte | 9 comments
A RackCrunch study scanning 7,040 directory-listed U.S. local-business websites to measure which HTTP security headers they send and misconfigure.
351 points by speckx | 274 comments
Personal blog post complaining about restaurants and businesses replacing their menus with ugly AI-generated redesigns, starting with a Filipino/Hawaiian restaurant.
491 points by neilfrndes | 441 comments
Anthropic announcement post introducing Claude for Small Business, an offering of its Claude AI assistant aimed at small businesses.
711 points by soheilpro | 405 comments
Apple Newsroom announcement of Apple Business, a platform combining device management, business email and calendar with custom domains, and local customer reach tools.
980 points by tomjuggler | 778 comments
A Circus Scientist blog post arguing that Google is no longer useful and asking where creators and small businesses should turn next.
462 points by sogen | 135 comments
Peter Askew's 2019 essay on Deep South Ventures about running an online business selling Vidalia onions.
560 points by wyclif | 247 comments
A Substack essay by Addison Del Mastro on visiting tiny passion-driven businesses in Kyoto, including a backyard coffee and jazz spot.
471 points by zdw | 299 comments
Tim Bray blog post about having a 25-year-old leather sofa's cushions replaced by a small local business, and how modern capitalism makes such repair hard.
329 points by IndoCanada | 257 comments
An X (Twitter) post about thousands of small businesses struggling due to the R&D expense amortization rule (Section 174); the post content did not load.
895 points by jnord | 172 comments
A blog post by Mathew Duggan recounting his experience running a door-to-door Mac repair service.
455 points by ljosa | 653 comments
New York Times article explaining why banks are abruptly closing individual and small-business customer accounts, leaving people unable to pay rent and bills.
546 points by danso | 454 comments
Minnesota Reformer article reporting that Minneapolis small business owners feel pressured to hire off-duty MPD officers for security, as the city weighs challenging a 1997 injunction.
521 points by taubek | 213 comments
Blog post by designer Nela Dunato, marking 10 years of self-employment, explaining why she won't grow her freelance design studio into an agency.
464 points by Jthink | 159 comments
A Tiny Empires Substack post outlining four mistakes to avoid when choosing markets and building a one-person business.
356 points by belter | 180 comments
LWN editor Jonathan Corbet describes finally replacing proprietary QuickBooks with free-software accounting after a search that began in 2007.
833 points by mjwhansen | 831 comments
CNBC article on US software companies facing large tax bills from the Section 174 change requiring R&D expenses to be amortized, threatening startup survival.