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This midlife startup owner has pivoted twice

Julie Steller got creative — and fast — once the pandemic hit  |  Credit: courtesy of Julie Steller EDITOR'S NOTE: This article is part of America's Entrepreneurs , a Next Read More...

Category: Features

Author: Chris Farrell

Older Small Business Owners and Covid-19's Personal Finance Toll

IyaSokoya Karade, entrepreneur/founder of Athletic Arts Academy  This article is part of America's Entrepreneurs , a Next Avenue initiative made possible by the Richard M. Schulze Family Read More...

Category: Features

Author: Kerry Hannon

What Families in Conflict Can Learn from Baseball and Teachers

Either a private family business conflict ends up in the courts, or gets settled by alternative methods involving third-party neutrals – usually mediation and arbitration. These neutral parties can Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Michael Carrell and Louis Manchise

How This Adult Education Entrepreneur Did a 180 in the Pandemic

This article is part of America's Entrepreneurs , a Next Avenue initiative made possible by the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation and EIX . How many times have you heard people say, "I can't wait Read More...

Category: Features

Author: Steven Schragis

Listen to the Experts: How Family Firms are Surviving the Pandemic

  It has been almost a year since the Covid pandemic rocked the world. While we have seen some family businesses forced to close their doors forever, others have successfully pivoted their Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

Family Meetings Move Online

Family enterprises have been impacted in many ways by COVID-19, with many families placing their focus on the core business both in order to survive and to take advantage of this time to put forth Read More...

Category: Practice Insight

Author: Katelyn Husereau

Round 2 of Covid Relief: What Small Businesses Need to Know

The $325 billion second Covid relief bill -- the Economic Aid to Hard-Hit Small Businesses, Nonprofits, and Venues Act -- was signed into law on December 27, 2020. The Small Business Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: David Deeds

Family Businesses Must Plan for the Unthinkable

It's been almost 14 months since the first Covid case was reported and, in that year, a great deal has happened. Very few business owners, particularly in North America, took the potential for a Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Joseph Astrachan

Five Things Family Businesses are Reckoning With Now

  Family businesses everywhere are responding to Covid-19 in profound ways, balancing the need to preserve cherished family traditions and social capital against the mandate to control costs at Read More...

Category: Interviews

Authors: Mat Hughes and Alfredo De Massis

A Road Map for Resurgence

The end of the year is typically a time to for EIX and familybusiness.org to showcase their best-read articles from the past year in several broad themes: evaluating opportunities, financing, Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Kimberly Eddleston and Daniel Forbes