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In 2001, clients of an Atlanta web-design agency kept bringing Ben Chestnut and Dan Kurzius the same small problem. They needed an easier way to send marketing emails. The two men built a tool for...
Comfort Systems USA entered July 2026 with $14.06 billion of work under contract and still unfinished. A year earlier, the backlog was $8.12 billion. The company does not build AI models. It installs...
When Jordan Peele started Monkeypaw Productions in 2012, the mid-budget original movie was in bad shape. Studios had spent a decade running from anything that wasn’t already intellectual...
A $900,000 acquisition may require about $98,000 in buyer equity. The numbers become less comfortable once the seller’s work, ageing vehicles, and monthly loan payments enter the calculation. A...
A franchise has come into the market for $900,000. Same address for six years. Staff staying on. A seller with tax returns that match what actually showed up in the bank account. A lender looking at...
January 20, 2021 was cold and mostly empty in DC. The pandemic had everything locked down, but when Michelle Obama walked out in that plum Sergio Hudson suit with the wide belt, the internet broke...
Your first business does not have to begin with an empty shop, an untested location and several months of expenses before the first meaningful sale. It could begin with staff already working...
The next owner of a small American business may first hear about it from an accountant, a supplier or a commercial banker. By the time the company appears on a broker’s website, other prospective...
Consider a company with 80 employees, offices in three cities and several million dollars in annual sales. Its founder commands a large online audience, attracts media coverage and gives the gets...