This Is Small Business

When you’re building a business, it can be tempting to keep tweaking until everything feels perfect. But sometimes, the next step isn’t more polishing. It’s putting something real in front of people and learning from...

You don’t need to have it all figured out before you start. This latest season of This Is Small Business was full of founders who began with a problem they couldn’t ignore, made mistakes, changed direction, and learned...

What if the conversation you’re avoiding is the one your business needs most? A lot of founders start a business because they have an idea, a product, or a vision they believe in. But at some point, building the...

Your first business might not work out but it can show you how to build a better one. After years in hospitality and teaching cocktail classes to thousands of people, April Wachtel saw a gap: people wanted bar-quality...

<p>What would you give up to build something bigger than yourself?</p><p><br></p><p>After the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Reubens Amedee left his successful finance career to build a school on his grandfather’s land. But...

<p>What if your biggest competitive advantage is your story? </p><p><br></p><p>When Akruti Babaria couldn’t find tools to help her son connect with his Indian heritage, she turned that gap into a business. What started...

<p>What separates the businesses that get funded from the ones that don’t?</p><p><br></p><p>Angela Lee, a professor at Columbia Business School and founder of 37 Angels, has helped evaluate over 20,000 startups and...

<p>What happens when a simple craving turns into a nationally recognized brand?</p><p><br></p><p>For Alejandro Lopez, it started with brunch. Frustrated by inconsistent Bloody Marys at restaurants, he began...

<p>What happens when you take a centuries-old tradition and introduce it to a modern audience?</p><p><br></p><p>That’s the question Brenden Silverman set out to answer with Leilo, a wellness drink inspired by kava – a...

<p>What if design isn’t the finishing touch on your business but the foundation?</p><p><br></p><p>Sally Chung thinks most founders have it backwards. They obsess over logos, colors, and aesthetics, while skipping the...

<p>She didn’t mean to disrupt the gum industry. She just wanted gum that wasn’t made of plastic. </p><p><br></p><p>When Caron Proschan first found that out, she couldn’t ignore it. One piece of neon-blue gum after a...

<p>What if the biggest thing holding you back isn’t your idea… it’s the way you’ve been trained to think?</p><p><br></p><p>Ashish Bhatia is basically a therapist for entrepreneurs and in this episode of This Is Small...

<p>What do you do when you realize the “safe” path isn’t actually your dream?</p><p><br></p><p>Brandon Fuhrmann went to law school, passed the bar… and then walked away – because building Cooler Kitchen, a space-saving...

<p>What if the thing everyone avoids talking about is actually your best business idea?</p><p><br></p><p>When Katie Diasti realized how awkward and outdated period care still felt, she didn’t wait for someone else to...

<p>Running a business is more than strategy and numbers. It’s momentum, pressure, excitement, and responsibility–often all in the same day. It’s making decisions without perfect information, trusting your instincts, and...