(This column originally appeared in the Inquirer) According to an end-of-year report from research firm Pitchbook, venture capital investments globally rose 5.4% in 2024 to $386.5…
Gene MarksApril 1, 2025
(This column originally appeared in The Guardian) Of all the businesses started just 10 years ago, only one-third are still in existence. That’s according to data from the…
Gene MarksDecember 8, 2024
(This column originally appeared in The Hill) In November and ahead of Small Business Saturday, President Biden announced that, under his administration, “there were…
Gene MarksJanuary 9, 2024
(This column originally appeared in The Inquirer) There are approximately 12,000 Latino-owned businesses in Philadelphia and as many as 23,000 in the region. The…
Gene MarksNovember 9, 2023
Jared Polis, Governor of Colorado, and an entrepreneur in his own right, joins the show to discuss the ways his state is helping small businesses…
Gene MarksApril 6, 2022
(This article originally appeared in Forbes) Here are five things in technology that happened this past week and how they affect your business. Did you…
Gene MarksJanuary 23, 2022
(This article originally appeared in The Hill) 2020 and 2021 have been great years for startups. According to the Census Bureau, applications to form new…
Gene MarksSeptember 29, 2021
(This article originally appeared in The Guardian) Ben Cardin comes from a family of small business owners. His grandfather, who emigrated to the US from…
Gene MarksSeptember 5, 2021
(This article originally appeared on The Guardian) “See that place?” my father always used to say when we drove by the local cemetery. (more…)
Gene MarksAugust 22, 2021