August 1, 2022 - Hartford Business Journal

Small Business

🔒Entrepreneurs, business owners must have an exit strategy

Entrepreneurs are investors, both in terms of time and money. But how good of an investor are they?When they get it right, the best venture capitalists and investment bankers will get returns in the 200% to 300% range or higher, often within five years. Since we don’t often get those outsized returns in our lives, […]

Health Care

🔒Amid industry labor woes, Pansy Homecare finds growth by paying workers more

As many homecare service companies struggle to retain employees due to low wages and job stresses, West...

Economy & Labor

🔒Restaurant industry’s worker shortage, other challenges raise fears of mass closures

The pandemic walloped Connecticut’s restaurant industry. More than two years later, customers have returned, but eateries continue...

Arts & Culture

🔒This startup ballet theater launched during the pandemic. Now it’s opening a new Farmington HQ amid growth efforts

As the New England Ballet Theatre (NEBT) prepares for its third season, the startup nonprofit arts organization...

Cannabis

🔒With numerous cannabis businesses eyeing Hartford, city could become an industry hub

After more than a decade of living in Texas, Hartford native Mark Christie is moving back to...

Economic Development

🔒As state pivots economic development strategy, focus shifts from corporate handouts to public-private partnerships

On the sweltering morning of July 13, Gov. Ned Lamont stood outside an abandoned and boarded-up apartment...

Politics & Policy

🔒Complete streets: Here’s how streetscapes, bike lanes and sidewalks can spur major economic development

Complete streets is a concept that economic development experts have talked about for decades, and it’s an...

Advertising, Media & Marketing

🔒Rebel with a cause: Growing digital marketing agency embraces change with new Cheshire HQ

Rebel Interactive Group has been challenging the status quo since 2013, but it took a global pandemic...

Banking & Finance

🔒Matthew Hummel was an All-American college basketball player. Now he’s looking to jump-start KeyBank’s CT growth

KeyBank was a relatively unknown player in Connecticut when it first entered the market in 2016 with...

Hospitality & Tourism

🔒Windsor brewpub taking shape on Day Hill Road

One of the most interesting ongoing developments at the Mark Greenberg-owned building at 1001 Day Hill Road...

Economic Development

🔒Entrepreneurs turn from safer investments, career options to pursue ambitious sports-focused mixed-use development in Windsor

Vincent DiCarlo shuttered his home-based marketing business three years ago, devoting his time and energy into building...

Economic Development

Hartford’s Pratt Street poised for restaurant and retail rebirth

Eight months ago, there were 10 vacant storefronts on Hartford’s Pratt Street, a block-long shopping corridor paved...

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