In honor of October’s National Women’s Small Business Month and the 30thAnniversary of groundbreaking legislation, H.R. 5050, also known as the Women’s Business Ownership Act of 1988, the National Association for the Self-Employed (NASE), the nation’s leading advocate and resource for the self-employed and micro-businesses, recognizes the powerful role women entrepreneurs play in helping our nation’s economy grow and prosper.  Read more...

First Flight Venture Center (First Flight), a Research Triangle Park-based science and technology incubator for North Carolina entrepreneurs, has been awarded a $125,000 grant by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Federal and State Technology (FAST) Partnership Program. First Flight is one of just 24 national recipient organizations recognized nationwide that provide support to science-focused entrepreneurs developing innovative and disruptive technologies. The FAST grant specifically recognized First Flight’s ability to expand its successful LiftOff and grant writing program to include under-represented entrepreneurial companies across North Carolina. Read more...

For business operations that rely on contracts and agreements that need to be completed and signed remotely, PaperlessForms.com has become a game changer. PaperlessForms Inc, a Michigan-based firm, recently introduced a low-cost tool that reduces the turnaround time on the critical forms and documents that drive many businesses. The tool allows entrepreneurs, managers and business owners to create, format and edit digital documents quickly and easily, without the need to upload PDFs and overlay form fields. Read more...