by Duane Fernando | Covid-19
This post was originally published on March 27, 2020, and updated on March 1, 2021. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, businesses have to adapt to changing local, state and federal ordinances and as well potential closures due to COVID-19 exposure. While many of us...
by Venture Forward | Covid-19
Amber Khan-Robinson, the daughter of the first African American athletic shoe designer in the U.S., has always had entrepreneurship in her blood. So when she was looking for ways to keep her three children from staring at screens all day, she decided to help them...
by Venture Forward | Covid-19
As shelter-in-place orders wreaked havoc on businesses in cities and towns across the United States this summer, local leaders and their teams like Dan Henderson and the Gilbert Office of Economic Development had to make some fast decisions. As director of the Office...
by Venture Forward | Covid-19
Theresa Delaney started her events business, Creative Kind, as a way to bring people together for a few hours of DIY arts and crafts. She loved the in-person experience and never wanted to be an internet entrepreneur. But since the COVID-19 crisis forced her to close...
by Art Martori | Covid-19
As COVID-19 leaves us scrambling to piece together a new normal, in-person shopping is becoming less of a reliable source of revenue for merchants and service providers. Indeed, recent data from TechCrunch indicates that department store purchases are expected to...
by Ashley Grant | Covid-19
In March 2020, in what were the beginning stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, stay-at-home orders were enforced, and businesses scrambled to take their day-to-day operations online. For the first time, people who were used to going into the office...
