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Not my policy

Executive Poll 10/05/2018

Do you believe that, overall, Rhode Island’s public policies facilitate the efforts of small businesses in the state? No: 81.3% Yes: 18.7% Are you confident that state...

LICENSE TO SELL: Adam Batchelder, right, owns food truck Smoke & Squeal BBQ. He serves Elena and Bob Given, of Mansfield, biscuits, pickled watermelon rind, and mac and cheese. Batchelder says he’ll welcome the chance to get a single statewide license next year. / PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

DBR streamlining regs to aid businesses

Focus 08/31/2018

If you regulate it, businesses will come … and tell you how to better manage the industry, which fines and processes are outdated, which...

Daniel A. Harper has been growing Siren Marine LLC into a must-have for boat owners for more than a decade. It is a way to monitor your boat when you are away from it and avoid major catastrophes from sinking one of your most significant investments. / PBN PHOTO/DAVE HANSEN

Create solutions that address real problems

Entrepreneurship 08/31/2018

Daniel A. Harper | Siren Marine LLC CEO We’ve all heard stories of startups that grow into giant global companies. Siren Marine is not a...

MUCH HAPPIER NOW: Smoke & Squeal BBQ owner Adam Batchelder is looking forward to the new year, when licensing requirements for food trucks will be simplified thanks to new regulations.   / PBN FILE PHOTO/ MICHAEL SALERNO

Good signs from Statehouse on business regulation in 2018

Editorial and Op-Ed 08/31/2018

Rhode Island has a well-deserved reputation for being a high-cost, over-regulated state. And in the last decade, a number of initiatives have been tried...

SUCCESS STORY: Lisa J. Raiola is the founder of Hope & Main, a Warren-based food-startup incubator that has worked with more than 350 businesses. Three of the 51 initial PBN Something New small businesses are either graduates or current members of Hope & Main.  / PBN FILE PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

PBN on WJAR-TV, Aug. 20, 2018

Entrepreneurship 08/20/2018

Opening a new business is not for the faint of heart. Every week, PBN Editor Mark S. Murphy appears on WJAR-TV NBC 10’s Coffee Break...

MORE THAN SURVIVING: Since its founding in August 2014, jewelry manufacturer Luca + Danni Inc. has grown to employ 48 people, including owner Fred Magnanimi and Marketing Manager Taylor Franco.  / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Startup survival is one key to R.I.’s future economic success

Editorial and Op-Ed 08/17/2018

Every week Providence Business News profiles a business that is less than 1 year old, an attempt to capture the energy that a growing...

THE U.S. SMALL BUSINESS Sentiment index rose 0.7 point to 107.9 in July, the highest since the record 108 reading in 1983, according to the National Federation of Independent Business. / BLOOMBERG NEWS FILE PHOTO/STEPHANIE KEITH

Are you feeling more optimistic about your business prospects today than...

Entrepreneurship 08/17/2018

The most recent survey of small-business owners by the National Federation of Independent Business indicated in July that optimism has almost reached an all-time...

U.S. small-business optimism climbs to second highest on record

Economic Activity 08/14/2018

NEW YORK - A gauge of optimism among United States small-business owners increased to the second highest on record as companies benefited from tax cuts...

Rhode Island ranks low on small-business friendliness survey

Economic Activity 08/14/2018

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island ranked No. 48 in the nation for small-business friendliness in a survey conducted by Thumbtack Inc. and released Tuesday. In its...