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SUBMARINE TECH: MIKEL Inc. President Kelly Mendell speaks with Dave Lambert, engineer and program manager, about the company’s Surface Ship component of its SANS Beacon underwater navigation aid system. The company supports the submarine community with technical and logistic expertise. / PBN PHOTO/KATE WHITNEY LUCEY

Risk-taking propels Mikel’s can-do CEO

Entrepreneurship 05/04/2018

WHEN IT COMES TO RUNNING A BUSINESS, failure is not an option for Kelly Mendell, president of MIKEL Inc. in Middletown. That’s according to Mark...

A SIGNIFICANT BOOST: Small businesses such as MIKEL, headed by President Kelly Mendell, right (with Dave Lambert, engineer and program manager), who was named Rhode Island’s Small Business Person of the Year by the U.S. Small Business Administration, employ more than half of all private-sector workers in the state. / PBN PHOTO/KATE WHITNEY LUCEY

Healthy small businesses mean a healthy R.I. economy

Economic Activity 05/04/2018

We are near the end of National Small Business Week, a celebration of those businesses that form an important, one might say essential, backbone...

More small-business firms, employees reported by latest SBA R.I. profile

Business Services 05/01/2018

PROVIDENCE - More than half, 52.7 percent, or 224,254 individuals, of the state's workforce was employed at 99,821 small businesses operating in the state...

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Five Questions With Linda McMahon

In Their Own Words 03/16/2018

Linda McMahon | Administrator, U.S. Small Business Administration 1. Why were you recently in Rhode Island? I what is called the “ignite tour.” It...

CENTREVILLE BANK recently provided $1.6 million to help Steve and Eliza Beringhause purchase the Red Dog Inn and Resort in Mansfield. From left, Steve Beringhause, holding Phantom; on the shorter slide, Conan, Bruno and Neeko; Eliza Beringhouse, holding Everest; Caesar, on the taller slide; and Sara Hiebner, vice president of commercial lending at Centreville Bank. / COURTESY CENTREVILLE BANK

Centreville Bank provides $1.6M for dog-grooming business

Financial Services 03/13/2018

WEST WARWICK – Centreville Bank recently provided $1.6 million in financing for a dog-grooming and daycare business in Mansfield. The West Warwick-based bank made the...

THE U.S. SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION is accepting applications for its 2018 Emerging Leaders Program.

SBA accepting applications for 2018 Emerging Leaders Program

Entrepreneurship 02/26/2018

PROVIDENCE - The U.S. Small Business Administration is accepting applications for its 2018 Emerging Leaders Program, the SBA announced Saturday. The executive-level, intensive education series...

SBA ADMINISTRATOR Linda McMahon and newly-appointed Region I Regional Administrator Wendell G. Davis. / COURTESY SBA RHODE ISLAND

Davis named SBA regional administrator

People 02/21/2018

PROVIDENCE - Wendell G. Davis has been named Region 1 regional administrator by the U.S. Small Business Administration, according to an announcement by the...

LINDA MCMAHON, administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration, visited the Rhode Island district office in February./ SBA RHODE ISLAND/ RYAN P. BRISSETTE

McMahon ventures to promote small businesses under Trump

Economy 02/08/2018

PROVIDENCE – Linda McMahon, administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration, says President Donald Trump chose her to lead the federal agency because he...

TEAM MEETING: From left, Brenton DeBoef, professor of chemistry at the University of Rhode Island, and Alcinous Pharmaceutical team members Nicholas DaSilva, CEO and Ph.D. student in the URI College of Pharmacy; Benjamin Barlock, chief technology officer and Ph.D. student in the URI College of Pharmacy; David Worthen, chief operations officer and URI assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences and the Department of Chemical Engineering; and Ken Rose, chief scientific officer and Ph.D. student in the URI College of Pharmacy, discuss Alcinous’ latest research project. / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Alcinous to use $50K Innovation Voucher to create new PARP inhibitor

Education 12/08/2017

Five weeks prior to celebrating its first year in business, Alcinous Pharmaceuticals received a $50,000 Innovation Voucher from R.I. Commerce Corp. The microcompany had been...