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I have long supported local business. First in Austin, Texas as co-founder of the Austin Independent Business Alliance (AIBA) and then...

At the Local Business Institute, we don’t refer to businesses as the classic B to B (Business to Business) or B to C (Business to Consumer). We...

I have always sought to live a life of meaning that delivered fulfillment for me and contributions to others. Most often this has been focused...

As local businesses, we’ve learned resilience. In fact, we all probably have a PhD in resilience, at least those of us who survived—make that...

Just when we begin to emerge from pandemic life and try to recoup the lost vacations of the past couple of years, gas prices rise to skyrocket...

Do you have it? Can you find it? Does it exist? These were the questions I recently asked of local business owners through 20 discussions in...