Small Business

Who will take on your business? It’s a question many experienced entrepreneurs wrestle with to keep their business and family legacy alive. Here are a few ways to start.

Have you ever thought about starting your own business? Many dream of being their own boss, but the process can be daunting. Here is a list of actions to consider before you create a company.

For well over a century, Pioneer Linens — a longtime Wells Fargo customer — has evolved alongside its Palm Beach community. The secret to its success? A faithful family with a long legacy of caring about their customers.

More and more Black women have become entrepreneurs in recent years. Milestone Circles is on track to help thousands reach their business goals in a post-pandemic economy.

Bright storefronts. New equipment. New hires. These are a few ways small businesses felt the impact of Wells Fargo’s Open for Business Fund, a roughly $420 million effort that worked with nonprofits to keep small businesses strong during and after the pandemic.

Wells Fargo’s Open for Business Fund is helping thousands of small business owners navigate the pandemic and plan for the future.

A love of animals inspired Matt, Trevor, and Jeff Chandler to start Seven Peaks Fence and Barn, a fencing business that helps fellow animal lovers keep their livestock.

Many mothers who lost jobs or quit during the pandemic took the opportunity to turn their dream of running their own business into a reality. By 2023, these mom entrepreneurs were hitting their stride, according to a new study.

There were nearly 150,000 limited-service franchise establishments in the United States in 2017, and Wells Fargo has a dedicated team to help many of these future entrepreneurs start their business.

A single loan from Wells Fargo four decades ago helped a family build a thriving portfolio of 21 McDonald’s restaurants in South Los Angeles.

A new landscape for women-owned businesses has begun to appear over the past few years. They’re forming, increasing revenue, and employing more people faster than men-owned businesses, according to a Wells Fargo report. What’s changed?

The Los Angeles-based business started in 1985 and has grown into a nationally known brand of spices, marinades, and seasonings.

The Drake University Business Clinic is fostering a wide variety of new businesses from underrepresented entrepreneurs in Iowa with the help of a Wells Fargo grant.

Are you in business with the one you love? Learn tips for mixing personal and entrepreneurial pursuits and meet one couple who have gone into business together — and survived to tell the tale.

Veteran Loan Fund is putting $5 million from Wells Fargo to work for veteran small business owners.

Warrior Rising, with funding from Wells Fargo, offers veterans mentoring, education, networking, and more as they pursue a path to business ownership.

The owners of Roco 4x4 are proving it’s possible to not just survive, but thrive in a family business.

Hundreds of women entrepreneurs are building powerful peer networks as part of Wells Fargo’s relationship with the Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center.

After more than a full year, the Open for Business Fund enters its third phase: focusing on grants to nonprofits for sustaining small businesses like LA’s Los Taquero Mucho for the long term.

The new Connect to More^SM initiative links women business owners to mentoring, networks, and other support, encouraging them to invest in themselves.

Viewpoints: It is essential that we all draw on the lessons of the past year and see them as opportunities for advancement in the future, writes Susan Au Allen, national president and CEO of US Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce Education Foundation.

JC Lofton Tailors is continuing a family legacy that has been around for almost a century, with the help of a $10,000 grant from Wells Fargo through Local Initiatives Support Corporation.