Small Business

With Fortitude Ranch, the entrepreneur Drew Miller is betting on franchised timeshares for people who are worried about the end of the world.

By Alexander Nazaryan and Emily Najera

For many Black women, summertime calls for braids. Pricing for knotless braids, which are faster to braid, feel lighter and have gotten more popular, depends on the length and size of each braid and color blend, and whether hair used in the boho style is human or synthetic.

By Lola Fadulu and Naima Green

As chronic work stress climbs, entrepreneurs find opportunity in the burgeoning space of burnout coaching.

By Martha C. White

Twenty years after opening in Williamsburg, Catbird is expanding across America.

By Misty White Sidell

To help make the Olympic Games in Paris greener, Le Pavé, a manufacturing start-up, is making podiums and stadium seating out of recycled plastic.

By Liz Alderman

Funding for A.I. firms made up nearly half the $56 billion in U.S. start-up financing from April to June, according to PitchBook.

By Erin Griffith

The online marketplace is putting in place a new safety-oriented policy, banning the sale of “mature” products, including vintage Playboys and many sex toys.

By Jessica Testa

Tyrese Haspil, 25, was convicted of murdering his former boss, the entrepreneur Fahim Saleh, and dismembering his body in 2020.

By Maia Coleman

Artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT are finding widest use at big companies, but there is wide expectation that the impact will spread.

By Sydney Ember

The leading companies are co-opting Silicon Valley’s traditional cycle of disruption.

By Mark Lemley and Matt Wansley