May 17, 2021 EditionEdition

A financial coach and guest columnist suggests first steps to take and first considerations to make for a reader who's interested in becoming an entrepreneur.

The Mainebiz roundup of businesses and businesspeople that have been making changes in recent weeks. Check out our compilation of new hires, promotions, accomplishments and more.

After working with a variety of established companies, Konsin has co-founded a startup whose first "baby" is a high-tech, therapeutic bassinet that helps newborns breathe, relax and sleep.

When the pandemic hit, the Maine SBDC, part of the U.S. Small Business Administration, responded. Nearly 3,000 businesses in the state received free advising and other services, double the 2019 total.

Chambers of commerce, long a mainstay of small business, have had to change due to COVID-19. Some of the local and regional groups have became information channels. Others have tightened their budgets to ride out the pandemic.

The boom in the mobile eateries is far from fleeting, even as traditional dining establishments open back up and remote working keeps people out of downtown offices.

From Machias to Cape Elizabeth, six small businesses have been holding their own during the past year, the owners tell Mainebiz. Some are doing even better than that.

Several high-profile projects in Portland are getting higher, with girders going up at sites including the future East End home of Sun Life Financial. Rockland-based Penobscot Co. is busy in Falmouth and elsewhere.

In the past year, small businesses in Maine weathered quarantines, shutdowns, mandates of all kinds. Many dealt...