Conway’s Conductor has announced its fall lineup of free programming for entrepreneurs. The 2026 lineup features subjects ranging from hiring and financial planning to modern marketing, artificial intelligence, strategic growth and scaling a business. It also includes Conductor’s 10-year anniversary celebration …
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For All Seasons: Baldwin Empire Services Invests in Keeping People Comfortable
by Doug Criseby Doug CriseFeature photo above: The Baldwin team. (Photo provided by Baldwin Empire Services) Bobby Baldwin was more than ready to forge his own path. “I worked for Tyson Foods for 10 years and learned industrial refrigeration,” Baldwin said. “I had roughly …
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Venture-creation Workshop Available to Founders Statewide
by AMP Staffby AMP StaffStartup accelerator gener8tor is launching gALPHA Arkansas, a free venture-creation workshop for Arkansas entrepreneurs. The global VC firm, based in Madison, Wisconsin, is working in partnership with the Arkansas Economic Development Commission. gALPHA Arkansas is a four-week program that provides …
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Food & Bev. Business ‘Cureate’ Offers Entrepreneurial Program in NW Arkansas
by AMP Staffby AMP StaffCureate, a woman-owned small business with a focus on empowering food and beverage entrepreneurs and building local supply chains, has partnered with FORGE, Inc. to grant ten food and beverage entrepreneurs in Northwest Arkansas the opportunity to participate in Cureate …
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Four Ways That Entrepreneurship Is Like Hitting a Major League Fastball
by David Moodyby David MoodyMajor league baseball and entrepreneurship: Two things you don’t usually think of as being comparable. However, working with many first- or second-time startup founders, I’ve begun to compare their success to hitting a baseball in the major leagues. In the …
Andrew Miles • Grox Industries University of Arkansas • 2017 by Kody Ford Andrew Miles, CEO of Grox Industries, cares about windows. Given that windows account for over 20 percent of all energy lost in our home and office buildings, finding …
In a new weekly series, Matthew A. Waller, Dean of the Sam M. Walton College of Business, examines the state of business in Arkansas. Catch him each week exclusively on Arkansas Money & Politics. In the early days of e-commerce, setting …
by Omar Kasim My friend Ryan and I were on our way down to the lake when we started talking about a fall semester marketing strategy for his scooter company, MopedU. He had mentioned that he wanted to get involved …
by Caleb Talley Mike Preston is the executive director of the Arkansas Economic Development Commission, the state agency tasked with creating economic opportunity for the state. The Florida native joined the AEDC in 2015, shortly after Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s election …
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Little Rock Tech Park Pushes Phase 2 Agenda in 2018
by Dwain Hebdaby Dwain HebdaThe Little Rock Tech Park is still a few months from its first anniversary, but plans are already moving full steam ahead to develop Phase 2 of the downtown co-working and startup development space. At the organization’s Dec. 13 board …