Batch Blog

This year has tested my other chief asset as an entrepreneur: optimism. It's hard to hope now. I think next year will be better for everyone...

Most Saturdays I write about the state and outlook of small businesses across America and nearly always I'm talking about the dire prospects a lot of us...

As I've written before, what small businesses really need right now are customers. The only thing saving small businesses will be demand, but unfortunately, this disease...

What's it like to focus on just one part of the chicken? And why would anyone do that? Turns out, focus gets results. That's how...

At Batch, our first four vendors ever were women (meaning the make up of our first product ever sold was 80% women-owned). And we continue to make more and more...

This year was supposed to be better than ever, but then COVID-19 happened. But that didn't stop Eric Rion and the team at Willa's Shortbread. ...

What's a city to do? If you bring the big event in, sometimes you've got to close down and hurt small businesses to make it...

He just wanted to make some tasty brittle for himself to snack on year-round. And now? He's sold thousands of boxes to hotels and retailers...

It's the not the size of the coffee shop in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the coffee shop.  For the first...