Feature Articles

Internships are Win-win

The advantages of internships are becoming increasingly obvious to businesses and to college students.

Your Business Grows Here

At farmers markets, businesses can launch new items or increase sales

This is a Tourist Spot?!

Businesses welcome visitors, but residents don’t always like to share their favorite haunts

Loving Liliha

There's new life in Liliha. Here's 8 steps to revitalize your neighborhood

Everyone Acts Small in Local Banking

Unlike the Mainland, even the big banks want to be "community banks" here

2010 Smallbiz Success Awards

We profile our six 2010 winners of the Hawaii Business SmallBiz Success Awards

Yogurt Wars

Hawaii's Yogurt Wars: What will it take to survive?

Permit Purgatory

We can't offer paradise, but here are ways to cut red tape and avoid permit hell.

Go Paperless

Hawaii companies – law firms, medical offices, accountants, architects – are systematically converting from paper files to electronic files. Here's how.

Franchising Can Win in a Downturn

L&L successfully franchises out in a down economy, and Blazin' Steaks begins the same.

Hidden Gems to Help You

Here are five programs that could help jump-start, grow and improve your small business.

Social Networks: You Snooze, You Lose

Learn these new tools and make them work for you.

Native Hawaiian Businesses

Hui Ku Maoli Ola's goal is to preserve, promote and explain Hawaiian culture.

Internet Transforms Home Sales, but Realtors Survive

The Internet is changing the real estate game. Here is what realtors need to do to compete.

MIlitary Contracts: Steady Revenue in Tough Times

Hawaii small businesses get big share of the billions in military spending here each year

Still Standing

Norm Winter speaks about Jelly's business survival - mixing old and new music, books and more.

A New Cash Crop

Some Hawaii farmers hope 'agtourism' will be their key to survival

2009 Smallbiz Success Awards

We profile our ten 2009 winners of the Hawaii Business SmallBiz Success Awards

Ergobaby Going Global

ERGObaby Carrier Inc., a Maui-based, family-run company that sells more than 100,000 ERGObaby carriers a year worldwide, began with just a simpe homemade baby carrier.

Striving in a Tough Economy

Indigé Design brings to Honolulu contemporary, Asian-inspired clothing and interior furnishings designed for Hawaii’s climate and lifestyle.

Brotherly Biz

Two brothers’ love of bowling and cooking feeds Aiea Bowl’s success.

Mochi Madness

How Keith Robbins' passion - and personality - turned mochi ice cream into a hot commodity

It's Good To Be A Geek

James Kerr became the original SuperGeek when he started a computer repair company from his modest two-bedroom home in Nuuanu.

2008 SmallBiz Success Awards

What do a 50-year-old sausage manufacturer in Kapolei, a guitar retailer in Honolulu and a diving specialist in Kona have in common? All are recipients of the 2008 SB Success Awards!

2007 SmallBiz Success Awards

We profile many high-achieving local small businesses, including Assaggio's and Kamaka Hawaii Ukuleles and more.


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