Craft Businesses
News and Articles About Craft Businesses
Take It From The Pros
How to Brand and Advertise Your Craft Beverage Startup
Set yourself apart from the craft crowd by determining exactly who you are and how you'll market your business.
Starting a Business
Starting Your Own Brewery? Here's Your Legal Primer.
Find out what legal hoops you'll need to jump through before starting a craft brewing business.
Take It From The Pros
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Everything I Know About Business I Learned By Selling on a Street Corner
A lifelong inventor found the secrets of success after failing to hock goods at a street fair.
IPOs
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Etsy Reportedly Eyeing a $300 Million IPO as Soon as This Quarter
The rumored IPO would be one of the largest for a New York-based tech company since 1999.
Detroit
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Entrepreneurs Are Making Detroit a Hot Spot for Craft Retail
The upside of the Motor City's epic struggle with abandonment is a vast supply of materials for high-end goods made by ambitious startups.
MOOC
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Craftsy, a Startup Synthesis of YouTube and Etsy, Cinches $50 Million in New Funding
The Denver-based company, which vends hundreds of video tutorials in various crafting fields, now counts $106 million in venture capital.
Driving Business - Driving Success
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To Grow, This Distillery Learned How to Tell Its State-of-the-Art Story
MBAs Across America helped one Butte, Montana distillery understand and educate its market to expand to online sales.
Kickstarter
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4 Kickstarter Campaigns You Won't Believe Actually Succeeded
Zack Danger Brown's ludicrous $72,000 potato salad isn't the weirdest and wackiest dud in the crowdfunding bunch to strike gold.
Wholesale Business
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Come August, Etsy Merchants Can Sell Directly to Retailers
Etsy Wholesale, which debuts in August, will enable makers to sell their creations directly to major retailers -- including Nordstrom and West Elm.
Coffee
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Will Blue Bottle Coffee Take On Starbucks, Or Become It?
The coffee company that positions itself as the anti-chain is poised for an ambitious expansion.
Business Moving Forward
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An Online Marketplace Brings Made-to-Order Goods to the Internet
On CustomMade.com, buyers post a photo or a description of what they want and craftspeople bid on the project.
Starting a Business
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Maker Faire and the Growth of Do-It-Yourself
There's a lot more to DIY than that wobbly table you built (and your spouse hates). A Maker Movement leader weighs in on the growth of the DIY community.
Starting a Business
How One Craft Brewery Is Tapping Social Media
Chicago's Finch's Beer replaces signage with social media marketing and finds frothy fame.
Starting a Business
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How a Craftsman Turned His Handiwork into a Cutting-Edge Business
He was definitely cut out for this business: Quintin Middleton shows off his chops with high-quality culinary cutware.
