microenterprise

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Recent Examples of microenterprise The department said at least five grants of up to $5,000 each were issued through a microenterprise grant program. Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024 Notably, about 93,000 microenterprises registered on the portal have grown to become small enterprises, and about 10,000 small enterprises have become medium enterprises over the last two years. V. Anantha Nageswaran, Foreign Affairs, 17 Feb. 2023 To be eligible for the program, microenterprises must operate within Milpitas city limits, not exceed five employees (including W2 employees and sole proprietors) and operate as a for-profit enterprise. Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 21 Jan. 2024 The city has allocated $50,000 in Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds for MEAP in order to provide up to 25 Milpitas microenterprises each with $2,000 in grant funding. Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 21 Jan. 2024 This program is designed to provide economic assistance to microenterprises within Milpitas. Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 21 Jan. 2024 In explaining more than one council vote, Andrea Cardenas referenced her personal challenges before casting her vote on topics such as affordable housing, microenterprise home kitchen operations and the city’s first bridge shelter. Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Nov. 2023 The microenterprise structure, and the new payment model reflecting market impact, reinforce the fostering an entrepreneurial behavior. Bill Fischer, Forbes, 29 June 2022 The first phase, called the microenterprise phase, included everything mentioned before, so the company accomplished a major cultural (including both social and technical systems) transformation in only four years. Bill Fischer, Forbes, 29 June 2022
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Noun
  • In 1872, William Still’s The Underground Railroad became one of the first major histories of the enterprise.
    Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 10 Jan. 2025
  • From startups to large enterprises, companies rely on the cloud to deploy workloads, scale operations and speed up their time-to-market.
    Ravi Laudya, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Sonos plans on having a new CEO by February via the help of a third-party firm.
    Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 13 Jan. 2025
  • From Barbie to Brat Summer to Wicked and more, the firm has dominated since launching in 2023.
    Lyndsey Havens, Billboard, 13 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The legal system is broken, and businesses can't take a chance on getting caught up in this quicksand.
    Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
  • At an apparel level, the two do habitually converse—Coco Chanel launched her business making tennis dresses, and today’s athleisure has antecedents in Claire McCardell’s bodysuits and Y2K-era Prada Sport.
    Maya Singer, Vogue, 8 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • These high-quality, immersive games show the company’s passion for innovation. WMS Harry E. Williams founded WMS (Williams Manufacturing Company) in 1943.
    Matthew Gover, Miami Herald, 6 Jan. 2025
  • The company’s post suggests this will allow natural-language interactions for everyday tasks like switching channels or orchestrating other devices in your connected home but also outlines things that today’s TVs don’t touch.
    Rob Pegoraro, PCMAG, 6 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • His outré and uncompromising style quickly won the attention of the Hollywood and international movie-making establishment.
    Chris Morris, Variety, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Many of them exist within shopping centers or are stand-alone establishments.
    Samantha Husted, Charlotte Observer, 16 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • While that funding was prevalent throughout 2020 and 2021, when Pandion was founded and taken out of stealth mode, the tides changed in early 2022 when the Federal Reserve began hiking interest rates—thus increasing borrowing costs for businesses and making funding rounds riskier for banks.
    Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Despite slowly growing inventory in 2024 and the central bank's decision to cut its key interest rate—a move that should bring mortgages down—a chronic lack of supply has kept prices across the country up even as demand for houses and sales have dwindled.
    John Mac Ghlionn, Newsweek, 14 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Trump has also expressed opposition to a looming ban on TikTok after earlier having supported a law requiring its Chinese parent company to divest its U.S. operations over national security concerns.
    Jennifer Jett, NBC News, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Where would it be based? Lazarus sought to assuage some of those concerns in the Tuesday morning meeting.
    Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Greg and his father had built, largely by hand, a beautiful house with a 270-degree view of the San Francisco Bay, with a floor of hand-cut slate on which sat the baby grand piano.
    Peter Mehren, Newsweek, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Stories of residents choosing to defend their homes from the flames by themselves — such as the 66-year-old man who died trying to keep his house from being burned by the Eaton fire with a garden hose — have also garnered national media attention.
    Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 13 Jan. 2025

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“Microenterprise.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/microenterprise. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.

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