The Piedmont Food & Agricultural Processing Center, a business incubator that will serve 22 counties, broke ground this week in Hillsborough.

Small business owners in the Triangle are invited to attend a free corporate legal clinic on Friday, October 22, 2010, sponsored by the Durham County Bar Association, North Carolina Lawyers for Entrepreneurs Assistance Project (NC LEAP) and the Small Business Center at Durham Technical Community College.

There is dire economic news out there &endash; 11 percent unemployment in North Carolina, drastic losses of state construction jobs, business credit is harder to come by.

Fortune Magazine this week issued its list of best metro areas in which to launch a business. Durham is 15th on that list for midsized areas.

According to a recent survey by Discover Financial Services Small Business Watch, 90 percent of people surveyed continue to rate the economy as fair to poor, unchanged from February. But a greater percentage of small business owners see economic conditions for their businesses improving, and fewer people see conditions getting worse. An excerpt from the [...]