Opportunities for Women and Minorities

Small business is the portal through which many people enter the economic mainstream. Business ownership allows individuals, including women and minorities, to achieve financial success, as well as pride in their accomplishments.

While the majority of small businesses are still owned by white males, the past two decades have seen a substantial increase in the number of businesses owned by women and minorities.

AISBX - A stock exchange to trade shares of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and startups

The AISBX is a new securities trading licensed platform under the supervision of the AIFC. The objective is to support SMEs to gain more access to international capital market funding resources and complete the capital funding ecosystem.

AISBX - A stock exchange to trade shares of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and startups

The Importance of Small Business

Small business constitutes a major force in the global and local economy

The Importance of Small Business

Job Creation

The majority of all workers first entered the business world working for small businesses.

Job Creation

Innovation

Given the financial resources available to large businesses, you’d expect them to introduce virtually all the new products that hit the market. According to the U.S Small business Administration (SBA), small companies develop more patents per employee than do larger companies.

Innovation

What Small Businesses Do for Big Businesses

Small firms complement large firms in a number of ways. They supply many of the components needed by big companies. For example, the U.S. automakers depend on more than 1,700 suppliers to provide them with the parts needed to make their cars.

What Small Businesses Do for Big Businesses

Funding and expanding small businesses

Using finance to aid growth can be smart and potentially explosive, and there are many ways to grow a small business. Funding it is a big part of the puzzle and it can help any promising company go from zero to 100 in a very short time.

Funding and expanding small businesses

How Entrepreneurs Went from Garage to Fortune 500

If you are starting a business in your garage and you hear a few people laughing, remember these five entrepreneurs who started in a garage and moved on to the Fortune 500:

How Entrepreneurs Went from Garage to Fortune 500

Does your mission statement define why your company exists?

A mission statement can be a powerful tool to help ensure your company remains consistently excellent and focused. It is your "why" - it's why you exist. Your strategy. Your core. Your vision. Your identity. Your culture. And it can steer you toward success.

Does your mission statement define why your company exists?

7 Massive Companies Started in Tiny Unexpected Spaces

Are you working out of your garage, in your bedroom, a motel room, or a friends space that they aren’t using on the weekends? Listen, it happens. We all have to start somewhere – the big thing is that you started. So many people have had ideas for companies and just sat on them because taking that initial leap is too risky – but you did. And you’re in good company.

7 Massive Companies Started in Tiny Unexpected Spaces

Trillion and billion-dollar-companies started in garage (or why we belive is small businesses)

The heroic story of going from somebody’s garage to being worth billions has got to be one of the most compelling tales within entrepreneur and startup folklore.

Trillion and billion-dollar-companies started in garage (or why we belive is small businesses)