New York City SCORE Blog

The holiday season is an excellent opportunity to grow your business, but it's also one of the most competitive times of the year. Here's how to stand out.

Talking about money can be profoundly uncomfortable. For female entrepreneurs, however, the shadow of that monetary anxiety is a particularly expensive issue. 

While most businesses likely won't need to worry about breaches the size of Yahoo's or Equifax's, every single business should still be concerned with information security.

A great idea only becomes great when an equally brilliant plan is crafted around it, built, and then executed. Until then, your idea is worth about as much as the paper it’s written on.

'Bursting onto the scene' isn't exactly a long-term business strategy. Having a mentor can improve the chances of sustaining that burst and finding lasting success. 

Business leaders and mentees who foster two-way partnerships can positively contribute to each other’s professional development and their company’s overall success.

The characteristics of effective business leaders don’t really change. Andrew Carnegie outlined 31 of them in 1908, and they still apply today.

Here are five books written by and for female entrepreneurs that can shed some light on how to powerfully maneuver through life and business.

Making a splash can give you a leg up. But reputation is the unshakeable foundation of any successful business.

Great civilizations of antiquity, from Mesopotamia to Ancient Rome, all taught rhetoric, or persuasive speech. It remains one of the most compelling way to make a point and get others to see things as you do.