Batch Blog

So here's the deal: We're announcing our own recognition program called Slow Company. We're looking for companies that have been around for at least 10 years and...

Most Saturdays I write about the state and outlook of small businesses across America and nearly always I'm talking about the dire prospects a lot of us...

As I've written before, what small businesses really need right now are customers. The only thing saving small businesses will be demand, but unfortunately, this disease...

At Batch, our first four vendors ever were women (meaning the make up of our first product ever sold was 80% women-owned). And we continue to make more and more...

What's a city to do? If you bring the big event in, sometimes you've got to close down and hurt small businesses to make it...

It's the not the size of the coffee shop in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the coffee shop.  For the first...