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Built in a small business

Mastercard leaders reflect on the family businesses that shaped their views on leadership, entrepreneurship, resilience and community.

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Sizing up the moment

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Finding funding

With AI-powered matching and human coaching, Mona helps entrepreneurs secure funding, strengthen financial decisions and build more resilient local economies.

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Staying cyber-safe

Take Mastercard’s small business cybersecurity assessment quiz to identify risks, strengthen security practices and get practical tips to protect your business.

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Small biz resilience

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Access to credit

Open finance helps lenders use real-time data to improve small business underwriting, expand credit access and support financial inclusion.

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How to survive going viral: These small business owners share what they’ve learned

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What small businesses need now: Simplicity, AI and resilience

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Rhythm, ritual and restraint: Transporting Japan’s kaiseki to contemporary New York

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In Kenya’s Rift Valley, digital tools means less guesswork, more ground gained for farmers

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One mother, three hustles: How a Pakistani entrepreneur spun thread, worms and chickens into gold

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Bottling the creative process: A woman founder’s AI-powered approach to innovation

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Six generations in the sugarbush

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Decoding digital transformation for small businesses

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From risk to resilience: How AI is helping entrepreneurs unlock credit in Colombia

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A store of one’s own: Women athletes score a shopping nirvana in London

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The gift card that’s fueling Main Street

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Cashing out: How big consumer goods brands can be key to digitizing small businesses

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Mastercard unveils Small Business Navigator to empower U.S. entrepreneurs with smarter, safer growth

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How to get small businesses organized so they can focus on work, not the business of work

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Remote access: For rural entrepreneurs, it’s a struggle to click into the digital economy

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Five years in the baking: How a Czech business is thriving post-pandemic

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Griddle me this: Lessons from a waffle truck entrepreneur

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Welcome to the AI party: How entrepreneurs can use automation to bolster sales

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The 7 questions small business owners always ask me — and the 1 question I wish they would

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Too small to be ignored? Not anymore. Why shoring up cyber defenses for small businesses is crucial

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From cheesehead to creator: How this digital native built a marketing business out of his passion

Creator Tyler Webb speaks to Mastercard's Rustom Dastoor at the Mastercard Creator Studio desk.

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Alner's reusable packaging fights Indonesia’s plastic waste

Picture of three peoplle being supported by digital services with their small business in Africa.

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Access to capital — and childcare: How this program for Ukrainian women entrepreneurs helped them thrive in Poland

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How loans, networking and a motorbike ignited this Pakistani woman's entrepreneurial dreams

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Inside the mind of an entrepreneur

Michael Prevor, Babka Bailout

The pandemic devastated the restaurant industry, but it also gave rise to a new generation of food entrepreneurs harnessing the power of digitization and social media. Michal Prevor started Babka Bailout as a fundraiser but it soon bloomed into a full-time business.

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Karen Beeler, Life in Bloom

Karen Beeler transformed her passion for floristry into a thriving brick-and-mortar business, Life in Bloom. Embracing digitization, Karen's journey from a single room in her home during the pandemic to a bustling floral studio highlights the power of technology in expanding opportunities.

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Dan Morano, Annie's Tap House

In Great Falls, Montana, tap house owner Dan Morano explains the benefits of embracing digital: “We've always said, ‘We're not trying to put other bars out of business. We're trying to be a tap house, and the most important thing is that our audience understands who we are and that we are different. And data does that.”

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