small.world Features told through the lens of Silver Lining’s global partners that explore the small business landscape, sharing powerful stories, policies, and innovations from across countries and cultures. Do you know someone who should be writing a small.world feature? Nominate them today! Small Businesses Don’t Have an Access Problem, They Have an Ecosystem Problem We have spent years building an infrastructure of support around small businesses: capital providers, business support organizations, accelerators, consultants, chambers, economic development agencies, procurement programs, mentorship networks, training programs, and countless initiatives designed to help small business owners start, stabilize, and growRead More → The Strategic Tempo: How the 7 Cycles of Life and Personal Seasons Shape Business Success In the modern enterprise ecosystem, leadership models remain obsessed with linear metrics: quarter-over-quarter expansion, continuous growth trajectories, and perpetual output. Yet across global economic systems, the most resilient small business owners intuitively understand a fundamental truth—growth is not linear; it is rhythmic. True strategic precision does not come from pushing harder or moving faster; it…Read More → The Global Small Business Economy is Running on a Performance Almost Nobody Can Afford to Keep Up Once you hear that another small business owner is struggling too, something loosens. You stop being wrong. You stop being a failure. You stop being so alone.Read More → What Small Business Leaders Have Been Building on This Past Year For the small.news Anniversary, we caught up with some of the small business leaders across the globe who have been changing the small business industry.Read More → The Man Building a Business to Last a Thousand Years Around the world, people are rethinking the true purpose of food. It is no longer just about filling plates or delighting taste buds, but about nourishing health, building community, fueling economies, and protecting the planet all at once.Read More → I Didn’t Set Out to Become a Small Business Owner In early 2022, I arrived in Barcelona carrying far more uncertainty than luggage. From the outside, it might have looked like I was chasing a European adventure… I wasn’t. I was coming out of one of the most uncertain periods of my professional life.Read More → We are Spending Hundreds of Billions on Entrepreneurship Support, We Don’t Actually Know if it Works We spend hundreds of billions of dollars a year, globally, on programs meant to support small businesses and the people who run them, and almost no one funding that work can tell you, with real evidence, whether it’s succeeding.Read More → From a Mother’s Recipe to Myanmar’s Modern Trade: How Royal Manizawta Reinvented a Family Balm for a New Generation In 2007, a mother in Yangon received a formulation from a traditional medicine doctor in Taiwan—not as a business plan, but as a remedy for her own daughters, who suffered from skin rashes and allergic reactions to conventional analgesic rubs.Read More → What South Africa’s Small Businesses Understand About Money that the Rest of Us Are Still Learning A manufacturing business owner in Gauteng once explained her business to us in a way no financial statement could. Her company supplied specialized components to larger industrial clients and had a healthy order book most of the year, but every month brought the same knot in her stomach.Read More → Resilience by Necessity: What South African Small Businesses Can Teach the World It’s 5:00 AM on a chilly South African morning. As coffee machines hum to life and learners and students prepare for school, before the first rays of the Highveld sun strike the roofs of buildings, there is a sweet, heavy scent of hot magwinya (vetkoek) hitting deep oil.Read More → A Small Corner of Goa, A Window to the World’s Small Businesses People often ask me what it’s like to live in Goa. I usually smile because the answer depends on what time of day you ask me. Before nine in the morning, it’s exactly what you’d imagine. The air is still. The coconut trees barely move. A scooter hums past my house, someone nearby is already…Read More → Small Businesses are the Silent Engine of Asia Before most cities wake up, millions of small business owners across Pakistan, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines, India, and Nepal are already at work.Read More → She Didn’t Want My Plan, She Wanted Her Mother At a fashion show I produced called Legacy Walk, I paired a young mentee with a mentor I believed was the right fit for her — someone whose interests and experience aligned with where I thought her path should go.Read More → Silver Lining Launched silv=rAI™ to be More Deeply Human, Small Business First Many AI tools that are “built for small business” are actually designed to replace the owner. Or replace staff. At Silver Lining, we built ours to protect the human in the loop.Read More → Do 90% of Startups Fail? Maybe, but That’s Not the Real Story When people mention that 90% of startups fail, they often do so with dramatic certainty. It can sound like a warning label on entrepreneurship: dangerous, irrational, even foolish.Read More → 1 2 3 Next Page