How are we going to develop the big businesses of this century if we don't nurture small businesses today?
On Tuesday morning, at an event promoting the city's efforts to nurture small businesses, Mr. Bloomberg appeared unusually eager to weigh in on the matter.
The startup scene is also growing in urban Africa, with initiatives including VC4Africa, PitchForLagos and StartUpGrind nurturing small businesses across the continent.
That deprives venture capitalists, who help start and nurture small companies, of one of the main ways of realizing a return on their investment.
Along with larger buyouts, Abraaj is focused on nurturing small and midsize businesses, in part to help increase the job pool for the young, unemployed population in the Middle East.
HONG KONG — A new Chinese stock exchange meant to nurture small and high-tech enterprises, modeled on the U.S.-based Nasdaq market, started trading Friday and all 28 listed companies soared in price.
But, while this is a triumph for taxi unions and a tragedy for passengers and Uber drivers, France has also started focusing on nurturing small, high-potential technology companies.
Still, you've got to acknowledge that our suburban appeal is potent: in recent years, we've been quite successful in nurturing small businesses in cutting-edge fields like information technology and biotechnology.
It would be about radically widening the base of the economy, nurturing small businesses again, building on the success of hi-tech green engineering, pharmaceuticals and design, and trying to escape the stranglehold of City banking on the country's politics, and even its imagination.
But when the woman was pregnant or nurturing small children, she was vulnerable.
