Starting a Business Has Gotten Harder This Year, Data Suggests – mySA

The economic environment for starting a small business is significantly less hospitable than it was a year ago, according to new data from NerdWallet’s Small-Business Opportunity Index, and the increasingly unfavorable conditions have some small-business experts advising would-be entrepreneurs to prepare for rougher-than-usual starts — or even to put their business plans on hold. The … Read more

For Bexar County Deputy James Kirkendoll, earning a master’s has been ‘the hardest thing I’ve ever done’ – UTSA

Next week, Kirkendoll will cross the stage with his master’s degree in criminology and criminal justice—proof that, as he put it, “nothing is impossible.” “If you put in the work, the results are going to be outstanding,” he said. The caveat: Be willing to give up some things, like sleep. Between 60-plus hours on the … Read more