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July 8, 2026
Last month I got to moderate a roundtable here at our Main Street office with three of the sharpest branding minds: Molly Green of BrandCat and Onefold Creative , Brad Flowers of Bullhorn Creative , and Austin Dunbar of Durham . We got into naming, pricing, authenticity, and where AI actually fits in creative work, and Business Lexington tuned in and wrote it all up. Here's their full recap of the conversation. Read the Full Article →

By Chase Fairchild
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July 8, 2026
I've watched hundreds of businesses close their doors, and almost all of them did so for the same reason. Starting a business is easy. Keeping it alive is one of the hardest things you'll ever do. 62% of small businesses never make it to year five. Of the ones that do survive, only 2.5% are still standing at year ten. Those numbers are brutal, and most founders don't find out how brutal until they're already in trouble.

