Nurturing Home Producers to Run Retail Shops - New York Times

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Incubator for business Selma Jackson, left, manager of 4W Circle of Art and Enterprise in Brooklyn, with Cae Byng, whose company is J & L Handmade Soap.

Opening a small business is no trivial feat. 4W Circle of Art and Enterprise, a 15-year-old incubator for retail shops that describes its mission as "providing home-based African-American entrepreneurs, especially women, the opportunity to realize the dream of establishing their own retail stores" shows shows one way budding entrepreneurs can get a taste of running and operating a small business prior to actually opening in a single storefront. 4W Circle of Art and Enterprise is located on Fulton Street in Fort Greene.

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