Applications are open now to former service members, their spouses or dependents for the free, seven-week course, which explores how to develop a business concept and to gauge its feasibility.

New Jersey City University is partnering with Hoboken's Mission 50 on the inaugural event, which will garner the winner $5,000 to launch their business idea.

Seeking to expand its presence in the Tri-State area, the company offers turnkey spaces to small and growing businesses.

The stated goal of the new entity is to boost professional startups, as well as a “cross-campus entrepreneurial mindset.”

A Wyckoff insurance agent and stay-at-home-mom couple who moonlight as inventors won a patent earlier this year for a shopping cart made especially for wine bottles: the Wine & Cheer Cart.

The Wayne-based institution says the program at its Cotsakos College of Business will provide education and research on sustainable and inclusive business development.

Winners were singled out by an independent judging panel of previous honorees, CEOs, investors and other regional business leaders.

Joy Lindsay and Nadirah Simmons weren’t surprised when they got calls from IFundWomen about a tentative program geared to support women entrepreneurs of color like them. They were, however, surprised by the $25,000 check they each received, and by the support and mentorship that followed from American Express and IFundWomen subsidiary IFundWomen of Color, who surprised 100 Black women nationwide with funds and 100 days of resources.