Frequently asked

An independent online magazine publishing long-form interviews with founders, creatives and small business owners across the United States. It has been publishing since 2018 and is produced in Los Angeles, California by Michael Huston, with Steve Gladwell as editor.

It starts with us deciding whether the story is a fit, and that is the part not everyone gets past. If it is, we send you a set of written questions. You answer them in your own time. There is no call to schedule and no camera. Our editor edits for length and clarity, you read the finished piece, and once you are happy with it we publish.

No. We edit for length and clarity only. We do not rewrite answers into a house voice, and we do not add opinions you did not express. If an edit changes your meaning, tell us and we will put it back.

Yes, always. Nothing is published that you have not read. You can correct anything that misstates what you meant, and you can ask us not to publish at all.

Yes. Answer the ones you want to answer. Most interviews run to about a dozen questions and no one answers all of them.

Yes, permanently, at the same address. We do not take interviews down. A feature that quietly disappears is worth nothing to the person who sat for it.

Write to the editor and we will correct it on the original page: a new company name, a new role, a new web address, years later if need be. There is no time limit and no charge, and the link you already shared keeps working.

Yes. Share and quote your interview anywhere (your site, a pitch deck, a newsletter) and use our publication logo when you link to it. We ask only that quotations link back to the original page.

No. We approach founders whose work we have already read, and we are looking for a story with something real in it: a genuine turning point, a decision that cost something, a business that was built rather than bought. Not everyone we speak to ends up in the magazine. We would rather publish fewer interviews than fill the archive with pieces nobody would read twice.

Most interviews start with us approaching a founder, but you are welcome to reach out and we will consider you. Write to michael@businessstoriesmag.com, tell us what you are building and why now is an interesting moment for it, and include a link to your work. We read everything that comes in, and we will tell you either way.