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- Obama Aims at Small Businesses
- The Obama administration is pouring money into a bailout aimed at small businesses, hoping to jump start job creation. Joel Brown reports from Washington.
- Videos 2009-03-16
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- Small businesses win smaller share of federal contracts in fiscal 2008
- Small businesses received a record $93.3 billion in federal prime contracts in fiscal 2008, but the government still fell short in the percentage of contracts awarded to them, according to new data from the Small Business Administration.Federal agencies awarded $10 billion more in prime contracts to small businesses in fiscal...
- News items 2009-08-21
- Lacking Citibank Survey Misses The Mark About Small Business Use of Social Media
- We promise to refrain from any cynicism about the survey results we receive. That said the surveys are sometimes misleading, looking for a public relations hit. Hope that isn't too cynical but the results of a Citibank survey about small business use of social media makes us...
- News items 2009-10-09
- SBA and Commerce will expand outreach to small and minority-owned firms
- President Obama has directed leaders of the Small Business Administration and Commerce Department to renew the push to meet contracting goals for minority-owned and small businesses.In a statement released through SBA, Obama said it is essential to provide those companies with the greatest possible opportunity to participate in federal contracting."Small...
- News items 2009-08-19
- Government breaks small-business goals with stimulus funds
- Small businesses have gotten 26 percent of the funds so far A major share of the money under the economic stimulus law has been given to small businesses, topping a contracting goal the government tries to reach each year. As of Oct. 2, the government, as whole, has spent 26 percent...
- News items 2009-10-06
- Small U.S. Firms Face Credit Squeeze as Crisis Drags
- By Nick CareySAN DIEGO (Reuters) - Small companies create more than half of America's jobs, but the entrepreneurs who drive this part of the economy continue to complain that access to credit two years into the recession remains scarce.Small business owners say banks remain extremely wary of risk and a...
- News items 2009-10-11
- Are small businesses chugging social media Kool-Aid?
- In my in-box last week: "Citibank Survey Reveals Small Businesses Not Joining Social Media Conversation."In my in-box on Thursday morning: "Survey: Nearly Half of Small Businesses Surveyed Have Profiles on Facebook and Twitter."Um, do these add up?Let's take a look. The first survey, conducted by Citibank and research firm GFK...
- News items 2009-10-19
- Automakers are stuck in small car quandary
- If the wildly successful Cash for Clunkers program proved anything, it's that with the right kind of financial incentive Americans will buy small, fuel-efficient cars. Armed with rebates of up to $4,500 from the federal government, consumers snapped up cars such as the Honda Civic and Ford Focus. They did...
- News items 2009-09-01
- Health Insurers, Small Firms In a Marriage of Convenience
- America’s Health Insurance Plans AHIP, the industry trade association, and the National Federation of Independent Business NFIB, one of two groups representing small firms, have not always been on the same page. While the pair did work together to kill the Clinton health plan, AHIP opposed the Bush Administration’s proposal...
- Blog posts 2009-03-23
- Small Mass. Firms Still Seeking Affordable Insurance
- When Massachusetts passed its landmark healthcare reform law in 2006, some observers expected that it would lead to a drop in employer-provided coverage, especially among small firms, because the legislated penalty for not providing insurance--$295 per worker per year-was much lower than the cost of coverage. But this has not...
- Blog posts 2009-09-13
- 5 Reasons for Thanking Your Small Biz CEO
- In this BNET Intercom guest post, Smartsheet chairman Brent Frei shows how the much-harried small business CEO is different from his Fortune 500 counterpart -- in all the best ways. With all the negative press around CEO pay, golden parachutes and extensive kickbacks for executive management, it...
- Blog posts 2008-11-26
- Could Obama's Stimulus Plan Benefit VCs at the Expense of Small Businesses?
- Not every small business advocate is on board with President-Elect Obama's stimulus plans. The benefits to small businesses are still unclear, which is one reason why a refund on business taxes has made its way into the plan, according to the Associated Press. The American Small Business...
- Blog posts 2009-01-07
- Government Failing Small Business?
- The U.S. Government awards a great deal of contracts each year worth a lot of money. One of its goals is to award twenty-five percent of these contracts to small businesses. Now that does not mean that they will be prime contractors but they may also team with...
- Blog posts 2009-08-26
- NASA Ames Research Center is seeking capabilities from large, small, small disadvantaged, HUBZone and women-owned small businesses. (Procurement Watch).
- NASA Ames Research Center is seeking capabilities from large, small, small disadvantaged, HUBZone and women-owned small businesses to determine the appropriate level of competition and/or small business subcontracting goals for the anticipated R& NASA Ames Research Center is seeking capabilities from large, small, small disadvantaged,...
- Research articles 2002-03-22
- NASA Glenn Research Center is seeking capabilities from large. small, small disadvantaged, HUEZone and women-owned small businesses. (Procurement Watch).
- NASA Glenn Research Center is seeking capabilities from large. small, small disadvantaged, HUEZone and women-owned small businesses to determine the appropriate level of competition and/or small business subcontracting goals for the anticipated Engin NASA Glenn Research Center is seeking capabilities from large. small, small disadvantaged,...
- Research articles 2002-03-22
- Small Business Owners Cautious with Marketing Money
- New studies released today suggest that small business owners tend to avoid paying for marketing.The Yellow Pages Association's "Small Business Marketing Poll" found that almost two-thirds of small business owners prefer to keep marketing in-house. When they do spend money on marketing, here is how success is measured: ...
- Blog posts 2008-12-16
- Small Business Alert: How to Survive If You Lose Credit
- Credit card companies and banks are cutting back drastically on loans and credit lines. Here's what to do if your cash flow gets squeezed. Don’t Just Accept Credit Changes as Final ...
- Articles 2009-06-11
- IPO "Crisis" Crushes Small Caps, Grant Thornton Contends
- The market for initial public offerings — particularly among small-caps — is mired in a crisis, Grant Thornton capital-markets consultants contend. The debacle has been caused largely by wrong-footed regulatory and technological moves, rather than the downturn in the economy, they say. "Over the last several years, the IPO market...
- News items 2009-10-07
- The Case For Foreign Small-Capitalization Stocks
- This article sees a bright future for international small companies as an investment opportunity. It dispels myths that have kept investors away from small foreign firms and discusses their beneficial features as an asset class. Financial professionals are well aware of the appreciation potential of small companies. Investors who recognized...
- White papers 2000-11-01
- Are Small Business Jobs 'Good' Jobs
- Small businesses dominate all private sector industries and, most importantly, they play significant role in rural and regional economies and communities. Small business is high on the Australian public policy agenda and more so now that small business employment growth is trending downwards. Recommendations to increase small business employment highlight...
- White papers 2003-06-01
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