By Cyndia Zwahlen
It's too quiet in the back shop at Superior Sheet Metal & Duct.
By Karen E. Klein
Dear Karen: How do I get customers for my new security business?
By Cyndia Zwahlen
At Royal Staffing Services Inc., an employment agency in Westlake Village, more requests are coming in for temporary workers. And the agency...
By Karen E. Klein
Dear Karen: Do I need a license to operate as a promissory note finder in California?
By Sharon Bernstein, Los Angeles Times
More than $360 million in small-business tax credits meant to spur hiring in California has been left on the table, raising concerns that...
By Cyndia Zwahlen, Los Angeles Times
Today is National Clean Off Your Desk Day. No joke.
By Karen E. Klein
Dear Karen: I recently graduated from USC, where I started the first chapter of a microfinance organization on campus. Are there...
By Sharon Bernstein, Los Angeles Times
A congressional bill aimed at eliminating a tax rule that many small businesses complained was unfair to them has been introduced by Rep....
By Karen E. Klein
Dear Karen: I want to make more overseas sales in 2011. Do I need a foreign distributor?
By Cyndia Zwahlen
After three years of trying to make a success of his small Cerritos company that manufactured corrugated boxes, Ken Bowers was in deep...
By Sharon Bernstein, Los Angeles Times
Optimism at the nation's tiniest businesses appears to have diminished in December as more owners faced cash-flow problems and planned to...
By Cyndia Zwahlen
College students who want to start a company while still in school are getting a jump on the process by competing in contests now held by...
By Karen E. Klein
Dear Karen: Is the tax credit for hiring formerly unemployed people going to stay in effect for 2011?
By Noam N. Levey, Los Angeles Times
Major insurers around the country are reporting that a growing number of small businesses are signing up to give their workers health...
By Cyndia Zwahlen
Connie Pentek's company might be saved by a voodoo doll.
By Karen E. Klein
Dear Karen: I'm not good at negotiating contracts. Do you have any advice?
By Marc Lifsher, Los Angeles Times
The job: Advocating in Sacramento for small companies. Hauge is president of Small Business California, a San Francisco...
By Nathan Olivarez-Giles
The coffee beans roasted, ground, packaged and shipped out of the F. GaviƱa & Sons Inc. factory in Vernon are as diverse as the...
By Nathan Olivarez-Giles
On the third Sunday of each month, a dozen or so people pedal out of Highland Park atop steel-frame bikes straight out of the Chinese...