June 22, 2011
When Jonathan Jackson started Dimagi, a software firm that makes open-source tools to improve health care in underserved communities and developing countries, he ...
May 18, 2011
Paula Fleming, a freelance copy editor in Minneapolis, spends $3,600 a year on bare-bones health insurance for herself and her husband. For the 2010 tax year, for the ...
April 29, 2011
Small business owners are reporting a bleaker view of their finances and the direction of the economy than they were at the start of the year, according to three ...
April 19, 2011
As the owner of Randol's, a seafood processing plant and restaurant in Lafayette, La., Frank Randol has weathered virtually every natural and man-made disaster to hit ...
January 24, 2011
(Updates the number of banks in the fourth paragraph.) During his last State of the Union, President Barack Obama trumpeted a new $30 billion fund designed to boost ...
July 16, 2010
The number of businesses owned by minorities increased faster than the number owned by whites, according to Census data released July 13. But minority companies' ...
July 13, 2010
I don't have much in common with my friend Rob. Rob (I'm changing his name here so he won't yell at me) owns a 60-employee roofing company near me in Oreland, Pa. I ...
May 5, 2010
Dan Thomsen spent a decade refurbishing and flipping houses in Los Angeles until the real estate market collapsed in 2008. With no remodeling work, the 45-year-old ...
April 22, 2010
President Obama wants to double American exports by 2015—and is targeting small businesses to help drive that growth. Small companies make up half of private ...
March 16, 2010
Automatic Data Processing's (ADP) sales of services to companies with 50 employees or fewer have increased since September, ADP Chief Executive Officer Gary Butler ...
March 4, 2010
While forecasters expect the Labor Dept. report due out Mar. 5 to show that the U.S. economy is still shedding jobs, data from payroll companies suggest that losses at...
December 18, 2009
Entrepreneurs are flocking to local food, starting businesses devoted to producing and delivering food within their communities. Just as consumers focus new attention ...
November 17, 2009
Senator Olympia Snowe (R-Me.) introduced a bill Nov. 16 to repeal the small business ARC loan program, a stimulus-package initiative she helped create. Too many ...
October 21, 2009
As part of its efforts to stimulate economic recovery, the Obama Administration announced on Oct. 21 a new set of initiatives to help spur lending to small businesses....
October 6, 2009
Unlike most small employers, Boeggeman, George & Corde, a New York law firm with offices in White Plains and Albany, pays full health insurance coverage for each of ...
September 4, 2009
Could health reform control costs for small businesses and expand choices for workers at the same time? Utah is about to find out. In response to a sharp drop in the ...
July 16, 2009
How do the health care reform proposals stack up for entrepreneurs? After months of discussion, Congress finally released detailed plans that will have broad ...
May 4, 2009
With Congress set to begin debating health-care reform in earnest next month, expect to see the trials of small companies once again take center stage. The 16.8 ...
October 3, 2008
As the House of Representatives was set to vote on the newly reconfigured economic bailout package (passed by the Senate on Oct. 1 and by the House on Oct. 3), small ...
May 23, 2008
As Chief Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration, Steven Preston (BusinessWeek SmallBiz, Summer, 2006) drew both admiration and ire from the small ...
November 14, 2007
With presidential primaries only months away, time is running out for candidates to sway small business owners. They are coveted voters, constituents who employ half ...
August 10, 2007
Last year the Social Security Administration sent 138,000 letters to employers notifying them that certain Social Security numbers their workers submitted on their W-2...
July 23, 2007
A criminal rents space in the same building as your company. Then he applies for corporate credit cards using your firm's name. The application passes a credit check ...
July 16, 2007
The U.S. Postal Service overhauled the way it calculates the amount that publishers must pay to mail periodicals in a change that took effect July 15. Postal officials...
July 11, 2007
When you run a small farm and raise dairy cows and other animals, the state agriculture inspectors can have a major impact on your business. They come around ...
