June 21, 2011
Consider two small business owners: One sells a product that medical researchers have shown is a major cause of health problems, from cancer to heart disease. The ...
June 21, 2011
After graduating from Harvard Law School in 1999, David Park founded discussion forum service Coolboard.com. It took more than a dozen software developers, product ...
June 7, 2011
Noelle Stary's two-year-old marketing consultancy will see revenues of nearly $100,000 this year, yet she's worried about the firm's survival. Stary works from a ...
May 27, 2011
In late March, Representative Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.) introduced a bill that would impose the same protections on business credit cards as those required for consumers ...
May 24, 2011
In 2002, after nearly 10 years of running a nonprofit to help poor farmers in India get the most out of their land, Amitabha Sadangi was frustrated. Government aid to ...
May 20, 2011
Last week, the Senate officially gave up efforts to pass the SBIR/STTR Reauthorization Act of 2011. Promoted as crucial for small business, the bill's primary goals ...
May 3, 2011
Entrepreneurs can use peer-to-peer lending sites such as Prosper and LendingClub to obtain loans for their businesses without worrying about breaking securities laws. ...
April 28, 2011
In 1992, when the U.S. Supreme Court heard the landmark interstate sales tax dispute of Quill Inc. vs. North Dakota, complying with the nation's 6,277 sales tax ...
April 27, 2011
In a speech last week to Facebook employees, President Obama discussed the role immigrant entrepreneurs play in U.S. economic competitiveness. "We want more Andy ...
April 18, 2011
Underreporting income has long plagued our tax system, with individuals failing to pay some $345 billion in 2001, the latest year analyzed by the Internal Revenue ...
April 5, 2011
In mid-March, the government panel to monitor the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) issued its final report, which argued that the program helped to steady ...
March 14, 2011
There has been little to be optimistic about on the immigration reform front, of late. The Dream Act, which would create a path to citizenship for children of illegal ...
March 4, 2011
In his 2012 budget, President Barack Obama proposed giving the Small Business Administration $985 million. That has set off bickering between the SBA's supporters, who...
February 24, 2011
Small businesses in the U.S. that produce any kind of manufactured goods or technology products are at a significant disadvantage these days. The Internet has made it ...
February 22, 2011
In his recent State of the Union address, President Barack Obama targeted the corporate tax system as something he'd like to reform. He suggested the approach ...
February 11, 2011
America believes it will always lead the world in innovation and entrepreneurship. It expects to keep coming up with Big Ideas—such as personal computers, iPods,...
February 8, 2011
Our federal policymakers need to recognize that they've gotten us into a bind when it comes to employment. When the economy tanked in 2008, they focused—rightly ...
February 1, 2011
America's small business owners have long endured a broken credit-card and debit-card processing market and its attendant ills. Visa (V), MasterCard (MA), and issuing ...
January 21, 2011
The media is full of anecdotal reports about small businesses that had bank loans and lines of credit before the Great Recession—and now have neither. While ...
January 11, 2011
With news that opponents of the new health-care law are actively trying to repeal the landmark legislation, small business owners have great reason to be concerned. ...
January 7, 2011
In March, Congress enacted the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), a 2,000-plus-page law designed to dramatically change how health insurance is ...
December 30, 2010
(This column has been corrected to identify the author as a former managing partner at SoftBank Capital.) Small businesses will play a pivotal role in creating jobs ...
December 22, 2010
Tax breaks, bailouts, and stimulus packages for big business are the most commonly prescribed remedies for economic growth. Policymakers believe that such companies as...
December 21, 2010
The Small Business Administration recently announced two new programs that will increase lending to businesses in disadvantaged areas and to those headed by minorities...
December 10, 2010
It probably won't surprise you to learn 61 percent of Americans say they would prefer self-employment to working for someone else, a higher share than in 25 European ...
