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StartUp New Orleans, a peer-to-peer initiative designed to attract startups and entrepreneurs to New Orleans, has reached its goal of attracting five startups by the end of the year. Just six months old, StartUp reached its goal two months ahead of schedule. With five companies committed and many more interested, the effort has been successful i  More...
An update on how the government may encourage bank-recipients of government capital to lend the money out, and how this will affect small businesses.  More...
Here are 5 basic sales principles the government could learn from and use to connect with the people during this tumultuous economic time.  More...
Slate BizBox--corporate brother of The Washington Post--on the Post's breaking news that, scandalously, nearly $6 billion in federal "small business" contracts were awarded to big corporations.  More...
September 29, 2008 was quite an eye opening day and we can all admit to being anxious for what will become of the "greatest country the world." When CNN commentators are saying that we are entering a time of economic turmoil worse than that of the Great Depression, even I am starting to second guess the ways of America. It is our duty to each  More...
One blogger, Rosalind Resnick on Entrepreneur.com, lays out an alternative bailout proposal. Instead of spending $700 billion on large conglomerates like AIG, the Fed should offer businesses and consumers loans at the 2% federal funds rate so homeowners could refinance at much lower rates and businesses could have immediate access to the cheap cap  More...
Both Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain have advanced a broad array of tax proposals that are complex, hard to understand, and on many points, difficult to compare. But the Tax Policy Center of the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution, two nonpartisan research organizations, recently published a study that provides the best  More...
The U.S. government has long supported a “big firm” economy with the idea that large companies are the primary drivers of innovation. But that’s a recipe for stunted growth. So say Kauffman Foundation executives Carl Schramm and Robert Litan in an article this month’s The American. The U.S. economy needs to grow at a 4% annual clip in the futu  More...
As of June 2008, if your business processes credit card payments, you are required to comply with new security standards to prevent fraud, hacking, and various other security vulnerabilities and threats, or risk losing this ability and being audited or fined. Any company or government agency that processes, stores, or transmits payment card da  More...
Small business advocates want to make sure the Environmental Protection Agency gets their input before they issue regulations limiting greenhouse gas emissions.  More...
It isn’t often that we see a real, tangible result from the assorted bureaucrats, technocrats, plutocrats and republicrats that scurry around the halls of government. That probably explains why the various branches of the U.S. government get such low confidence ratings while the military, which thrives on concrete results, is at the top of the rec  More...
Entrepreneurs are always griping about dealing with too much government regulation. Is there any way to ease the frustration? Yes--by calling on the very government giving you headaches in the first place. Don't believe it? Back in 1996, Congress passed the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Act, which aimed to ease small businesses' r  More...
Overly complex legal contracts are increasingly ubiquitous, annoying—and ineffective. They increase costs, decrease productivity, and annoy the hell out of your customers and contractors. But savvy business people can choose the alternate route this article lays out.  More...
When you hear a business person boast about not being organized and still being successful, chances are that they have a team behind them, including a spouse, who manages their calendar and their paperwork, ensuring that they sign the correct contracts on time and that they show up for the appropriate meetings. The team's organization leads to t  More...