Small Business Confidence Plummets
Small business owners confidence in the economy soured significantly from July to August in the largest one-month decline since November 2009, according to a new survey.
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Small firms' job-growth role may be overstated
As President Obama lobbies the Senate to pass an aid package for small businesses, several economists are challenging the notion that such firms create the most private sector jobs. Employment - Small business - Private sector - United States Senate - United States
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Louis Rogers, Business Expansion Funding Corporation Discusses SBA 504 Loans
Charlotte - Louis Rogers, III, Business Development Officer for Business Expansion Funding Corporation, also known as BEFCOR (www.befcor.com) was a panelist for the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Mini Lenders Conference in Durham, N.C. where he shared lending options available through the SBA 504 Loan Program.
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SCORE: Dollars and cents of small business
I was counseling a small business owner recently and this owner said, "Dean, I wish I had known how much cash I really needed before starting my own business."
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Chabot: I could be committee head
Steve Chabot isn’t just looking to get back to Congress; he wants to be chairman of the House Small Business Committee.
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Louis Rogers, Business Expansion Funding Corporation Discusses SBA 504 Loans
CHARLOTTE/TRIANGLE Louis Rogers, III, Business Development Officer for Business Expansion Funding Corporation, also known as BEFCOR www.befcor.com was a panelist for the U.S. Small Business Administration SBA Mini Lenders Conference in Durham, N.C. where he shared lending options available through the SBA 504 Loan Program. Each year the SBAs N.C. District Office ...
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Harper opens door to funding sports arenas to woo NHL franchises
Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Thursday that if his government agrees to spend millions of dollars to help build an NHL hockey arena in Quebec City, it will be duty-bound to provide similar support for sporting facilities in the rest of the country.
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Congressmen hear from local business owners
GLOVERSVILLE - A plan for a 280-acre business park that would boost the economies of both Fulton and Montgomery counties gained the endorsement of the area's two congressmen, who sat down for a roundtable discussion with business leaders Wednesday...
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Tax credits help those who help themselves
The state of Iowa has a number of tax credits available to small businesses to help them get started and to help them succeed once they’re off the ground. Washington Economic Development (WEDG) director Ed Raber said that while a tax credit can help a business along, entrepreneurs should not think of it as a silver bullet.
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State Senate District 16
Name: John A. Messer Age: 40 Party Affiliation: Democrat Occupation: Lawyer and Small Business Owner Decision To Run: As a lawyer and small business owner, who has worked in government, I am sensitive to and understand the concerns and frustrations in this community. I originally moved to New York nearly 20 years ago, when selected as a government scholar, for the opportunities that New York ...
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Bloodhound budgets
Are world land speed records indulgent or essential?
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Bloodhound budgets: indulgence or serious research?
To break the world land speed record requires ambition, courage, persistence, ingenuity - and a great deal of money. Raising the funds required is one of the many challenges facing the British team behind the Bloodhound supersonic car project.
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'Anton in Show Business' may aid Oakland theater
With any luck, a theater may finally grow in downtown Oakland. Why the city hasn't been able to support a professional theater company has been one of the Bay Area's cultural anomalies ever since the long-struggling Oakland Ensemble Theatre folded in the... Theatre - Oakland California - San Francisco Bay Area - Downtown Oakland - United States
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What it takes to succeed in China
What does it take to build a successful business in China? If you summed it up on one sentence you would say the opportunity is around volume, rather than margin, said Andrew Grant of global consultant McKinsey & Co.
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Renewable energy needs more community power
( Economic & Social Research Council ) The renewable energy sector needs to use a wider range of business models in order to ensure a fairer distribution of power plants across the UK, according to research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. Renewable energy policies should encourage more community-owned projects to avoid a concentration of commercial power plants in poorer ...
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U.S. Chamber of Commerce launches ad attack on Boxer
The powerful business group spends millions on advertisements against the Democratic U.S. senator from California, saying she is 'hostile to the business community.' The nation's largest business organization launched a multimillion-dollar advertising attack in California on Wednesday night on U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer, part of a nationwide effort targeting vulnerable Democrats.
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UCLA's Anderson School aims to fund itself
Unreliable financing by the state hurts its ability to compete, the business program says. UCLA's Anderson School of Management wants to end its reliance on state funds under a controversial proposal that would be the first such shift to self-sufficiency in the cash-strapped UC system and could provide a model for other programs seeking freedom to raise tuition and faculty salaries.
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