The Obama administration has tried to reduce appropriations for Score and the small-business development centers for several years, but Congress has blocked those efforts.
In a post for our colleagues at Economix on the divide between small and big — and local and global — businesses, Nancy Folbre, an economics professor, raises a number of issues important to You’re The Boss readers.
Is it possible to "shame" people who research products with local retailers and then buy online?
Whether an owner supports the law is not necessarily determined by how onerous it will be. "We don't have to be told to do it," said one owner.
To encourage banks to lend, the agency is cutting fees and streamlining programs. But will it be enough?
Why is the Small Business Administration asking General Electric to participate in small-business discussions?
The moves are the latest in a series of steps by taken by both Congress and the administration to expand the S.B.A.'s reach by making more businesses eligible for the agency's programs.
The sequester would scale back programs at the S.B.A. According to the administration, loan guarantees would be reduced by $902 million. And the agency told the Senate Appropriations Committee that cuts to its counseling programs would force the agency's partners to turn away at least 33,000 business owners seeking assistance.
Karen Mills , administrator of the Small Business Administration , announced her resignation on Monday. Ms. Mills became increasingly visible as a messenger for the Obama administration, which has been eager to present itself as relentlessly pursuing an entrepreneurial agenda. She helped lead the administration’s Startup America program, which pairs government initiatives with private-sector stars in an effort to foster high-growth entrepreneurship. In January 2012, President Obama elevated the position of S.B.A. administrator to his cabinet.
A spokesman for the House Small Business Committee, which created Small Business Reg Watch, said the panel had no political purpose in mind for the Web site.
Relatively few businesses that can take the home-office deduction have been doing so. But that could change.
The question hanging over the program is whether it will attract enough interest from other venture capitalists and their investors to be fully subscribed.
Jed Horovitz of Internet Video Archive says that if a business is deeply affected by a tax rate change of a few percent, "it has other, more pressing problems!"
Section 179 expensing lives! Advocates for small businesses had feared that legislators might overlook their interests in the high-pressure 'fiscal cliff' negotiations.
A delay by the Securities and Exchange Commission has frustrated backers of a provision that exempts small companies from having to register before they can sell stock to the public.
The delay has frustrated backers of a provision of the Jobs Act that exempts small companies from having to register with the S.E.C. before they can sell stock to the public.
Much depends on how the rules are written, but if the company needs to raise more capital, it probably won't use its own platform.
Here's the thing to keep in mind about the National Federation of Independent Business's measure of despair: the survey is not a random sample of small-business owners.
While most of the discussion about taxes is focused on the expiring Bush-era tax cuts, a host of other deductions and credits that directly affect small businesses are on the line - and on the table.
Jim Koch, founder of the Boston Beer Company, and his employees have teamed up with a microlender to hold “speed coaching” sessions for fledgling food, beverage and hospitality businesses.
In recent years, big corporations have used their size to rewrite the rules for paying the small businesses that supply them. In many cases, terms have gone from 30 days to 90 days.
