Jeremy Quittner

Recent Articles by Jeremy Quittner

December 3, 2009

How Small Business Can Fight Internet Hackers

First, company e-mails started to take forever to arrive. Then Jose Cruz, network specialist for apparel maker Nanette Lepore, kept getting kicked off the company's ...

December 3, 2009

Lessons from Women and Minority Entrepreneurs: Advice from Renowned ...

Renowned business figures from historically marginalized groups offer advice on how to beat the odds

October 21, 2009

Obama's New Push to Help Small Business Get Loans

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....

August 7, 2009

For Entrepreneurs, This Bond May Beat a Loan

Few entrepreneurs consider bonds when they need major long-term financing. But by using a little-known set-aside in the public finance world called an industrial ...

August 7, 2009

How Cloud Computing Can Help Small Businesses

For Det Ansinn, server capacity is critical. His 10-person software company, BrickSimple, in Dublin, Pa., develops applications for mobile phones. In December the ...

August 7, 2009

Lending to Small Business: Banks Are Still Shy

For months, Matthew Barnes, owner of Cider Press Tile in Portland, Me., had been seeking a $50,000 loan to help fund his day-to-day operations. His $100,000 high-end ...

April 24, 2009

Cash Vanishes from Merchants' Accounts

In the midst of the worst economic contraction in decades, some small business owners are experiencing an additional—and brutal—cash squeeze, this time at the hands of...

April 3, 2009

Mills Vows to Reinvigorate the SBA

Editor's note: This is an updated version of the story. President Barack Obama's pick to head the Small Business Administration, Karen Gordon Mills, was approved on ...

February 12, 2009

Bankruptcy 101

Immunicon's glory days were in 2004. The company, which had developed a tumor screening technology for cancer patients, had landed $85 million in venture capital, then...

January 19, 2009

How Obama's SBA Chief May Change the Agency

President Barack Obama's Dream Team is packed with so many high-caliber picks, it might be easy to overlook Karen Gordon Mills, his choice to head up the Small ...