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Your Small Business Questions, Answered
Send us your questions on challenges you face in your business. Journalist Karen E. Klein will interview experts and distill their insights into answers.
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Cutting Census Funding Will Hurt Small Business
Eliminating the American Community Survey will leave small businesses without data they need. There's still time to tell Congress not to whack ACS -
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The Silver Lining to the Drop in Startups
Over the past three decades, the rate of new-business creation has declined dramatically—but so has the rate of business failures -
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Slowing Sales Show Small Business Needs Help
A new index of 200,000 small companies shows that sales are again slipping and policy makers should consider demands for help -
Management
Older Entrepreneurs Start Companies Too
A surprising number of company founders are over age 50. They have experience and contacts younger entrepreneurs may lack -
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World's Longest Invoice Unlikely to Be Paid
A website highlights how often freelance workers get stiffed—and what little practical recourse they have -
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Small Business Job Creation Is Stronger Than We Think
Small employers are creating jobs faster than big employers, and faster than they did in the last recovery -
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The Best Government Investments in Small Business?
Politicians often tout job-creation potential when pushing economic development policy for private companies. There's a better measure to gauge effectiveness -
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Want More Startups? Learn From Chile
The Chilean government's counterintuitive program that pays entrepreneurs $40,000 to bring their startups to the country is one development model worth replicating -
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Small Businesses Don't Choose Low-Tax States
Despite politicians' assertions, state tax regimes don't really influence where people launch startups or relocate existing small companies -
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Goldilocks and Small Business Credit
Entrepreneurs' access to credit hasn't improved since the recovery began in 2009. To warm the market, the Fed needs banks to loosen lending standards -
2012 campaign
No Taxes? No Way
Why Ron Paul's anti-tax policies wouldn't help small businesses -
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Is Peter Thiel Just Messing With Us?
The billionaire PayPal co-founder pays teenagers to leave college. Now he's teaching a startup class at Stanford -
Policy
Stop Pushing Universities to License More Inventions
Policymakers are throwing around incentives to encourage more commercialization. A better approach: Focus on improving quality -
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Don’t Bind Investment Incentives to Job Creation
Encouraging investors to favor employment over productivity when betting on private companies misallocates resources without helping the economy -
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Don’t Merge the Small Business Administration
Combining the federal agency with others means weakening the only government advocate for millions of small business owners
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