Sign in with Facebook
Or use your Businessweek account
Or use your Businessweek account
Already a Bloomberg.com user?
Sign in with the same account.
Photograph by Damon Winter/The New York Times via Redux
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.
Recent
-
Advice
Alternatives to Running Your Business From Home
Finding an affordable place to get your startup off the ground doesn't have to mean beating the morning crowd to Starbucks -
Policy
Why Few Sandy Victims Are Tapping Government Loans
The SBA expected a flood of businesses affected by Hurricane Sandy to use its direct lending program. The response has been tepid -
Policy
To Improve Startup Odds, Say Yes to College
Plenty of research shows starting a business without a college education limits its chances of success. But the notion is gaining traction -
Financing
Staten Island Starts Over After Sandy
The hurricane’s floodwaters pummeled Staten Island’s southeastern shore, wiping out many homes and businesses -
Financing
Crowdfunding Is About to Get More Crowded
Industry pioneers that registered as broker-dealers, such as Microventures, brace for a new wave of competition -
Financing
Five Unanswered Questions About Crowdfunding
While the SEC must write rules to make the JOBS Act work, a slew of middlemen are eager to connect investors with businesses -
Financing
Sober Advice for Startups From Cisco's Co-Founder
Sandy Lerner recalls sexism at venture capital firms and says it remains a problem today -
Financing
TARP Verdict: Bailouts Failed to Help Small Business
A new analysis by economist Rebel Cole shows that banks that took federal bailouts cut their lending to small businesses more than non-TARP banks did -
Financing
There's an Incubator for Almost Every Business
Even startups in many niche industries can find help in incubators that range from Upstate New York's Ceramics Corridor Innovation Center to San Francisco's La Cocina -
Taxes
More Reasons Not to Fudge Business Expenses
Business owners who fudge expenses risk more than tax audits—weakening their balance sheet and undermining credibility with employees and investors -
Financing
A Big Nerd Trades His Corner Office for a Cubicle
A clever merger lets the former boss of Big Nerd Ranch spend more time coding and teaching. It's a story, he says, that should scare venture capitalists -
Financing
The SBA Preps for a Flood of Disaster Loans
Criticized for turning down too many businesses after Hurricane Katrina, the Small Business Administration's disaster loan program is trying to streamline itself -
Financing
Shedding Light on Unconventional Funding Paths
Even though angel investing has rebounded, plenty of entrepreneurs strike out. Meet three founders who got financing through lesser-known channels -
Financing
The Small Business Lending Fund's Tepid Results
Billions in government money meant to get banks to lend have translated into only modest gains for Main Street -
Policy
Why 'Makers' vs. 'Takers' Is the Wrong Conversation
A MacArthur "genius" fellow who grew up poor finds entrepreneurship is an important way people exit poverty
Read
Discussed
Feed
Most Popular
- Millions Watch Netflix Without Paying
- 'Saturday Night Live' Nails the Gun Control Debate
- The Glock Divorce Comes to America, Revealing New Details About the Gunmaker
- Why the Fed Worries Inflation Is too Low
- Howrey's Bankruptcy and Big Law Firms' Small Future
- Sriracha Hot Sauce Catches Fire, Yet 'There's Only One Rooster'
- Yahoo's Mayer Alone at the Top as Chairman Resigns
- J.C. Penney Apologizes in TV Spot
- Sriracha Hot Sauce Catches Fire, Yet 'There's Only One Rooster'
- Why the Fed Worries Inflation Is too Low
- Mexico: The Stranger Next Door
- Forget GDP. Data Crunchers Measure Happy Tweets for Key Economic Indicator
- Howrey's Bankruptcy and Big Law Firms' Small Future
- IBM Brings 'Big Data' to Business School
- Self-Destructing Media Trend Arrives on Twitter
- What Germany Can Teach the U.S. about Vocational Education
- Saturday Night Live Nails the Gun Control Debate
- Jerry Brown, California's Grownup Governor
- Why the Fed Worries Inflation Is Too Low
- An Ex-Wife Threatens Steve Wynn’s Casino Empire
- A DOJ Memo Shows Why the NRA Wins on Gun Control
- How Did the World's Rich Get That Way? Luck
- Economists Nail It: You Can Never Be Too Rich
A daily roundup of the most compelling stories about small business and entrepreneurship
Ads by Google
Links
©2013 Bloomberg L.P. All Rights Reserved. Made in NYC Ad Choices