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 Benedict Redgrove/Gallery Stock
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
-
Policy
Explaining Obamacare's Baffling Tax Breaks for Small Business
Small employers have been slow to take the law's tax credit for offering health coverage. Accountants blame complicated rules -
Social Media
Brogrammers Making Sex Jokes and Other Reasons Startups Need HR Departments
HR departments can be ponderous and annoying. They may also be the one thing that can save startups from themselves -
Policy
Small Employers Are Clueless About Obamacare
A majority of business owners don't grasp the basics of the law, a new survey suggests -
Privacy
From Mobile to PCs: The Fine Art of Privacy on the Web
Creating a privacy policy requires many considerations. Missteps can mean legal trouble and more -
Social Media
So Your Corporate Twitter Account's Been Hacked
What happens when your social media page has been hijacked -
Financing
Revenue-Based Financing: The Better You Do, the Quicker You Pay
Startups and small businesses, including tech companies, are resorting to revenue-based financing, whereby future performance determines how they pay the loans back -
Financing
Looking Beyond Banks for Financing
Entrepreneurs are turning to crowdfunding, peer-to-peer lending, microlending, and further creative ways to get startup capital -
Management
Your Résumé: Imaginary Friends as Job References
Three out of 10 companies report spotting fake references on résumés -
Science & Research
The Right Way to Destroy Sensitive Data
Before recycling electronics, companies have the tough task of removing all the sensitive information they contain -
Health Care
John Sculley: Seeing Steve Jobs Everywhere
The ex-Apple CEO mentors health-care entrepreneurs -
Management
How to Keep a Generator Running When You Lose Power
Getting backup generators to function properly during a disaster requires extensive planning, testing, and maintenance -
Management
The Importance of Disaster Plans
Having elaborate systems in place is crucial for keeping operations running -
Profiles
A Pet Food Store Fights to Survive Sandy
Hurricane Sandy destroyed small businesses across New York and New Jersey. In a corner of Staten Island, this one's still fighting to survive -
Starting a Business
The Number—and Variety—of Business Incubators Is on the Rise
Little known until recent years, they have become many startups' ticket to success -
Starting a Business
Accelerators Are No Longer Just for Tech Companies
Businesses in various sectors are pursuing partnerships with startups through accelerators such as Turner Broadcasting's Media Camp
Read
-
Advice
Marketing Secret: Think Form, not Just Function
Everything your company does sends a message to its customers, so it pays to invest in improving how products and services work and look -
Policy
Explaining Obamacare's Baffling Tax Breaks for Small Business
Small employers have been slow to take the law's tax credit for offering health coverage. Accountants blame complicated rules -
Policy
Small Employers Are Clueless About Obamacare
A majority of business owners don't grasp the basics of the law, a new survey suggests -
Smart Answers
Cutting Health-Care Costs for Aging Employees
Employees who don't participate in a company plan are still counted in its rating pool. To reduce costs, offer an attractive retirement plan -
Advice
When Founders Hire a Boss and Give Up Control
One seasoned attorney estimates 80 percent of founders of fast-growing companies eventually sell or step aside. Meet a handful who stayed on -
Management
The 'Heart Attack Grill' Experience
A man suffered cardiac arrest at a deliberately unhealthy Vegas restaurant. How did no one see this coming? -
Profiles
A Pet Food Store Fights to Survive Sandy
Hurricane Sandy destroyed small businesses across New York and New Jersey. In a corner of Staten Island, this one's still fighting to survive
Shared
-
Advice
Marketing Secret: Think Form, not Just Function
Everything your company does sends a message to its customers, so it pays to invest in improving how products and services work and look -
Policy
Small Employers Are Clueless About Obamacare
A majority of business owners don't grasp the basics of the law, a new survey suggests
Discussed
Feed
Most Popular
- If Yahoo Buys Tumblr, What Will It Do With All That Porn?
- Sony's Best Kept Secret: The $25 Miniature Computer
- The Truth About Sex at Work
- American Airlines Doesn’t Want Your Bags in the Cabin
- America's 50 Best Cities
- Why Can't McDonald's Offer Egg McMuffins All Day?
- Protesters Don't Scare Barbie, but Innovation Should
- Silicon Valley Drools Over This Hi-Tech Private Jet
- If Yahoo Buys Tumblr, What Will It Do With All That Porn?
- Taco Bell Adds 'Waffle Taco' in Battle for Breakfast Dollars
- CEOs Say Investing in Innovation Is Not Paying Off
- American Airlines Doesn’t Want Your Bags in the Cabin
- The Gay Retiree Utopia
- Spain's Santander, the City That Runs on Sensors
- America's 50 Best Cities
- Why the GOP Might Try to Impeach Obama Over Benghazi
- Philippines and Taiwan Fight—and Migrant Workers Suffer
- The Incredible Shrinking Budget Deficit
- The 5 Wackiest Things I Heard at the NRA Convention
- The Truth About Sex at Work
- The IRS Scandal: Tempest and the Tea Party
- If Yahoo Buys Tumblr, What Will It Do With All That Porn?
- The Gay Retiree Utopia
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