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 John Moore/Getty Images
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
-
Small Business
A Business Friendliness Ranking Questions Business Friendliness Rankings
Thumbtack.com and the Kauffman Foundation say their survey does a better job than others because it relies on small business owners' responses -
Small Business
Even Realtors Have a Startup Accelerator
The trade group gets in on the fad of tech investing, but with a model that's different from your average TechStars imitator -
Small Business
CharityBets Makes March Madness a Fundraiser
CharityBets wants to convert Americans' urge to gamble on college basketball into donations to universities -
Small Business
Rising Health Care Costs, the Spanx Story, Embracing March Madness: March 25
A daily roundup of the most compelling stories about small business and entrepreneurship -
Small Business
Obamacare Uncertainty, Beating Back Patent Trolls, Cory Booker's Startup: March 22
A daily roundup of the most compelling stories about small business and entrepreneurship -
Small Business
'Lean In, Fall Over, Get Back Up:' Wendy Lea on Marissa Mayer and Sheryl Sandberg
A Silicon Valley veteran weighs in on the recent talk around two of the tech industry's power women -
Small Business
Crowdfunding Real Estate, Budget Bills' Small Business Impact, Chaos in Cyberspace: March 21
A daily roundup of the most compelling stories about small business and entrepreneurship -
Small Business
EBay Changing Fees, Questioning TOMS Shoes, Making It in America: March 20
A daily roundup of the most compelling stories about small business and entrepreneurship -
Small Business
Yellow Pages Bankruptcy, Lobbying Controversy, Tax Season Stress: March 19
A daily roundup of the most compelling stories about small business and entrepreneurship -
Small Business
'Smart Guns,' Paying Too Much for Financing, Solar Islands: March 18
A daily roundup of the most compelling stories about small business and entrepreneurship -
Small Business
IRS Crackdown, Crowdfunding 'Veronica Mars,' Paul Graham's Handshake Deal: March 15
A daily roundup of the most compelling stories about small business and entrepreneurship -
Small Business
Zuckerberg's $1 Billion Offer, Tax Mistakes to Avoid, Groupon's Interim Boss: March 14
A daily roundup of the most compelling stories about small business and entrepreneurship -
Small Business
Job Openings Rose, Lessons on China, Bonobos Shops That Don't Sell: March 13
A daily roundup of the most compelling stories about small business and entrepreneurship -
Advice
Hidden Bias: Why You Should Pitch After Lunch
A candid blog post from the “Harvard of entrepreneurship” shows how unexpected factors influence decisions -
Small Business
Hitching a Ride on a StartupBus Bound for Austin: Part III
Our intrepid correspondent's dispatches from inside a mobile hackathon
Read
-
Small Business
Better Economy Means Fewer Entrepreneurs
Americans launched businesses at pre-recession levels in 2012, according to a new Kauffman Foundation index -
Financing
What Happened to Small Businesses Walloped by Hurricane Sandy?
The SBA announced $19 million in grants for partners to assist businesses with planning, but thousands of owners are waiting on the agency's loans -
Financing
Crowdfunders Are Quietly Donating and Lending Billions
A new study says platforms such as Kickstarter, Kiva, and Prosper raised $2.7 billion in 2012, nearly twice as much as in 2011 -
Small Business
'Lean In, Fall Over, Get Back Up:' Wendy Lea on Marissa Mayer and Sheryl Sandberg
A Silicon Valley veteran weighs in on the recent talk around two of the tech industry's power women -
Advice
Hidden Bias: Why You Should Pitch After Lunch
A candid blog post from the “Harvard of entrepreneurship” shows how unexpected factors influence decisions -
Small Business
Even Realtors Have a Startup Accelerator
The trade group gets in on the fad of tech investing, but with a model that's different from your average TechStars imitator -
Small Business
Rising Health Care Costs, the Spanx Story, Embracing March Madness: March 25
A daily roundup of the most compelling stories about small business and entrepreneurship -
Advice
Taking Stock of Yelp's Ad Sales
As Yelp's IPO nears, the review site is counting on local businesses to buy pricey advertising. Gauging its effectiveness isn't easy -
Small Business
EBay Changing Fees, Questioning TOMS Shoes, Making It in America: March 20
A daily roundup of the most compelling stories about small business and entrepreneurship -
Small Business
CharityBets Makes March Madness a Fundraiser
CharityBets wants to convert Americans' urge to gamble on college basketball into donations to universities -
Small Business
Crowdfunding Real Estate, Budget Bills' Small Business Impact, Chaos in Cyberspace: March 21
A daily roundup of the most compelling stories about small business and entrepreneurship -
Financing
Did Main Street Get Shorted by Treasury's Small Business Lending Fund?
The bailout for community banks didn't come close to translating into the $300 billion in small business loans once projected -
Advice
Hiding Income? Look Out, Here Comes the 1099-K
What merchants need to know about a new form that requires payment processors to report transactions to the IRS -
Small Business
Yellow Pages Bankruptcy, Lobbying Controversy, Tax Season Stress: March 19
A daily roundup of the most compelling stories about small business and entrepreneurship -
Small Business
A Business Friendliness Ranking Questions Business Friendliness Rankings
Thumbtack.com and the Kauffman Foundation say their survey does a better job than others because it relies on small business owners' responses
Shared
-
Small Business
Better Economy Means Fewer Entrepreneurs
Americans launched businesses at pre-recession levels in 2012, according to a new Kauffman Foundation index -
Advice
Hidden Bias: Why You Should Pitch After Lunch
A candid blog post from the “Harvard of entrepreneurship” shows how unexpected factors influence decisions -
Financing
Crowdfunders Are Quietly Donating and Lending Billions
A new study says platforms such as Kickstarter, Kiva, and Prosper raised $2.7 billion in 2012, nearly twice as much as in 2011 -
Financing
What Happened to Small Businesses Walloped by Hurricane Sandy?
The SBA announced $19 million in grants for partners to assist businesses with planning, but thousands of owners are waiting on the agency's loans
Discussed
Feed
Most Popular
- Millions Watch Netflix Without Paying
- 'Saturday Night Live' Nails the Gun Control Debate
- Why the Fed Worries Inflation Is too Low
- The Glock Divorce Comes to America, Revealing New Details About the Gunmaker
- Sriracha Hot Sauce Catches Fire, Yet 'There's Only One Rooster'
- Yahoo's Mayer Alone at the Top as Chairman Resigns
- Howrey's Bankruptcy and Big Law Firms' Small Future
- 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
- IBM Brings 'Big Data' to Business School
- Howrey's Bankruptcy and Big Law Firms' Small Future
- 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