Archives: April 2010

Posted by: Greg Spielberg on April 30

Why This VC Is Grumpy

Posted by: Nick Leiber on April 29

A tangible print product is tough, because, unlike a blog post or a piece of software code, you can't just change it on the fly. This is a post by...

Wednesday Links

Posted by: John Tozzi on April 27

The White House is setting up two task forces to help steer more federal contracts to small businesses, especially those owned by veterans, Robert Brodsky reports in Government Executive. Business...

Monday Links: Missing Vowels

Posted by: John Tozzi on April 26

Sorry for the sparse posting lately. Tech startups, missing vowels, get ever stranger names, writes Patrick May of the San Jose Mercury News (h/t Entrepreneurship.org). Google adds local business listings...

Money for Nothing, Content for Free

Posted by: Nick Leiber on April 21

How do I produce a 250-page document that is professionally edited, packaged, and distributed, yet communicate the information consistent with the spirit of the blogosphere--open and free? This is a...

Google Relaunches Its Local Business Listing Service

Posted by: Nick Leiber on April 20

Nearly two million businesses in the U.S. promote themselves by using free listing pages on Google. Today the search giant is wrapping its old listing tool, Local Business Center, into...

Maryland Passes 'Benefit Corp.' Law for Social Entrepreneurs

Posted by: John Tozzi on April 13

Maryland today became the first state to legally create a new corporate form known as a "benefit corporation" that will let social entrepreneurs codify their missions in their corporate charters....

Credit Card Rates Rising for Small Business Cards

Posted by: John Tozzi on April 09

In this week's issue of Bloomberg BusinessWeek we report on how credit card reform left small businesses behind -- and how card issuers are reacting now that they play by...

Bank of America Extends CARD Act Protections to Small Biz

Posted by: John Tozzi on April 01

Bank of America will give small business credit card customers many of the same protections that consumers now enjoy under Washington's stricter regulations, including an agreement not to raise interest...