Category Archives: Business Trends
How to Get Your Business Startup Crowdfunding Ready
When President Obama signed in to law the Jumpstart Our Startups, or JOBS Act as it is better known, business startups all over the country become instantly excited. Finally, there would be a new funding source that allowed new businesses to find the funding they needed without having to rely on banks or venture capital [...]
Recent Increase in Seed Money Reveals Funding Opportunities Abound for New Companies
People start new companies to pursue passions that implement their personal brand upon ideas. A concept doesn’t have to become a global phenomenon to achieve considerable success. But many businesses do have potential wide appeal. Even a company that’s not destined to become a household name might have a product that sells to a broad [...]
Recent Kauffman Survey Shows Mixed Results
After months of encouraging jobs reports, the number of new jobs to come online in March of 2012 plummeted. This is just one example of how difficult the nation’s economy is to navigate since the 2008 and 2009 crisis.
Business Startup Formation Declined in 2011 but Just a Little
There are a lot of ways to measure the strength of the economy but most of the measures you hear about in the financial news media are unimportant to you, the everyday consumer and entrepreneur. Strange acronyms like CPI indexes help very little when you’re deciding whether this is the year to open your business.
Why You Should be a User Entrepreneur
When you dreamed of starting a business was there a problem you were trying to solve or was your future business startup a franchise or other existing model? According to the Kauffman Foundation, the largest foundation in the world dedicated to supporting entrepreneurial growth, almost half of all business startups are founded by “user entrepreneurs.” [...]
Don’t be a Victim of these Work at Home Scams
With the unemployment rate at historically high levels, many Americans are turning to entrepreneurship as a means of replacing lost income but they’re also using their layoff as a reason to follow their dreams of owning their own business. For many, breaking out of their comfort zone of regular income from their employer is difficult [...]
Is the SBA Doing Less But Asking for More?
In February, the Small Business Administration, the government agency charged with supporting the nation’s entrepreneurs and small business owners, submitted its budget request along with the proposed budget laid out by the Obama Administration. In it, the SBA asked for more money but pledged to cut back on loans to small businesses. This has entrepreneurs [...]
Is Crowdfunding the Startup Funding Source of the Future?
The problem is well known within the small business community. Although Washington might say that the environment is better for business startups looking to open their doors for the first time, the reality is much different. Funding sources are hard to find and without capital, businesses in the beginning phases of development find it difficult [...]
Disappointing Survey Results for Entrepreneurs
The Obama Administration worked hard to encourage small business growth last year. Washington even tried to encourage the formation of new companies hoping to transform a significant amount of the nation’s unemployed in to entrepreneurs. Through the United States Small Business Administration as well as numerous tax incentives, 2011 was supposed to be the year [...]
Here’s How to Get an Additional $750 Million in Small Business Investment
Washington is still looking for ways to spur more small business growth. So far, all of the attempts have done little to produce a measurable uptick in the amount of small businesses not only opening their doors but also hiring new workers.
