The U.S. Small Business Administration and SCORE – Counselors to America’s Small Business – are organizations that continually work to help small business owners get their ideas off the ground. Now, the two are teaming up to help match aspiring New Jersey entrepreneurs with SBA lenders and help them get the funding they need to […]
Verizon has launched a new entrepreneurship grant program in partnership with the State of New York designed to help domestic violence survivors successfully develop small businesses.
The Better Business Bureau says a new telephone-based scam abusing disability services is targeting many small businesses, including restaurants and other business types.
Credit union activists are trying to encourage lawmakers raise the credit union lending cap – a move that could allow credit unions to give out $10 billion in additional loans for business formation and other uses.
House lawmakers could begin debate as early as Thursday on a bill that would eliminate capital-gains taxes on many small business investments and create a $30-billion small business loan fund.
Massachusetts Representative Barney Frank – the chair of the House Financial Services Committee – says that he expects a rule exempting small and medium businesses from costly audits to survive negotiations between the House and Senate. The rule was mandated in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
The Idaho Department of Commerce has launched a website as part of its public relations campaign to try to encourage existing small businesses and aspiring entrepreneurs to create a corporation there.
New Hampshire lawmakers say they will now work to repeal a tax on limited liability corporations during upcoming budget negotiations, after failing to include the repeal in a bill regarding reasonable compensation.