Small business owners are an optimistic lot, with studies showing that they tend to have a rosier outlook than other people. Yet four years into the economic recovery, surveys show ...

Housing prices are on the upswing, increasing 9.3 percent between February 2012 and February 2013, the Wall Street Journal reported last week. That’s not just good news for America’s ...

Message to small business owners around the world: If you want to be loved, move to America. In the United States, small business owners are held in high esteem. A 2010 Pew Foundation ...

An unstable income is almost always guaranteed when just starting your business, but research shows it's one of the top fears that keeps Americans from becoming entrepreneurs.

For the past few years, a number of prominent U.S. venture capitalists have been trying to convince Congress to modify the U.S. UB-5 visa program. Currently, the program allows foreigners ...

Washington wants to be seen as helping small business. With approval ratings hovering around 25 percent, Congress wants to associate itself with one of America’s most popular institutions ...

For the first time in years, the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives are simultaneously developing federal budget plans. While some small business owners will undoubtedly prefer ...

The sequester is here. Over the next seven months, federal agencies need to trim their budgets by $85 billion. How much will this budget cutting exercise cost small business contractors? Coming ...

Employment is higher than before the Great Recession at only the smallest businesses, data from the most recent ADP Employment Report shows. In conjunction with Moody’s Analytics, ...

Here’s a bit of bad news for entrepreneurs seeking to finance high potential startups. Venture capitalists are doing fewer deals and investing less money than they did before the ...