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 ...

These days, the director of virtually every federal agency is writing to Congress to outline some disaster looming for its constituency as a result of the sequester that cut $85 billion ...

The Business Administration recently released the 2012 Small Business Economy, its statistical report on small business. Because the report provides the latest available data on several ...

If you are not running your own business today, do you plan to start one in the next three years? Whether a person answers “yes” or “no” to this question depends a lot ...

Sales at the average small business, which had been trending upward from their nadir at the end of the Great Recession, turned south in February 2012 and declined during the better ...

In separate January surveys, Gallup’s pollsters asked samples of American small business owners and adults how different political and economic situations were affecting them. The ...

If you think that banks are less interested in lending to small business than they used to be, you’re right. In 2012, only 29 percent of all non-farm, non-residential, loans were ...

Small business does a lot for America, accounting for roughly half of private sector GDP and employment. Their economic contributions probably account for part of the reason that small ...

Today I am going to do something different. Instead of using a bunch of data to illustrate a point, I am going to discuss a single example of a town whose central planners discourage ...

Trade credit, or financing provided by the seller of a product, is an common way that small companies borrow, with research showing that 60 percent of small companies make use of it. ...