Posts Tagged ‘Small Business Lending Fund’
7 Most Expensive Hidden Costs of Starting a Small Business
By Danny Duric, ResourceNation.com Being independent, choosing the people you work with and getting steady money from a business month after month is a job description that many of us find appealing, and yet you don’t see a lot of people running a successful small [Read More]
How To Skyrocket Your Business Profits In Less Than 12 Months
By Katie Morell, OpenForum In late 2008, Krista Neher was flying high. She’d recently launched Boot Camp Digital, a social media marketing company in Cincinnati, Ohio, and already had an impressive docket of clients. Even so, she wanted more. “After my first year, I [Read More]
Loans to Small Businesses Emerge for First Time Since Lehman
Lending to small U.S. businesses is making a comeback on Wall Street, with 12 investment firms arranging $1.38 billion of initial stock offerings to funnel cash to the nation’s biggest job creators. [Read More]
Small biz programs on chopping block in 2012 budget
Like the rest of the federal government, the Small Business Administration is going to get the squeeze in 2012, according to President Obama's budget proposal released Monday. The SBA -- and, most critically, the lending programs it backs -- got some pretty hefty [Read More]
Small Business Jobs Act of 2010
The Small Business Jobs Act, signed by President Obama on September 27, 2010, will provide critical resources to help small businesses continue to drive economic recovery and create jobs. The new law extends the successful SBA Recovery loans while offering billions more in [Read More]
Obama signs $30B small business lending bill
By Darlene Superville, Associated Press WASHINGTON — Scoring a prized political victory five weeks before the Nov. 2 elections, President Barack Obama on Monday signed a bill to help small businesses expand and hire by cutting their taxes and creating a $30 billion loan [Read More]
Borrowing from friends, family? Put terms in writing
By Jayne O’Donnell, USA TODAY “Never again,” says Martha Woods of lending money to family or friends for business ventures. Woods and her husband once invested about $10,000 in an auto racing team with his brother, but her brother-in-law wanted out after [Read More]
Senate OKs $30 billion loan fund for small businesses
By Laura Petrecca, USA TODAY Small firms across the country should soon be able to get more loans and save money on them. After months of partisan wrangling, the Senate on Thursday passed legislation that includes a controversial $30 billion fund to help community banks [Read More]
Women Business Owners and Venture Capital: What’s the Disconnect?
By Rieva Lesonsky, Small Business Trends I’ve been reading and writing about this issue for so long that I almost can’t believe it’s still an issue—but a plethora of data shows that women business owners are still falling woefully short when it comes to obtaining [Read More]
Senate Clears Way for $30 Billion Small Business Fund
Washington is poised to launch its most direct attempt to revive small business lending since the financial crisis with a plan to invest up to $30 billion of federal money in small banks and give them incentives to re-lend that money to Main Street companies. The Small [Read More]
