Obama Small Business Forum Will Ignore the Number One Challenge
If President Obama is serious about helping small businesses, then he should use this week's forum to address the absurd flow of federal small business contracts to Fortune 500 firms.
If President Obama is serious about helping small businesses, then he should use this week's forum to address the absurd flow of federal small business contracts to Fortune 500 firms.
Shifra Bronznick | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business
There is a simple way to improve business performance without government bailout or vast corporate investment: Appoint more women to company boards and top management teams.
Lloyd Chapman | Posted 10.21.2009 | Business
Today, President Barack Obama held a press conference in Landover, MD to announce the administration's plans for a, "New Small Business Lending Initia...
Martha St Jean | Posted 11.30.2009 | Business
"I knew that I would do something that was important. I always wanted to have power, in order to motivate others to reach their goals," says Harris.
Chris Gunn | Posted 10.18.2009 | Business
We project that by counting big businesses in the United States and Europe as small businesses the Obama Administration may be shortchanging middle class firms out of as much as $100 billion a year in contracts.
Lloyd Chapman | Posted 10.18.2009 | Business
According to information in the Federal Procurement Data System, eight of the top ten recipients of federal small business contracts were actually large businesses or divisions of large businesses.
Lloyd Chapman | Posted 08.27.2009 | Business
The ASBL is the only national small business group that does not take money from Fortune 500 firms or big businesses. We only fight for small businesses.
Julie Menin | Posted 08.21.2009 | Business
We have a long way to go in providing opportunities for women in corporate America, but we'll never get there if the attitude is that a woman "can't" have it all.
Chris Gunn | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics
Johnson proposed the "Fairness and Transparency in Contracting Act of 2009," to provide small businesses across the country with billions of dollars in additional contracting opportunities.
Michael Maslansky | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics
In today's age of the media microscope, every judge, politician or CEO has at least one "whoops" that they wish they hadn't said or done. The challenge is in how well you handle your critics.
Lloyd Chapman | Posted 08.10.2009 | Politics
I have talked to hundreds of Hispanic business owners and Hispanic chambers of commerce across the country that want nothing to do with the USHCC.
Chris Gunn | Posted 08.10.2009 | Business
The U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce has shown no commitment to removing corporate giants from small business contracting programs.
UberCEO | Posted 07.25.2009 | Business
We're surprised, but not shocked, to find that the top CEOs in the country appear to be mostly absent from the social media community. That's the res...
Judith M. Bardwick | Posted 06.19.2009 | Living
Learn to break larger projects into separate parts or steps and prioritize which need to be done swiftly and unusually well. Do not sweat the smaller stuff which are not critical.
David Fiderer | Posted 06.21.2009 | Business
Nobody has a good take on the ultimate costs of the mortgage crisis, but the IMF believes the size of the problem is about double the amount estimated six months earlier.
CNN | Posted 05.20.2009 | Business
It was 1955, the year Disneyland opened and Ray Kroc sold his first hamburger. Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were born that year. And it was in 1955 that...
Anthony Tjan | Posted 04.03.2009 | Business
Harrington: "The biggest issue is how well the entrepreneur can scale. It's important for them to realize that one person can't control everything, that they can't be VP of marketing, sales, and operations."
Joan Garry | Posted 03.20.2009 | Politics
It's time to reframe the discussion. Instead of talking about the rights and protections we as gay Americans deserve, let's put ourselves in the shoes of the guy who will make the decision.
Lloyd Chapman | Posted 03.16.2009 | Business
Legislation and policies that would reduce the volume of federal contracts obtained by legitimate small businesses could be even more devastating to our national economy.
Lloyd Chapman | Posted 03.06.2009 | Business
The American Small Business League is concerned the Obama stimulus bill may ultimately include the loophole venture capitalists have been lobbying for.
Lloyd Chapman | Posted 03.01.2009 | Business
Just days before the election, Obama dropped a comprehensive plan to stimulate the middle class economy by stopping the diversion of federal small business contracts to corporate giants.
Lloyd Chapman | Posted 02.22.2009 | Business
Obama has ignored pleas from small business groups to adopt legislation and policies to stop Fortune 500 firms from commandeering up to $100 billion a year in federal small business contracts.
Chris Gunn | Posted 02.19.2009 | Business
The Exception Magazine published the following story this morning. On February 22, 2008, Barack Obama released the following statement: "It is time ...
Lloyd Chapman | Posted 02.19.2009 | Business
Obama has failed to include any provision in his economic stimulus plan to stop the diversion of billions of dollars in federal small business contracts to Fortune 500 firms.
Lloyd Chapman | Posted 02.12.2009 | Business
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D - CA) is leading congressional support for a new loophole in federal contracting law that will allow some of the wealthi...
Lloyd Chapman | Posted 11.17.2009 | Business