Rick Raulin: Seek new businesses, support existing ones – madison
Dane County must be willing to fight for businesses. We cannot be afraid to create controversies by luring business here. Our economic life is at stake. However, remember that it takes more of an investment to cultivate a new client than to keep an existing one.
Family businesses and families must sometimes part ways – The News & Observer
Many family businesses choose to overlook these areas of underperformance for the sake of maintaining “family harmony.” Certainly, as any parent of young children can tell you, you need to pick your battles. Nothing is ever going to be perfect …
Fla. businesses to pay out more for unemployment – Yahoo Finance
TALLAHASSE, Fla. (AP) — The toll of the recession and Florida’s high unemployment rate will hit businesses next year as they will have to pay higher unemployment taxes. For two years, state lawmakers have pushed back significant hikes in the …
Small Businesses Can Save with Visa Discount Program – Yahoo Finance
SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Visa Inc. (NYSE:V – News) today announced the expansion of Visa … utility of its network to deliver more value and efficiency to small businesses, clients and merchants. Harnessing the analytics and …
Small businesses get their own APEC forum in Honolulu – The Business Journal
In the midst of the high-level government meetings and the presence of big business in Honolulu this week, small- and medium-sized businesses had their own forum to talk issues, trends and opportunities. Small businesses represent 90 percent of …
Ben Bernanke urges banks to help small businesses – Boston Herald
WASHINGTON Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says small businesses are struggling to get loans more than two years after the recession ended. He says banks could help them by easing overly tight lending standards. Bernanke says the Fed …
11 highest profit businesses to start – msnbc.com
And California ranked last among the states in 2010 for new-business creation, according to Economic Modeling Specialists Inc. That’s not good news if you agree with the Kauffman Foundation study that businesses less than 5 years old are the primary job …