by Bryan McNutt

Summary:
The Affordable Care Act formulates quite a few changes to make insurance more affordable for smaller companies (up to 25 employees).  Five billion dollars has been appropriated to the new tax credits, available to small companies, offering their employees insurance, until the end of 2013.  On January 1, 2014 the bulk [...]

SBA Administrator Karen Mills explains the Affordable Care Act, a federal statute enacted in March 2010 as a product of the congressional health care reform, as it relates to the small business owner. Read her letter here and let us know what you think.

The other night (Thursday, January 28, 2010) I was watching the local news and there was an excellent story on the role that entrepreneurship has and will continue to play in Nevada’s economic recovery from the current recession. Dr. Mark Pingle, economics professor at the University of Nevada, Reno, was interviewed by Channel 4 [...]

A few months ago, I introduced you to different “types” or “parts” of economic development, including: 1) technology-led or oriented economic development, 2) small business and entrepreneurship oriented economic development, 3) workforce development, 4) business retention and expansion, 5) real estate development and reuse, and 6) neighborhood level economic development. I argued that [...]

I thought that for my next blog I’d continue elaborating on different types of local economic development.  In my last blog, I talked about small business and entrepreneurial-led economic development.   Today, I’d like to talk about tech-transfer and technology-led economic development.  The International Economic Development Council (IEDC) defines “tech transfer economic development” as the “movement [...]

Back on October 14, I wrote a piece on whether or not economic development can help solve our current financial crisis.  In short, I answered “no”.  But I also argued that a comprehensive local economic development strategy could contribute to long-term, stable local economic growth.  I also wrote that any comprehensive local economic development strategy [...]

A great new online resource for entrepreneurs was launched yesterday as part of EntrepreneurshipWeek which is currently underway.
The Biz Info Library contains a well organized yet vast collection of brief business articles on topics including Researching, Financing, Starting a Business, Marketing, and Managing Employees in a Business.
I took a little time this afternoon [...]