Policy Forum Blog
- VC & Startups Roundtable
- According to PWC Money Tree 90% of “startup capital” comes from angel investors; who are these angels? How do angels and professionally managed angel groups contribute to the life cycle of a company; where do angels invest? where do VC’s invest? Also, the SBA Business...
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Posted by: Mark Marich
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April 23, 2010
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- Multiagency Initiative to Create Energy-Related Regional Innovation Cluster
- Seven federal agencies will
work together to leverage funding and resources to promote regional growth
through an
Energy Regional Innovation
Cluster (E-RIC).
The E-RIC will work to
disseminate new technologies into the local marketplace and share best practices
with the public and private sectors. The cluster...
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Posted by: Mark Marich
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February 15, 2010
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- Skepticism about Obama’s Small Business Lending Plan
- An article in today’s Washington Independent, “Obama’s Small Business Lending
Plan Meets Skepticism,” lays out concerns with the President’s plan to make $30 billion in repaid TARP funds available for
small banks to lend to small businesses.
“There’s little indication
that these banks need the money — or that...
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Posted by: Mark Marich
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February 15, 2010
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Capitol Hill
- Access to Credit Improving... Barely
- A number of sources are indicating that banks are relaxing lending standards -- leading to a slow increase in small business demand for loans. The graph below from the December issue of The Small Business Advocate suggests that brighter days are ahead. The latest report...
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Posted by: Mark Marich
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January 04, 2010
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- Rockstar Entrepreneurs Don't Come to Washington
- If you have ever been around somebody trying to start or grow abusiness, you know that entrepreneurs don’t have time for much else,especially not for going to Washington to help keep policymakers up todate on how to encourage high growth entrepreneurship in America—nothurt it. When...
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Posted by: Jonathan Ortmans
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September 28, 2009
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Capitol Hill
- SBA Expands Microloan Program
- The Small BusinessAdministration (SBA) has expanded its Microloan program as Recovery Act fundsare making their way into access to capital programs for small businesses. Theincreased funds -- an additional $50 million for loans and $24 million for technical assistance from the the American Recovery and...
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Posted by: Mark Marich
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September 01, 2009
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Capitol Hill
- SBA Introduces YouTube Channel
- The Small Business Administration recently launched it's own YouTube channel, joining an increasing number of federal agencies that are taking advantage of the popular video-sharing platform to reach a larger audience.The channel will carry a variety of content aimed at helping support entrepreneurs and small...
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Posted by: Mark Marich
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August 28, 2009
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Capitol Hill
- Documenting the Impact of Broadband on Small Businesses
- The Small Business Administration Office of Advocacy islooking for a contractor to conduct a study to evaluate the impact of broadband speed and priceon small businesses. Advocacy offers toprovide assistance in obtaining access to non-proprietary FederalCommunications Commission (FCC) and other agency data, if necessary.The study...
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Posted by: Mark Marich
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August 24, 2009
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- Quarterly Indicators: Optimism Increasing Slightly
- Thelatest update to the SBA Office of Advocacy’s Quarterly Indicators: TheEconomy and Small Business is now available. Real GDP fell only 1 percent in the second quarter of 2009compared to the previous quarter's 6.4 percent drop. Accordingly, smallbusiness owners seemed more optimistic in the second...
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Posted by: Mark Marich
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August 24, 2009
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- Access to Credit Studies
- The SBA's Office of Advocacy recently released “Small Business In Focus: Finance," a compendium of studies offering insights into the ways small businesses have used financing over recent decades. These insights are based on data from the Federal Reserve Board’s Survey of Small Business Finances...
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Posted by: Jonathan Ortmans
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July 29, 2009
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