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Business Leaders Support Senate Passage of Crowdfunding Amendment

Published March 22, 2011 By Amy Kennedy | ASB Council WASHINGTON, DC—Today, the American Sustainable Business Council (ASBC) applauded the Senate for passing the CROWDFUND Act as an amendment to the Reopening American Capital Markets to Emerging Growth Companies Act of 2011 (HR 3606). In a letter to the Senate last week, ASBC endorsed the

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SBA’s Community Express loan ends

“Small business owners have reason to be a bit less merry this holiday season.”  That is the conclusion of Jerry Chautin, a local volunteer business counselor with Manasota SCORE, Counselors to America’s Small Business.  You need to read his opinion editorial (below) that ran in the Herald-Tribune on December 20, 2010, to understand why the SBA’s

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Billboard Truth

This past weekend I was in the Pittsburgh, PA, area visiting relatives. (They’re all fine. Thanks for asking.) On the way back to the airport a billboard caught my eye. It read: “Imagine. A bank that actually lends money.” What a great billboard! It resonates with the public because everybody knows that banks have almost

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New Small Business Loans — from Sam’s Club?

You heard me tell you this before: Image: SustainabilityNinja.com All the economists say that small businesses must lead us out of this stalled economy by creating the new jobs that we need. This obviously isn’t happening, since only 83,000 private sector new jobs were created last month in the entire country. (See Brad Warthen’s tidy

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