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Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

Business.gov: Your Tax Dollars at Work

The Small Business Administration in partnership with twenty one federal agencies has developed a website that will offer more regulatory help to small business than ever was available before.

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Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

Stacking the Deck Against Small Business—Again!

The folks in Congress can't seem to keep from doing as much harm as good. New legislation to reauthorize the SBA's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs has a poison pill in it that should worry any small business owner trying to compete for government contracts.

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Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

Nominations for Review and Reform: The Second Year of the r3 Initiative

It is time for the voice of small business to he heard! The Office of Advocacy of the U.S. Small Business Administration is once again seeking nominations of federal rules in need of review and reform. This is your chance to nominate a rule that you feel needs to modified or pulled off the books entirely.

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Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

The SBA’s Top Ten for Regulatory Review and Reform

Small Businesses pay about 45% more per employee for regulation compliance than big businesses do, but the SBA is working to ease that burden. Take a look at how they are doing.

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Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

SBA Partnership with the U.S. Navy Spells Opportunity for Small Business

The Small Business Administration and the U.S. Department of the Navy have signed an Agreement to improve federal contracting opportunities for small businesses participating in the SBA's 8(a) Business Development program. Learn what this could mean to you and how to take advantage of the opportunities that arise from supplying our Navy and Marine Corps.

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Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

Small Business: When Government Stacks the Deck against You

We expect a degree of corruption, arrogance and drooling self-interest from our elected officials. However, we could have more respect for the operatives, the party-men and the politicos themselves if they could be just a little intelligent about it. Don't they know that giving big businesses the contracts set aside for small business is a felony?

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Lisa Doyle
Lisa Doyle

When Natural Disaster Strikes

Thousands of small businesses will be affected by natural disasters this year, and many of them won't have taken the necessary measures to protect their physical structures. However, that doesn't have to mean the end of the business altogether.


Tags: disaster, sba

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Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

Small Business Boost from the U.S. Senate? Don’t forget Energy!

The President and the Senate both have plans to help small business, but will it be enough in the face of runaway energy prices? Find out here.


Tags: sba, energy

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Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

Free SBA Online Courses: The Small Business Primer

The SBA's Small Business Primer is a self-paced overview course of the processes and necessities associated with starting a small business. Along the way, the student has the opportunity to find helpful resources associated with each main topic. For anyone contemplating their own small business, this is a great place to start.

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