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Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

Native-Owned Small Businesses Win Top Honors for Urban Economic Growth and Development

The SBA recognized two of its Emerging 200 initiative participants as being among the winners of the 2009 Inner City 100 competition. Chosen from a pool of nearly 6,500 applicants, the winners are Sacred Power corporation of Albuquerque, New Mexico and FutureNet Group of Detroit Michigan, both of them Native-American owned and operated businesses.


Tags: small business, native american, inner city 100, sba, emerging 200, sacred power corporation, futurenet group

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Posted: 6/24/2009 | Comments Comments (0)

Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

Study Ranks Banks on Small Firm Lending, Hints at Current Trends

The Small Business Administration’s Office of Advocacy has released the findings of it Small Business & Micro Business Lending in the United States for Data Years 2007-2008, which offers information useful to any small business owner looking for a small business loan.


Tags: small business, sba, office of advocacy, small business loans

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Posted: 6/19/2009 | Comments Comments (0)

Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

ARC Loans Now Available

The SBA is accepting loan applications for a temporary new program called America’s Recovery Capital. These “ARC” loans, which go up to $35,000, help viable small businesses with immediate financial hardship to keep their doors open until they get back on track.


Tags: sba, small business, financing, arc, arc loans

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Posted: 6/17/2009 | Comments Comments (0)

Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

Small Business Week: SBA National Small Business Person of the Year

A small business owner from Oklahoma City who battled a brain tumor and overcame challenges generated by 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina to lead her environmental remediation firm to success was today named National Small Business Person of the Year. State winners from Massachusetts and Hawaii are Runners-Up


Tags: small business, sba, national small business person of the year award

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Posted: 5/21/2009 | Comments Comments (1)

Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

Small Business Week: SBA Phoenix Award Winners

Every year the Small Business Administration issues special awards to outstanding small businesses and entrepreneurs. This year, the agency honored outstanding disaster recovery efforts with their coveted Phoenix Award.


Tags: small business, sba, phoenix award

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Posted: 5/20/2009 | Comments Comments (0)

Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

SBA Loans: The Irony of Cutbacks and Finding Your Funding

With Billions of dollars being spent to “inject liquidity” into the banking industry, why have four of the SBA's largest bank lenders decided to stop making loans to small businesses?


Tags: small business, loans, sba, banking, loan cutbacks

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Posted: 3/24/2009 | Comments Comments (0)

Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

SBA Loan Default: Any Suggestions?

Sometimes bad things do happen to good people. Here we have a couple who cosigned on an SBA loan so the wife’s sister could open a restaurant. The sister came down with a terrible illness, the business failed, now here they are responsible for the loan and the bank is eyeing their home. Folks, we are looking for suggestions on this one.


Tags: small business, economy, sba, loan, default, cosigner

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Posted: 12/9/2008 | Comments Comments (8)

Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

Fraud Hits the SBA

In times of trouble, fraud is always rampant, and government agencies with billions of dollars to throw around in hopes of stimulating the economy make very tempting targets. Now it is the HUBZone Empowerment Contracting Program.


Tags: small business, sba, hubzone, fraud, aig

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Posted: 11/25/2008 | Comments Comments (0)

Ed Hubert
Ed Hubert

Opportunities for Small Business on the Horizon

Chad Moutray from the SBA's Office of Advocacy has identified five opportunities coming in the next decade that small business owners can look forward to exploring.


Tags: small business, sba, office of advocacy, chad moutray, investment, technology, innovation, economic gardening, international markets, women, minorities, education, training

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Posted: 11/6/2008 | Comments Comments (0)

Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

SBA Asks Lenders to Offer Loan Deferment Relief

The SBA is now working with its lenders to provide some relief for small businesses hit hard by the current economic climate, but is it enough? You be the judge.


Tags: small business, sba, loans, deferment, relief

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Posted: 10/22/2008 | Comments Comments (1)

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.


Tags: small business, sba, business.gov, regulation

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Posted: 10/14/2008 | Comments Comments (3)

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.


Tags: small business, congress, sba, small business innovation research, sbir, small business technology transfer, sttr

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Posted: 10/8/2008 | Comments Comments (0)

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.


Tags: small business, regulation, sba, r3, 2009

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Posted: 9/24/2008 | Comments Comments (0)

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.


Tags: small business, regulation, sba, r3

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Posted: 8/28/2008 | Comments Comments (1)

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.


Tags: small business, sba, navy, procurement, 8(a) business development plan

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Posted: 7/14/2008 | Comments Comments (0)

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