Congress should heed the microbusiness motto: do what works
These last couple of weeks have just been surreal. And perhaps the most interesting thing about them has been the way people are reacting.
Just looking over my Twitter, I can identify folks who have a sizable interest in the stock market — most notably via 401(k) retirement savings plans — and who are in varying [...]
Podcast: Needs Assessment Captures Micro Reality
In this week’s microbusiness news, we have an important small business needs assessment and, of course, we have the economy.
You didn’t really think I said everything I had to say on the subject last week, did you?
That needs assessment comes to us from our friends over at REAP and, while all the survey respondents [...]
TGIF and clouds and silver linings and crunching credit
New York Times quote of the day: “The situation is like that movie trailer where a guy with a deep, scary voice says, ‘In a world where credit markets are frozen, where banks refuse to lend to each other at any price, only one man, with one plan can save us,’ “ said Jared Bernstein, [...]
Small business, risk management and data security standards
In case you didn’t know it, if you accept credit card payments, you need to be in compliance with the data security standards developed by the PCI Security Standards Council. That’s true whether you are a point-of-service merchant who swipes your customers’ credit cards or whether you are an online microbusiness merchant who never sees [...]
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