[Podcast] Senate Panel Explores Getting Health Reform Right
Before I get to this week’s microbusiness news, a bit of housekeeping.
Raw Voice (owners of Blubrry.com, the podcast network to which the Microbusiness News Briefs belongs) and several other podcasting companies have joined with The Association for Downloadable Media (ADM) on the “Consumers Attitudes on Advertising & Sponsorship in Audio and Video Podcasts” research [...]
Microbusiness Profile: Washington Accounting Services
Over the last few months, we’ve heard fairly often about “forced entrepreneurs” or “accidental entrepreneurs.” Those are the folks who get laid off during economic downturns, can’t find a job, and end up starting a small business out of something like desperation.
Usually, we are told, the proprietors of these little desperation enterprises set them aside [...]
Podcast: Senate Committee Looks Into Alternative Financing
Happy Small Business Week!
This weekly ritual small business groveling that emerges from Washington every year is always a time of profound irony for me. It’s tough to take policy makers seriously when they spout off about the manifold wonderfulnesses of small businesses, when the actual economic policies they craft say something very different.
Or, to [...]



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