Obama plays his first small business card with mystery appointment

The announcement came down this afternoon: President-elect Barack Obama has named Karen Gordon Mills to be the next head muckety-muck of the Small Business Administration.
If you’re like the small business owners I’ve talked to since the news broke, along about now you may be saying, Who?
Ms. Mills is evidently a venture capital expert, having served [...]

Podcast: Can SBA Loans Help When Banks Aren’t Around?

This is my final regular podcast for the year and, if I do say so myself, I’ve got some good stories for you.
Lawmakers have been complaining about how well the SBA has handled the small business credit crunch but, really, how much can they do when all their loan programs are tied up with banks? [...]

To Obama’s economists, on behalf of microbusinesses

(The following is a letter I sent to the Obama Transition Team via Change.gov. In spite of the fact that they invite us all to share our thoughts, I don’t know that I expect anything to come of it. But, under the circumstances, I felt it was the least I could do.)
As you turn your [...]

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