The U.S. Small Business Administration and AARP are partnering to help entrepreneurs older than age 50 start their own small business. The alliance between the two organizations will provide counseling and training to the aspiring entrepreneurs. The SBA training, mentors and counselors will be available online and the SBA and AARP expect to train 100,000 [...] [...]
Vic Johnson of Manitou Springs was a man with ideas. “I knew one of them would float to the top,” Johnson said. Now he’s a man with a growing business. He launched PVC Bendit a year ago. The growth started off slow, but has been picking up speed recently. Johnson is selling about 100 PVC [...] [...]
Xpriori, a Colorado Springs-based firm that specializes in electronic discovery in civil litigation, has opened a Denver office. Xpriori is a provider of eDiscovery products, those which help find documents related to specific civil cases for law firms and corporations. The new Denver office will allow the firm to grow a national presence, said Tim [...] [...]
The nation’s smallest businesses continue to outperform large companies in job creation, according to payroll company Automatic Data Processing Inc. Businesses with fewer than 50 employees created half of all new jobs in April, while small businesses overall accounted for about 96.7 percent of new jobs last month, said ADP. The figures reinforced the notion [...] [...]
Some small business owners say they are having an easier time getting credit now than in recent years. The result of having credit has helped them stay open, hire more people and expand services, according to a Wells Fargo-Gallup Small Business Index survey released this week. Since January, the number of small business owners who [...] [...]
Small businesses will soon have a new weapon in their arsenal – a free, online training curriculum for new and aspiring business owners. Sponsored by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and the U.S. Small Business Administration, the program is known as “Money Smart for Small Business.” The training curriculum provides an introduction to day-to-day business [...] [...]
Colorado credit unions are hoping that the U.S. Senate will vote this week on a proposal to lift caps on small business loans, which would free up as much as $260 million. [...]
Some businesses in Colorado are getting more loans than in recent years under a new Small Business Lending Fund. The U.S. Department of the Treasury released a report this week showing that Colorado banks have increased their small business lending by $79.4 million since receiving capital through the fund. The SBLF was established as part [...] [...]
A new public-private partnership will allow small businesses access to more than $300 billion in supply chain spending. The partnership involves 15 of the United State’s largest corporations and the U.S. Small Business Administration, according to a press release about the new collaboration. Called the Supplier Connection, the effort was created by the IBM Foundation [...] [...]
Colorado bankers have launched a campaign that attempts to reverse their image as the tight-fisted scrooge holding up the progress of small business. [...]
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