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House Small Business Committee Chairman Sam Graves and ranking member Nydia Velazquez are going all out for Wall Street in a grab for federal small business research grants.

How do you establish business credit? Learn how to obtain business credit for your company without putting your personal credit and personal assets at risk.

Covenants within the purchase agreement are promises, or agreements between the buyer and seller. Conditions to Closing typically provide an escape hatch for a buyer to legally walk away from the deal at...

Applying for credit with many banks or other lenders could hurt your business. Here is how to give lenders what they need to make an initial credit decision without it showing up on...

2011 College and high school grads this year may be better able to find a job then in the last few years, but statistics are in favor of age, educational level and experience.

This week, we celebrate the role small businesses play in the U.S. economy. But the best thing we can do for small biz today is resolve a simmering debt-ceiling crisis.

Political posturing in Congress has put the renewal of two prominent federal small-business grant and investment programs into serious doubt.

The Obama Administration wants small business owners to know that it cares about them. But that benign attitude doesn't always translate into hard results.

The Small Business Investment Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs will expire at the end of May, although a temporary extension seems likely.

Funds for innovation and technology research will vaporize at the end of May, unless an extension is approved. But that doesn't look likely.

U.S. hits debt ceiling

Americans are angsting about the economy, but the debt situation could have just as much impact on small-business expectations.

To promote innovation, the U.S. government, and specifically the Small Business Administration, offers opportunities for small businesses to land government research financing.

New survey confirms what most small businesses have suspected for a while: The recovery is dead....

Small businesses interested in raising more capital, take note: the Securities and Exchange Commission is reviewing current investment rules for small private firms.

Captive insurance is growing in the US. But will new regs create insolvent insurance firms, leaving small biz holding the bill when disaster strikes?

Key government initiatives that could spur small business hiring have been waylaid by Congressional dithering and partisan political gamesmanship.

Arsonists can have a devastating impact on communities. Here's how your business can get involved in preventing it.

Looking for a micro business loan? Discover how the new small business micro loan card can provide you the cash you need even if you have credit problems.