Rob Kaiser

A new project is seeking to encourage minority entrepreneurship and business development in distressed urban areas. The Urban Entrepreneurship Partnership is seeking to combine public and private resources to open...

Hiring plans at small businesses have been scaled back, although small-business owners are still optimistic their firms will be able to grow soon, according to a semiannual American Express survey....

The Small Business Administration set a record with the number of loans it guaranteed in fiscal year 2004, which ended Sept. 30. During the year, the agency backed nearly 75,000...

The Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center has received $270,000 from the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity. Affiliated with the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce, the center works with 750 firms annually...

The Democratic side of the House Small Business Committee has issued its agenda for small-business legislation, as well as a sharp critique of the Bush administration's small-business policies. In the...

Initial public offering activity continues to show signs of strengthening. Twenty-four companies that were backed by venture capital money went public in the third quarter, raising $3.2 billion, according to...

A group has been formed to study how legal and regulatory policymaking affects small businesses and entrepreneurs. The Kauffman-Rand Center for the Study of Small Business and Regulation will research...

The federal government is failing to reach its goals of contracting with small firms, according to the Democrats on the House Small Business Committee. Overall, the group gave the government...

The Small Business Administration and the HP Small Business Foundation are expanding their "business matchmaking" initiative to include online matchmaking and counseling components in the program. Using the Internet to...

More small businesses are eligible to file simplified expense forms with the Internal Revenue Service. The IRS recently doubled the business expense threshold to $5,000 from $2,500 to file the...