Who needs a small business loan?

While the government has been pushing small business loans and other quick fixes, fewer than expected entrepreneurs have taken advantage of these programs. What alternatives are available for growing your business in the meantime?

Finance

Who needs a small business loan program? Apparently not American small businesses. After a $30 billion program is launched to help small business, few avail themselves of the opportunity. Bloomberg BusinessWeek

It?s time for a brand new movement. Forget the protests in NYC and elsewhere. The real way to fight bigcorporate greed, suggests Jeanette Mulvey, is to patronize small business. Here?s how her movement would work. Business News Daily

Opinion

How Occupy Wall Street could help your small business. In this tongue-in-cheek editorial, small business owner Gene Marks shows the interconnected state of the economy and the mistake of demonizing one or two elements over all others. Huffington Post

Can small businesses help your property values? A study suggests it can. Housing values in communities with a strong presence of independent businesses outperform other markets by big margins. Want to?boost your property values? Start a business. MarketWatch

Policy

Will a jobs bill get you to start hiring? Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is again pushing Congress to adopt the administration?s jobs bill, but the mix of tax cuts and spending initiatives may not be enough to stimulate small business job creation. WSJ

Small businesses want healthcare co-ops. One of the greatest challenges faced by small businesses is providing adequate healthcare for employees. But the proposed co-op solution may help solve that problem for good.

Can Starbucks fix the economy? The cafe giant is looking to take donations from customers to put money into seed funds that will help stimmulate small business growth and expansion. What?s your take on the Starbucks plan and could it really help small businesses? Bloomberg BusinessWeek

International

Chinese entrepreneurs take shady financing. While small businesses in the U.S. can?t seem to get finanding, some Chinese entrepreneurs take money from a network of shadowy backers. Authorities say the network isn?t large enough to threaten China?s overall economy. The Financial Times

Source: http://smallbiztrends.com/2011/10/who-needs-a-small-business-loan.html

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