The White House Conference Follies

Inc.'s editor in chief offers comments on readers' letters about the 1995 White House Conference on Small Business.  Read more

A Chance to Be Heard

Info about the White House Conference on Small Business, to be held June 1995.  Read more

The Second White House Conference

This time around, small business should grow up.  Read more

The Insider's Guide To Small Business Resources, Compiled By David E. Gumpert And Jeffrey A. Timmons. Doubleday Co., 501 Franklin Ave., Garden City, Ny 11530; 432 Pp., $24.95.

In their brief introduction, the authors are enthusiastic about the future of small business and governmental efforts on its behalf. Obviously, it was wr...  Read more

A Missed Opportunity

An Inc. editor offers his comments on what was wrong with the 1995 White House Conference on Small Business.  Read more

Small Business on a Mission

A quick look at a small-business-only exporting mission established by the Department of Commerce.  Read more

Public Policy: What Does Business Really Want from Government?

This article explains how government must reinvent economic and regulatory policies to match today's marketplace.  Read more

Hotline

Current trends and legislation affecting small business.  Read more

Another lobbying group will be woring for small business interests in Washington. The American Business Conference, modeled after The Business Roundtable...  Read more

Take The "small" Out Of The Sba

WHILE LISTENING IN ON THE DEbate over the future of the SBA at the recent White House Conference on Small Business, an idea occurred to us that might put ...  Read more

Marching On Washington, '80s Style

Will this be the small-business conference that finally figures out the difference between being small and thinking small?  Read more

INC.'s second report on the climate for small business in the tes begins on page 95. Of all the stories we publish each year, there is no doubt that this ...  Read more

Tax Advantaged

If the Girl Scouts don't get you, the YMCA will  Read more

It's Time For Conference Ii

The 1980 White House Conference on Small Business was probably the single most significant political event in small business' history. Why has the Reagan Adm...  Read more

Breaking Antitrust

Pearlstein's article is right on target. Unfortunately, those individuals most in peril from the policy are apparently the least concerned. I recently a...  Read more

The White House Small Business Conference;

THE SIMILARITIES BETWEEN THE White House Conference on Small Business that met last August and the conference of the same name that met under Jimmy Carter...  Read more

The Best Little Advocacy Group in America

NAWBO, with its assertive marketing and effective consensus building, could best represent small business in Washington.  Read more

Small Business Pulling More Weight Down Home

Statewide small business conferences have recently rung up an impressive series of victories on the local level: * In Texas, the state legislature c...  Read more

The Small Business Decade: A Look Back At Year Two

At the small business bottom line, where it matters most, 1981 has been a year of mixed results at best. Bankruptcies escalated and high interest rates c...  Read more

Going Broke On Damage Awards

SMALL-BUSINESS LOBBIES EXERT LITTLE INFLUENCE AS CONGRESS CONSIDERS INSURANCE CRISIS.  Read more

A Bloc Is Born

An independent political consultant comments on the small-business community as a voting bloc in US politics.  Read more

Following The Pac

The National Federation of Independent Business Political Action Committee is the only major small business PAC with an operating record. It is run by a ...  Read more

In Search Of The Real Sba

Your article did a great disservice to the Small Business Administration. As president of a large, national private-sector business organization and...  Read more

Small Business -- And The Nation -- Win A Very Big One

What is the most important piece of small business legislation yet enacted in our life-time? My vote goes to the Small Business Innovation Development Ac...  Read more

Q A's On Small Business Innovation

1. Why do its supporters call the Small Business Innovation Act "an urgent national need?" Sen. Warren Rudman (R-N.H.) led a brilliantly successful...  Read more

The NSBA's Muddle Way

It's sometimes worth remembering that the National Federation of Independ...  Read more

Bringing It All Back Home

When was the last time you took a member of your state legislature to lunch? If you haven't yet, you probably should. Increasingly, if slowly, stat...  Read more

The Wonderland Economy

A close-up look at the vital role small business plays in America's economy that debunks many myths about this sector.  Read more

Employee or Independent Contractor?

A look at a new IRS program that makes it less costly if you've made the wrong call.  Read more

Measuring Clout

If small business can help Boeing, why can't it help itself?  Read more

Resources

A guide to finding more information on various topics featured in the Oct. 1996 issue of Inc. magazine.  Read more

Bill Nourse Of Brookemenade Hardware Supply: The Nuts And Bolts Of Politics

Either Ronald Reagan promises to make his next appointment to the Federal Reserve Board someone with firsthand experience in small business, "or, we'll ra...  Read more

No Longer Quiet On The Western Front

Common Market countries are launching a promising initiative to help small business growth. Small businesspeople in the United States should carefully monito...  Read more

A Failure To Communicate

Small business may have a special Presidential report, but until some more fundamental changes occur, it will never have much clout with the President.  Read more

The Making Of The President 1988

THERE IS A RISING GENERATION OF POLITICAL LEADERS -- IN BOTH PARTIES -- THAT IS LOOKING TO SHAPE A WHOLE NEW POLITICS OF GROWTH.  Read more

Now I Know My Abcs

The president of the American Business Conference would have us think that the organization represents the elite of America's growth companies. Think again.  Read more

The Political Odyssey Of Bill Nourse

How a mild-mannered hardware store proprietor joined a new breed of savvy, small business activists.  Read more

Who Loves You More? A Debate Between Partisans

GOP: What's good for America is good for small business. Democrats: What's good for small business is good for America.  Read more

Whatever Happened To The Class Of '82?

Although a sizable number returned to the list, some went public and others were aquired. But most just couldn't meet this year's faster pace.  Read more

Those Were The Days

Remember when bankruptcy meant you were broke? When John De Lorean was just a GM exec with a dream? When you thought a silicon chip was a new kind of snack f...  Read more