White House Conference on Small Business


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 story

The Second White House Conference

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

A Chance to Be Heard

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

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 story

A Missed Opportunity

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

Small Business on a Mission

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

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 story

Hotline

Current trends and legislation affecting small business.  Read story

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

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 story

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 story

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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 story

Tax Advantaged

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

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 story

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 story

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 story

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 story

The Best Little Advocacy Group in America

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

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 story

Going Broke On Damage Awards

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

A Bloc Is Born

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

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 story

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 story

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 story

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 story

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 story

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 story

Measuring Clout

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

Employee or Independent Contractor?

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

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 story

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 story

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 story

Resources

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

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 story

The Political Odyssey Of Bill Nourse

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

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 story

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 story

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 story

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 story

What's Going To Happen In '82?

INC. asked hundreds of business people what they think this year will be like.  Read story

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