Startups End a Bruising 2022, Stare Down Another Challenging Year

Startups had a dismal year by nearly every measurement in 2022, from plummeting investment to scarce public listings, and data point to a 2023 that could be even more difficult. As markets tanked in e...

Fed rate hike pushes business loans over 10% for first time since 2007

With the Federal Reserve’s latest rate hike adding half a percentage point to the cost of debt capital and reaching its highest level in 15 years, the majority of small business loans will hit t...

How much small business owners should pay themselves

Many small business owners have trouble figuring out an appropriate take-home pay as the company expands, and some don’t pay themselves at all. These mistakes can easily come back to bite the founder ...

What the Fed’s big interest rate hikes mean for Main Street economy

Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell speaks during a news conference following a two-day meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) in Washington, July 27, 2022. Elizabeth Frantz | Re...

Main Street businesses land record $154 billion in federal contracts

The federal government awarded $154.2 billion to small businesses in fiscal year 2021, an $8 billion increase from the previous fiscal year, according to data from the Small Business Administration re...

The 8 best options to get small business funding

For many small businesses, access to funding can be a matter of life and death.  The stakes are especially high given that 18.4% of U.S. businesses fail within the first year, 49.7% after five years a...

What Main Street and the economy need from Congress: Goldman Sachs CEO

Pawel Toczynski | The Image Bank | Getty Images The U.S. economy is going through one of the most difficult periods I’ve seen in my 40-year career. Inflation, labor shortages, supply chain disru...

Most business owners don’t do the math on their most valuable asset

Many small company owners don’t know what their enterprise is worth, a practice that can amount to risky business. A whopping 98% of small businesses polled by M&T Bank over the past two yea...

Behind on retirement saving? A bad market can be a good time to invest

Small business owners are among the Americans most likely to fall behind on saving for retirement. Investing back into a business is more often a priority for entrepreneurs with any excess cash than i...

Stacey Abrams on why companies shouldn’t always speak out on politics

Companies are under intense pressure to speak out on a variety of political issues at local, state and national levels. Whether it is police action in a city, Disney in Florida, or the likely wave of ...

The Congressional spending bill battle had a message for Main Street

Elizabeth Frantz | Reuters A majority of small business owners on Main Street say they support more financial relief from the federal government, but the resolution of the battle in Congress last week...

Need a business loan? Inflation leads Main Street into more debt

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – APRIL 28: Deanna Sison takes a break from preparing preordered lunches to check the status of her federal small business loan application at Little Skillet restaurant in San ...

Here’s what the end of Covid tax breaks means for business owners 

Samuel Corum/Bloomberg via Getty Images Rules around small business taxes have changed significantly in the last two years. This year is no exception as many of the various pandemic-era deductions and...

George Soros Buys a Big Rivian Stake

Text size Soros Fund Management’s stake was worth about $2.1 billion at the end of December. Courtesy Rivian George Soros’ family investment office, Soros Fund Management, revealed a new stake i...

Struggling small businesses hope more Covid relief is on the way

andresr | E+ | Getty Images Almost two years into the Covid-19 pandemic, many small businesses are still struggling. While financial assistance for those impacted by the crisis has ended, some of the ...