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...
Tag: Small business financing
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...
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...
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 ...