Archives: Resources

  • July 20, 2016
    The SBA Office of Advocacy has updated its most widely used publication: “Frequently Asked Questions about Small Business.” The Small…
  • June 8, 2016
    Asset Funders Network recently published “Prison to Proprietor: Entrepreneurship as a Re-Entry Strategy.” The report features several programs that use…
  • May 24, 2016
    Opportunity Fund released a very important research report, “Unaffordable and Unsustainable: The New Business Lending on Main Street.” Until now,…
  • March 7, 2016
    This research is an analysis of the key trends and findings in women’s business ownership, comparing figures from the 2002,…
  • March 1, 2016
    Seven Federal Reserve Banks released Small Business Credit Survey: Report on Employer Firms. The three main findings: financing success improved in…
  • February 10, 2016
    For centuries, the cost of distance has determined where businesses produce and sell, where employers locate jobs and where families…
  • February 8, 2016
    With this report, the Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative (SLEI) shares research from its 2016 Survey of U.S. Latino Business Owners.…
  • February 4, 2016
    Entrepreneurship is lower among Millennials than among prior generations. In 2014, less than 2 percent of Millennials reported self-employment, compared…
  • January 1, 2016
    One of the Council’s key areas of research is on women’s access to capital, a continual challenge for women entrepreneurs.…
  • January 1, 2016
    The DBO on Dec. 11, 2015, launched an inquiry into the so-called online, or alternative, lending sector. The inquiry’s objective…