http://blog.inc.com/the-entrepreneurial-agenda/ Veteran reporter Robb Mandelbaum writes about the big issues that affect entrepreneurs, especially as they relate to the 2008 presidential campaign. Read full bio en-us 2008-12-24T09:33:38-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://blog.inc.com/the-entrepreneurial-agenda/2008/12/when_you_fall_out_of_love_with.html Back in February, the American Small Business League endorsed Barack Obama for president, the only small business advocacy group, so far as the Agenda knows, to do so. Although it wasn't really of an endorsement -- it was more of... 4110@http://blog.inc.com/the-entrepreneurial-agenda/ 2008-12-24T09:33:38-05:00 http://blog.inc.com/the-entrepreneurial-agenda/2008/12/and_the_sbas_next_chief_is_rea.html ...Karen Gordon Mills, a Maine-based investment manager, according to an account in today's Portland Press Herald. (ABC News reported the story yesterday.) Obama is said to make the announcement today in Chicago. (Hat tip to an alert and thoughtful reader... 4098@http://blog.inc.com/the-entrepreneurial-agenda/ 2008-12-19T09:49:01-05:00 http://blog.inc.com/the-entrepreneurial-agenda/2008/12/and_the_sbas_next_chief_is.html ...Magic Johnson? Perhaps not, but that's who Karen Kerrigan, president and CEO of the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council would pick. Speaking to the Wall Street Journal blog Independent Street, she outlined Magic's qualifications, as summarized by reporter Kelly Spors:... 4097@http://blog.inc.com/the-entrepreneurial-agenda/ 2008-12-18T15:39:40-05:00 http://blog.inc.com/the-entrepreneurial-agenda/2008/12/kerry_grows_too_big_for_small.html For years, the small business constituency had a powerful advocate in Senator John Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts. He was chairman of the Senate Committee of Small Business and Entrepreneurship, an undersized role for a former Democratic nominee for president. Though... 4087@http://blog.inc.com/the-entrepreneurial-agenda/ 2008-12-16T15:34:40-05:00 http://blog.inc.com/the-entrepreneurial-agenda/2008/12/a_peek_at_the_obama_sba.html Last week, the Center for American Progress offered the incoming Obama Administration a public memo on the future of the Small Business Administration. CAP is a Democratic Party think tank with a stubbornly centrist (as the name implies) bent --... 4079@http://blog.inc.com/the-entrepreneurial-agenda/ 2008-12-15T16:13:48-05:00 http://blog.inc.com/the-entrepreneurial-agenda/2008/12/no_good_guys_at_republic_windo.html This is the blog post I wanted to publish today: Let us go back, shall we, to the heady days of September 2008, when plutocratic bankers, of the kind Thomas Nast once drew, clamored for public money -- for the... 4067@http://blog.inc.com/the-entrepreneurial-agenda/ 2008-12-11T13:15:24-05:00 http://blog.inc.com/the-entrepreneurial-agenda/2008/12/the_nsbas_muddle_way.html It's sometimes worth remembering that the National Federation of Independent Business is not the only small business lobby crawling the corridors of Washington power. The National Small Business Association was founded in 1937, and claims 150,000 members. This morning, it's... 4054@http://blog.inc.com/the-entrepreneurial-agenda/ 2008-12-10T11:21:02-05:00 http://blog.inc.com/the-entrepreneurial-agenda/2008/11/sba_lending_in_freefall.html Small Business Administration guaranteed lending appears to be collapsing, and the agency is loosening the rules on the interest rates banks can charge in order to induce more lending. According to figures provided by the agency, the total number of... 3971@http://blog.inc.com/the-entrepreneurial-agenda/ 2008-11-14T17:10:47-05:00 http://blog.inc.com/the-entrepreneurial-agenda/2008/11/did_the_nfibs_campaign_gamble.html This year, the National Federation of Independent Business put up $1.6 million to support a handful of Republican running for re-election or election to Congress, wading in to closely contested races with sharp-edged TV, radio, and print ads. The Agenda... 3950@http://blog.inc.com/the-entrepreneurial-agenda/ Campaign For The White House 2008 2008-11-07T11:44:30-05:00 http://blog.inc.com/the-entrepreneurial-agenda/2008/11/the_vote_in_iowa.html A year ago, the Entrepreneurial Agenda took its campaign coverage to Iowa. In a conference room at the Des Moines Partnership, a handful of entrepreneurs gathered to discuss the issues that were most important to them and how well the... 3942@http://blog.inc.com/the-entrepreneurial-agenda/ Iowa Small Business Forum 2008-11-05T10:25:20-05:00 http://blog.inc.com/the-entrepreneurial-agenda/2008/11/if_you_do_nothing_else_today.html ...don't forget to vote.... 3940@http://blog.inc.com/the-entrepreneurial-agenda/ 2008-11-04T08:31:01-05:00 http://blog.inc.com/the-entrepreneurial-agenda/2008/10/fairweather_free_marketeer_ret.html He's baaack! Today, appearing on Good Morning America, John McCain showed us his socialist side. "I would do whatever I think needs to be done to help our automotive industry," he said, from a campaign stop in Ohio. "We've got... 3932@http://blog.inc.com/the-entrepreneurial-agenda/ Campaign For The White House 2008 2008-10-31T10:41:38-05:00 http://blog.inc.com/the-entrepreneurial-agenda/2008/10/mccain_camp_on_health_talking.html Did McCain's senior economic advisor Douglas Holtz-Eakin really admit yesterday that his boss' health care plan won't really work? Many people seem to think so. But judge for yourself. Here he is in a report from the Money magazine pages... 3913@http://blog.inc.com/the-entrepreneurial-agenda/ Campaign For The White House 2008 2008-10-29T11:56:16-05:00 http://blog.inc.com/the-entrepreneurial-agenda/2008/10/the_candidates_the_issues_any.html Really -- we're not being rhetorical here. This election season, Inc.com has worked mightily to make sure entrepreneurs and small business owners know where the candidates stand on the issues that matter most to them -- if you haven't visited... 3909@http://blog.inc.com/the-entrepreneurial-agenda/ Campaign For The White House 2008 2008-10-28T10:56:16-05:00 http://blog.inc.com/the-entrepreneurial-agenda/2008/10/election_spending_the_chamber.html The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is apparently not satisfied with the Republican Party's electoral efforts. Per the Wall Street Journal: "The Chamber says it has raised enough money this year from corporations to spend about $35 million on the election,... 3904@http://blog.inc.com/the-entrepreneurial-agenda/ 2008-10-24T17:16:20-05:00