New recommendations for policies to support women entrepreneurs

By: Rieva Lesonsky

What do women business owners want? The National Women’s Business Council (NWBC) asked them, at six Town Hall Meetings held across the country in 2007 and 2008, and has compiled the answers into a new report, Current Priorities and Challenges of Women Business Owners. The report summarizes what women business owners said they would like the government to do to help support women-owned businesses in today’s economic crisis.

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Women in Consulting Names 2009 Board of Directors

San Mateo, CA – March 16, 2009—Women in Consulting (WIC), a collaborative community of professional consultants and small business owners in the San Francisco Bay Area, today announced its 2009 Board of Directors. The all-volunteer Board comprises some of the best minds in Bay Area consulting and includes some key reappointments of WIC’s senior leadership:

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Problems Spring Up in Small-Business Loans

By MARSHALL ECKBLAD

NEW YORK -- The crumbling condition of small business loans is threatening to hamstring the recovery of the U.S. economy, and tag banks with rising losses over the coming year.

The U.S. government's Small Business Administration said losses from loans made through its lending programs more than doubled in 2008, reaching nearly $1.3 billion. In 2007, the SBA charged off -- or took permanent losses against -- $504 million of the loans; in 2005, it charged off a much smaller $276 million.

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New Place to Market Your Biz Online, Free

Jobvana.com — which just received a new jolt of venture juice — is a terrific new online marketplace where service providers, solo entrepreneurs and other biz owners or jobvana-screenshot1professionals can market their wares and find new customers — for free. Electricians, contractors, guitar instructors, nannies, business consultants, lawyers, insurance agents and many others are already on Jobvana. John Chapple, a Yahoo board member, is a backer via Hawkeye Investments.

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America's Small Businesses Get the Shaft AGAIN

How the Stimulus Bill Won't Stimulate Job Growth, But What Can Boldly Be Done Next

As important as the new American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 is to helping us get back to some sense of "normalcy" as a country, the sector that regularly produces between 60% and 80% of all new jobs in America will only marginally benefit. I'm talking about America's small business owners and entrepreneurs. They're the real losers from the recently passed stimulus bill, and it's unfortunate for our economy. Sure, there were some tweaks to the existing SBA loan programs (which I've been advocating for nearly 7 years), but these changes will only produce slight improvements to the small business lending arena to get valuable capital flowing again. I view the ARRA as Phase I – essentially a finger in the dyke of economic decline and stagnation – but much more is needed.

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