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Welcome to this week's edition of STRATiCOM's Small Business Weekly Update newsletter. We monitor numerous news feeds, and summarize the important stories for our network of business partners and clients. Hopefully this will be a valuable tool, delivering content relevant to your interests.
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Confidence among U.S. chief executive officers climbed in April to the highest level in three years as corporate leaders increasingly anticipated that the recession will ease, a private survey found.
Venture-capital investing in Midwest-based health care and life-sciences startup companies held its own during the first quarter. (Ann Arbor Business Review, May 5, 2009)
SBA lending in the state is back up to pre-economic-crisis levels, and lenders say incentives in the federal stimulus package are behind the trend, as are historically low interest rates.
(Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal , May 8, 2009)
Dan Laufenberg, Ameriprise Financial's chief economist since 1993, retired last week. A former Federal Reserve researcher and economist, Laufenberg joined the company more than 20 years ago, long before it was called Ameriprise. He was recognized in 2002 as the most accurate economic forecaster among more than 50 economists in the Wall Street Journal's semi-annual forecasting survey. Laufenberg spoke to Nicole Garrison-Sprenger recently about the economy, his career and whether Minnesota's economy is still above average. Here are excerpts: (Pioneer Press, May 8, 2009)
Small-business tax rule No. 1: Don't mess with the IRS. But that doesn't mean you should cheat yourself. Take every legal deduction you can. Here are a dozen that even savvy small-business owners and entrepreneurs sometimes forget. (Bankrate.com, March, 2009)
For laid-off or worried workers, launching a business may seem the best path to survival. Here are the stories of five people who are taking that route-and the lessons they've learned so far.
