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  Douglas Graham/CQ Roll Call via Getty Images Goodlatte at a town hall meeting When the Senate passed the Marketplace Fairness Act in May, a major point of contention was language exempting some small businesses from collecting sales tax on out-of-state transactions. The law said businesses with more than $1 million in annual revenue would have […]
  Posted on June 5, 2017 by Nick in Policy
  Photograph by Spencer Platt/Getty Images An amusement ride stands near the destroyed boardwalk on Sept. 13 in Seaside Heights, N.J. An earlier version of this story ran online. Bob Stewart has spent nearly half a century working on the boardwalk in South Jersey's Seaside Heights and Seaside Park. Last October's Hurricane Sandy wrecked his latest […]
  The Shutdown's Ripples Are Already Frustrating Small Businesses
  Posted on May 24, 2017 by Nick in Policy
  Photograph by Angela Wyant/Getty Images Yolanda Lewis remembers the days leading up to the government shutdown in 1995 as a frustrating time. Her company, San Jose-based Innovative Resources, had a contract to provide janitorial services to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington. "We didn't know if our contract was going to be deemed non-essential, […]
  A VC Firm Tests the Limits of the New General Solicitation Rule
  Posted on May 16, 2017 by Nick in Policy
  Photograph by Michael Nagle/Bloomberg John Frankel, founder and partner at ff Venture Capital, speaks at the Bloomberg Next Big Thing Summit in New York on Sept. 16 Back in July, the Securities and Exchange Commission passed rules that eased 80-year-old limits on how startups, venture capital firms, and other private investment vehicles can market themselves […]
  Goldman Sachs Wants to Give Main Street Free Online Training
  Posted on May 5, 2017 by Nick in Policy
  Photograph by Jin Lee/Bloomberg Goldman Sachs's headquarters in New York In the fall of 2009, with Goldman Sachs's (GS) image battered by the financial crisis, the investment bank teamed with Warren Buffett and some well-regarded nonprofits to provide capital and entrepreneurship education to thousands of small businesses. If the project felt like a play for […]