CSBJ Daily

Small Business Television – SBTV.com – has become a media partner to the Service Corps of Retired Executives, which counsels small business owners toward success.
The two entities will interview SCORE clients for feature podcasts, and SBTV.com will include SCORE information in its daily news broadcast, which reaches 40,000 viewers, and SCORE […]

There’s a plan afoot to open a hookah bar at 22 E. Bijou St. – but some neighboring businesses don’t like the idea, and city planners aren’t sure what they can do about it.Sam Ayaad wants to open the bar, called Downtown Hookah. A hookah is a multi-stemmed water pipe that allows four or more […]

As the economy began to slow last year, large corporations were forced to rely on internally generated money instead of outside investments, but small businesses were forced to seek more loans.
During 2007, small businesses received 13.7 percent more “micro loans,” those less than $100,000. Such loans also increased in total dollar […]

DENVER – The Vectra Bank Colorado Small Business Index for Colorado registered 87 during April, down from a revised 89.6 during March.
“The latest report on U.S. GDP had both good and bad news with the same piece of data,” said Jeff Thredgold, corporate economist for Vectra Bank Colorado. “The bad news […]

The Small Business Administration is offering state and local governments a template for resolving regulatory enforcement issues involving small businesses by establishing their own versions of SBA’s Office of the National Ombudsman.
The National Ombudsman’s primary mission is to help small businesses when they experience excessive or unfair federal regulatory enforcement […]

The Small Business Administration wants to establish a new e-commerce portal to help expand credit availability for businesses and give lenders increased access to potential small business customers.
SBA has issued a request for information from potential vendors about setting up a sustainable online lending portal to connect small business loan applicants with […]

Consultant and nonprofit executive Greg Lopez is the new U.S. Small Business Administration director for Colorado.
He succeeds Patricia Barela Rivera who retired after almost 11 years. Lopez will start the job in mid April.
Lopez has served as president and CEO of The Rocky Mountain Minority Supplier Development Council, as a board member […]

The Small Business Administration released a reformatted standard operating procedure handbook for lender and development company loan programs this week.
The revised document, SOP 50 10, has been cut from 1,000 pages to 400 and is also now available at www.sba.gov.
“Re-writing an SOP doesn’t sound glamorous, but it is one of the most […]

A group of business owners told the House of Representatives yesterday that federal procedures for government contracts make it difficult for small businesses to compete.
Business owners said the new contracting systems place a premium on speed rather than value.
“With less than 20 percent of federal contracts going to small business across […]

The Small Business Administration launched a free online course this week, titled “Business Opportunities: A Guide to Winning Federal Contracts.”
Designed for small businesses, small firms in underserved markets and women entrepreneurs, the Business Opportunities online course provides information about the $400 billion federal markets, contract rules and how to sell […]