Last month, during Small Business Week, small businesses descended on US Senators’ offices. They signed petitions, wrote letters and emails, even put up billboards. What was all the fuss about? Small businesses were trying to help save open and equal access to the Internet. The US Senate, in a bipartisan vote, tried to do its …
The Worst Month Ever for Small Business
December should be a happy time for small business owners. Your cash registers should be full or you should be enjoying holiday parties. But to borrow a phrase, December, 2017 is going to be small business’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad month. This month, a number of decisions will be made or considered with …
Darth Vader’s Guide to Small Biz & Net Neutrality
Three days after Donald Trump took office, he named Ajit Pai to be the new Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). You probably didn’t take much notice of it. After all, what does the FCC have to do with your small business or startup? As it turns out, the answer is “a whole lot.” …