SBA 504 Loan Program Information

In today's edition of The Wall Street Journal, there is an article titled “A Plea for Direct Lending to Small Businesses” which you can read in full by going here. The article focuses on the two sides of the debate on proposed legislation that calls for the SBA to help business owners find willi. […] read more

I know that elections aren't until November, but I think right now is the perfect time to start learning about the candidates we'll be voting for later this year. That's why I decided to host an Open House last week and invite the Congressional candidates from Florida's 24th District - - the one MCC. […] read more

If you've been “following” us for a while, you know we have a healthy sense of humor and may even be a little irreverent sometimes. After we released our parody of the hit-show, The Office, last year (which if you haven't seen it, or if you'd like to watch it again - - and [...] read more

Humbly, my very first “official” job after graduate school in the mid-90s was working as a temp for a few weeks doing “clipping work.” What I mean by “clipping work” is that I was the on-staff clipping “service” for all things of interest to my employer. Full disclosure: I got paid (. […] read more

In my blog post yesterday about President Obama's latest small business initiatives (which you ought to read if you haven't yet) I mentioned how I was writing it in my hotel room in New York City overlooking Central Park and Columbus Circle. Below is a picture of how the corner of Central Park looke. […] read more

I flew into New York City early yesterday afternoon and met with Marshall Eckblad, the national banking reporter for Dow Jones (owners of the Wall Street Journal, Barron's, SmartMoney, and others). And after getting his personal tour of the Dow Jones offices (including seeing the wall of Pulitzer Pr. […] read more

This probably comes as no surprise to you, but I'd like to share my thoughts on President Obama's first State of Union Address that was delivered just a little over a week ago. For the sake of time (both yours and mine), I'm going to restrict the majority of my comments to the President's [...] read more

In case you missed it (and there's a good chance you did), I was on FOX Business News late Friday afternoon. I found out that I would be on FOX's Happy Hour show earlier that same day, while I was out of the office at a day-long meeting, so I didn't have much time [...] read more

So it's been a little while since I've blogged about something political, but it's kind of hard to overlook what occurred one week ago today in Massachusetts. And no, I'm not going to get politically dogmatic here in today's post . . . those of you who've been reading what I write for a [...] read more

Now that the holidays are over and we're into the New Year, we can really get down to business. You and I both know that 2009 was a tough year . . . and I don't know about you, but I'm bound and determined to make 2010 an absolutely GREAT year. If you go back [...] read more