An Ad Man's Foray Into 'Green' Media

Entrepreneurs Tap Social Networks

Entrepreneurs are tapping their social networks for funding via "crowdfunding" sites that allow businesses to raise money collectively toward a monetary goal.

Green Consulting Tops List of Hot Sectors

Environmental advice is a booming industry expected to outperform all other small- and midsize-business sectors in 2011, according to IBISWorld research firm.

Small-Business Groups Parse Deal

Advocates for entrepreneurs welcome an extension of Bush-era tax cuts. But the package lacks other key measures.

• Vote: How will deal affect small businesses?

5 Year-End Tax-Planning Moves for Business Owners

This December, end-of-year planning is made even more complicated by tax uncertainty. Keep the focus on what's known rather than what's not, advises Barbara Weltman.

Questions Over Plan to Boost Lending

The Obama administration's latest attempt to jump-start small-business lending is facing headwinds even before it launches.

• Factiva Search: Non-Bank Lending

Smaller Firms Still Hesitant to Hire

U.S. small businesses continued to hire in November. But job growth remains modest compared with prerecession years, and many entrepreneurs say they plan to hold back for some time to come.

Enterprise Dispatch

This week: Bid to boost small-business lending in China, and early stage start-up valuations continue to fatten up.

Few New Businesses, With Even Fewer Jobs

Fewer new businesses are getting off the ground in the U.S., available data suggest, a development that could cloud the prospects for job growth and innovation.

• Audio: Why Startups Aren't Forming
• A Global Business, Without U.S. Workers
• Shortage of Capital Costs Firm
• Banks Remain Ambivalent on SMB Lending

When Home Is Where the Office Is

For more than half of U.S. entrepreneurs, home is where the office is. Still, starting a business from home isn't ideal -- or even possible -- for every entrepreneur.