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Forbes | January 01, 2017

Back in the fall, small business advocates were aghast to discover that the U.S. Senate, a champion of small business when it comes to speechifying, had crafted a defense authorization bill that threatened to cut federal government contracts to small companies by as much as a 25 percent. The legislation in question was Section 838 of the annual National Defense Authorization Act, which appeared to allow the Department of Defense to count subcontracts with small businesses on big weapons programs...

Forbes | January 03, 2017

Optimism seems to be abound, economically at least, with a businessman heading for the White House. The Dow has risen and, despite vocal opposition from opponents on many of his decisions, President-elect Trump has been announcing job creation measures even before he has taken the oath of office. For Wall St. and Main St., exciting things are happening. Banks and FinTech companies are using technological advances to improve access to capital, which is the lifeblood for small business growth....

PropTiger | January 10, 2017

Together, the newly merged entity will get fresh funding from global online real estate advertising company REA Group Housing.com’s existing investor Softbank. REA will invest $50 million in the joint entity, while Softbank will infuse another $5 million....

CleanFund | January 10, 2017

CleanFund has built strong relationships in Kansas City with property owners, project developers, and local financial institutions such as Equity Bank, Dougherty Funding, and US Bank CDC, to jointly support the downtown redevelopment of Kansas City with the tools to make renovation projects economically feasible....