The Top 4 Biggest Growth Opportunities for Small Businesses

whitePaper | June 21, 2021

As an entrepreneur, starting a new business is exciting. Backed by the support of a close-knit team, you face new challenges every day and you put in the hours to make your business work. But your time may be taken up by rote tasks, leaving you less time to acquire new prospects and care for your existing customer relationships.

whitePaper | April 12, 2021

Small businesses (those with less than 20 employees) make up nearly 98% of all Australian businesses. Responding to the COVID-19 crisis has presented small businesses with new challenges, and there is evidence that many are looking to alternative solutions for survival in the longer term. This paper presents recent evidence which can be summed up as a focus on business innovation, flexibility, and agility.

whitePaper | November 30, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, technological disruption, socioeconomic stratification and related social unrest as well as changing expectations about business have all proven in different ways that we are at a crossroad. The role of business in this context is now widely understood. However, most of the attention and headlines focus on initiatives from large multinationals and industry leaders, while small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are only sporadically recognized and often neglected as major drivers of economic activity, as well as social and environmental progress around the world.

whitePaper | January 31, 2023

The Department’s small business programs, activities, and workforce are distributed across the Military Services, Defense Agencies, and field activities (DoD Components), including Components of the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD).

whitePaper | December 7, 2019

As a small or medium business professional, chances are you’ve heard about phishing. Phishing scams—ploys that cybercriminals use to trick unsuspecting people into revealing sensitive information and steal their identities—are a serious problem for both consumers and business owners. In fact, over the last five years, there has been a steady increase in attacks targeting businesses with less than 250 employees, with 43 percent of all attacks targeted at small businesses in 2015.1 But phishing attacks aren’t only targeting businesses, they’re also targeting employees in order to gain access to a business’ sensitive data. The number of spear phishing campaigns targeting employees increased by 55 percent in 2015.2

whitePaper | April 28, 2022

Through the American Rescue Plan and the equitable implementation of emergency relief programs, President Biden and Vice President Harris fostered the strongest recovery for Main Street on record. In 2021, Americans applied to start 5.4 million new businesses—more than 20 percent higher than any previous year on record.