4 votes
Part of the problem entreprenuers have is that of access to funding and start up capital and I suggest that entreprenuers with same ideas should join resources,expertise together,that way they have a better opportunity of getting access to fund easily.
3 votes
have an "agree" button and a "disagree" button HERE, and tally both results. It could be a lot more informative, on this very site.
2 votes
Address website barriers and complications for CCR, HubZone, and all other government database registrations pertinent to small business. The public and trained business counselors struggle with the constantly changing and often broken sites on a daily basis. Some are almost impossible to use.
1 vote
My company is (or was) a HUBZone Certified Small Business Concern. My company lost some contracts and so, I had to terminate employees because I could no longer afford to pay them. However, in doing so, my company dropped below the required 35% staffing of HUBZone employees. We did recover to above the 35% level within a reasonable time-frame and are currently compliant. However, we may be decertified because we were ...more »
My company is (or was) a HUBZone Certified Small Business Concern. My company lost some contracts and so, I had to terminate employees because I could no longer afford to pay them. However, in doing so, my company dropped below the required 35% staffing of HUBZone employees. We did recover to above the 35% level within a reasonable time-frame and are currently compliant. However, we may be decertified because we were not CONSISTANTLY in compliance with the 35% criteria. I suggest that we and others be given a 12 month grace period to once again become fully compliant when sudden drops in revenue demands a reduction in force. A small business cannot afford to have people paid that are not generating revenue as some large businesses can and even budget for such.
Please hear my request and support the real and honest small business owner. Let me hear your response...
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1 vote
Make regulators perform their work in a timely manner, make all oversight have a time limit and base those limits on effectively getting results properly and not messing up the businesses being regulated WITH DELAYS. Businesses that aren't disobeying rules shouldn't expect to have delay of payments due to government regulatory inefficiencies and those that do break regulations should be dealt with and removed from eligibility ...more »
Make regulators perform their work in a timely manner, make all oversight have a time limit and base those limits on effectively getting results properly and not messing up the businesses being regulated WITH DELAYS. Businesses that aren't disobeying rules shouldn't expect to have delay of payments due to government regulatory inefficiencies and those that do break regulations should be dealt with and removed from eligibility for government contracts asap. Why punish the good for the deeds of the bad, it's stupid and lazy. Let's end that.
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1 vote
Help us get the barriers to rehabilitate our government energy use policies. We need to have the governments utility bill off the citizen's backs. Installing Solar hot water assist on all buildings, solar electric assist, horizontal wind turbines, we could reduce the tax burden instead of cutting services, we'd be able to provide more for less money and the solution would be PERMANENT. It would create a ton of private ...more »
Help us get the barriers to rehabilitate our government energy use policies.
We need to have the governments utility bill off the citizen's backs.
Installing Solar hot water assist on all buildings, solar electric assist, horizontal wind turbines, we could reduce the tax burden instead of cutting services, we'd be able to provide more for less money and the solution would be PERMANENT. It would create a ton of private sector jobs!
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8 votes
Consider how many Americans there are who have viable, patentable inventions but cannot afford to get international patent rights. If the gov. reduced such barrier and actually helped such innovators protect their new products, these could be manufactured and/or sold internationally and tremendously strengthen our national economy while reducing the trade deficit.
0 votes
The EDA has released a request for proposal for a grant that encourages regional competitiveness by the formation of business clusters designed to create new businesses and therefore jobs. Let's encourage professors of public universities to participate in clusters. In exchange for their participation they could qualify for tenure benefits or stock options. Eliminate their demand for direct hourly compensation since ...more »
The EDA has released a request for proposal for a grant that encourages regional competitiveness by the formation of business clusters designed to create new businesses and therefore jobs. Let's encourage professors of public universities to participate in clusters. In exchange for their participation they could qualify for tenure benefits or stock options. Eliminate their demand for direct hourly compensation since they are already compensated with public debt funds.
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1 vote
Why not use the $850 million dollars of unemployment funds that the Department of Labor has just released to California as workfare to help start and grow new businesses - as described in the National Strategy for New Business and Job Creation. http://bit.ly/h7iIEI
3 votes
I suggest that the answer to increasing jobs is to use existing technology to continue to increase productivity in the manufacturing area and put American workers in a position where we can compete in a global economy. Americans need to out produce workers in all other countries. The law of supply and demand will determine the market for labor and products.
4 votes
Make it easier for startups and small businesses to secure Friends and Family funding through equity financing - we shouldn't have to create a PPM for this like it's an angel round. It's crucial to early bootstrapping...
4 votes
I suggest that you create the Made Local Sold Global Initiative that will create community manufacturing kitchens. American's can create products from their family recipes and share world wide. This program will create jobs, strengthen entrepreneurial spirit and local products made in the USA. Jobs will be in the form of manufacturing, supplies, labels, culinary positions, shipping and much, much more. Pickle Best, ...more »
I suggest that you create the Made Local Sold Global Initiative that will create community manufacturing kitchens. American's can create products from their family recipes and share world wide. This program will create jobs, strengthen entrepreneurial spirit and local products made in the USA. Jobs will be in the form of manufacturing, supplies, labels, culinary positions, shipping and much, much more. Pickle Best, Jenny & Ashlee of Miss Jenny's Pickles, Kernersville, NC
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8 votes
Provide all federal procurement/contracting office, small business office including SBA, and senior leadership across all agencies training on "effectively removing barriers impacting small business success."
3 votes
Include in the performance standards for all federal procurement/contracting office, small business office including SBA, and senior leadership across all agencies the requirement "effectively removes barriers impacting small business success."
2 votes
I suggest
co-operative Small Business.
the idea is that people who has any kind of social relations(family,friends,co-workers etc) can co-operate in starting a Small Business as a partners and they can create more jobs for themselves and other Citizens.
1 vote
Take a look at sites/platforms like Quirky.com and Kickstarter.com. It looks like the private sector has taken over when the gov. is still treading water.
0 votes
Effect of Size Standards on the Erosion of the Mid-Level Companies. In recent years, mid-size firms, by virtue of being neither small enough nor large enough to successfully compete, have consistently and considerably seen their share of the market decline, according to Gregory Sanders et al.’s report Structure and Dynamics of the U.S. Federal Professional Services Industrial Base 1995-2009 (see figure 3-14, Sanders et ...more »
Effect of Size Standards on the Erosion of the Mid-Level Companies. In recent years, mid-size firms, by virtue of being neither small enough nor large enough to successfully compete, have consistently and considerably seen their share of the market decline, according to Gregory Sanders et al.’s report Structure and Dynamics of the U.S. Federal Professional Services Industrial Base 1995-2009 (see figure 3-14, Sanders et al., 47). The Executive Summary of the report finds that:
“[I]t is clear that those in the middle tier have suffered an erosion of their relative share. In 1995, middle-tier companies captured 40 percent of the total value of federal professional services contracts. By 2009, the middle-tier companies were able to capture only 30 percent of that value. At the same time, (…) [s]mall companies have sustained a 19–22 percent market share in the value of prime contracts. The large companies in this industry have been particularly active via mergers and acquisitions and have been able to increase their market share from 41 percent of the total market in 1995 to 48 percent in 2009. Thus, the middle tier has been squeezed from above by consolidation and from below by the slight growth in small contractors’ share of the market” (Sanders et al. XV).
The report concludes: “Traditionally, mid-tier companies have served as a conduit for new ideas and improved business practices. Policymakers must determine whether a robust middle tier of services companies is important or desirable for the federal marketplace. If so, current incentives for companies to enter and remain in this mid-market level must be revisited.” (Sanders et al. 53)
Because small business size standards are not updated very often, this is an ideal time to re-look at these size standards in light of the erosion of the mid-tier firms.
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1 vote
Increase periods of performance and/or award terms for small business contracts to allow small business time to mature and grow.
Moving towards shorter periods of performance, as the DOD is doing now, will not increase competition and lower costs. It will only increase costs and make it more difficult for small businesses to grow.
1 vote
Have the SBA pay for small business legal cost to defend a size protest. This will encourage the agency to improve it's rules and understanding of how small and large businesses work together to be both profitable and productive suppliers to the government.
1 vote
Remove from federal procurement regulations all "lowest common denominator" type regulations and give small businesses the benefit of the doubt. Ensure that federal procurement regulation actually achieve the intent behind the rule.
1 vote
Develop strategies to ease burdens and enable small business government contractors to take their lessons learned from working with the government into commercial markets.
1 vote
Spend more effort on removing regulations from the FAR/DFAR than the effort spent adding to them and trying to manage government contracts according to them. Have government agencies apply common sense and sound ethics vice the present level of reliance placed upon the FAR/DFAR driven bureaucracy.
4 votes
Fix or do away with the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA). They are unable to perform audits in a competent and timely manner delaying payment of hundreds of millions of dollars to small business.
1 vote
Limit federal employment to no more than 20 years of service for employees without commerical work experience. Require all federal procurement/contracting office, small business office including SBA, and senior leadership across all agencies to have a minimum of 5 years of commercial/industry experience.
3 votes
Your agency’s Office of Hearings and Appeals will not review an appeal where the contract has been awarded [13 C.F.R 121.1101(b)]. To correct the errors an SBA size determination in such a case the small business must proceed to Federal District Court (and incur additional legal expenses). In dismissing an appeal without review, the SBA lost accountability for its personnel who made the size determination and put additional ...more »
Your agency’s Office of Hearings and Appeals will not review an appeal where the contract has been awarded [13 C.F.R 121.1101(b)]. To correct the errors an SBA size determination in such a case the small business must proceed to Federal District Court (and incur additional legal expenses). In dismissing an appeal without review, the SBA lost accountability for its personnel who made the size determination and put additional costs on small business.
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