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Small Talk: Retiring boomers driving sales of small businesses

Sat, 18 May 2013 01:01:08 MDT

Small Talk: Retiring boomers driving sales of small businesses

by Joyce M. Rosenberg The Associated Press

Published May 18, 2013 01:01AM MDT

Baby boomers preparing for retirement are driving a surge in small business sales, as they find more and more buyers confident enough in the improving economy to expand their own businesses through acquisitions. In the first three months of this year, the number of sales that closed jumped 56 percent from the same time in 2012, according to BizBuySell.com, an online marketplace for small businesses. Retirement was the No. 1 contributor to business sales in the fourth quarter of last year and th...

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Small Talk: Businesses may get sticker shock on health care

Sat, 04 May 2013 01:01:07 MDT

Small Talk: Businesses may get sticker shock on health care

by Joyce M. Rosenberg The Associated Press

Published May 4, 2013 01:01AM MDT

Small-business owners may be experiencing sticker shock now that insurers are revealing the rates they want to charge under the new health care law. So far, in Rhode Island, insurers are requesting premium increases of up to 14 percent for small-business coverage when the Affordable Care Act is fully effective Jan. 1. They’re also in double digits in Maryland. Small businesses, especially those that are required, for the first time, to start providing coverage under the Affordable Care Act hav...

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Small Talk: Crowdfunding may be more bust than windfall

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 01:01:07 MDT

Small Talk: Crowdfunding may be more bust than windfall

by Joyce M. Rosenberg The Associated Press

Published Apr 27, 2013 01:01AM MDT

Small businesses looking for a windfall of investor money from crowdfunding may find that it’s more of a bust. President Barack Obama and members of Congress have touted a law that makes crowdfunding, a method of soliciting money over the Internet, as a way for startups and other small companies to raise money and create jobs. A year after the law was passed as part of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups, or JOBS, Act, entrepreneurs wanting to raise as much as $1 million annually from online in...