Businesses throughout the small business development program learned about embedded chips, tested for Y2K problems, and established contingency plans.
Such programs include those offered by local Small Business Administration offices, chambers of commerce, and small business development centers.
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Work with the Small Business Development Centers in your local area and the many other ventures designed to support entrepreneurs.
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The U.S. Small Business Administration and the roughly 1, 000 Small Business Development Centers around the country are also excellent resources.
The aim of the joint effort is to link 100, 000 Americans over age 50 with small business development resources, including workshops, conferences and mentoring programs.
The company also said it plans to offset the mine-job cuts by creating the same number of jobs focused on housing and small business development in areas, including Rustenburg.
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The company said it would balance the 14, 000 mining jobs that it plans to shed by creating a similar number of new jobs in housing, infrastructure and small business development.
These blinders led policymakers and agencies to pay little attention to small business development, despite SMEs being recognized as having higher importance to economic developments in southern Europe than in other European countries.
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Congress tried to facilitate the process back in 1999 when it passed the Veterans Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development Act, dedicated to redressing what it calls a lack of appropriate services for veteran entrepreneurs.
Mr Kingon added that Northern Ireland's business sector and the new economic development agency Invest Northern Ireland - being created to replaced the small business funder LEDU and the Industrial Development Board - faced a difficult year.
Through its 10, 000 Small Businesses Initiative, Goldman is tackling urban development by equipping promising small business owners with the tools they need to expand their businesses.
Paul, Minnesota, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Donovan will meet with small business owners and area residents at the new Frogtown Square development.
These include the Economic Development Administration, the Small Business Administration, the 10 federal job training programs, and many more.
Footfall is a Facebook game that has been designed to teach teenagers about running a small start-up business, encouraging entrepreneurial skills development and financial literacy.
It has worked with the Federation of Small Business to update planning policy to facilitate economic development and further changes to the planning system to promote economic development are currently out to consultation.
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But it has also arguably left large parts of the European small business sector under-capitalized and impeded the development of a healthy market for corporate control, holding back economies such as Italy in an age when scale matters.
This development can play a vital role in spurring small business growth and hiring, which remains one of our country's most important issues.
Joining the Vice President at the announcement were Nancy Sutley, Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, Steven Chu, Secretary of Energy, Hilda Solis, Secretary of Labor, Shaun Donovan, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and Karen Mills, Administrator of the Small Business Administration.
The workshop is a small business supported by the U.S.-based nonprofit Appropriate Infrastructure Development Group.
Dunham worked with a provincial development office that provided small loans, and education in bookkeeping and business, to craftsmen and small businesses, and she helped encourage lending to women.
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She has previous experience as a teacher and small business owner, and serves on North Carolina's Local Government Commission, and Economic Development Board.
Meanwhile, a survey of small businesses backed by the Scottish Council for Development and Industry (SCDI) and Strathclyde Business School has found that only 10% of respondents made extensive use of digital technology and had a clear digital strategy to support their internationalisation.
While I started in product management at Xoom, I quickly shifted into business development, traveling all over the world setting up partnerships with banks big and small.
Proceeds go to the Opportunity Finance Network, a nonprofit organization that supports hundreds of Community Development Financial Institutions, local organizations that lend money at low interest rates to small business owners in under-served areas.
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Gathered around the table on a monthly basis are the president of the Chamber of Commerce, the President of the University, the school district superintendents, county commissioners, the mayor, the president of the technology college, successful business leaders, both large and small, bankers, entrepreneurs, a spokesman for local military base, area economic development directors, and local angel investors and venture capitals.
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