Small businesses are the invisible engine that drives both our local and our national economy. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 allocated $730 million to support small businesses. That is 0.05% (yes, I do mean 5/10 of a percent) of the combined bailout total ($700 billion from the Bush administration and [...]
Archive for March, 2009
A Drop in the Bucket
Posted in Economic Recovery, tagged AIG, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, economic stimulus, employ, employment, small b, small business administration on March 16, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Caveat Emptor
Posted in Economic Recovery, tagged advertising, bidding process, economic stimulus, fear tactics, government, opporunities, procurement, RFP, Tier I, Tier II, Tier III on March 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When a business registers on a government’s procurement website to bid on government projects, all of that information becomes part of the public domain. It is then perfectly legal for other businesses to either directly harvest that data, or pay the jurisdiction a fee for access to the data. Every time I have registered any [...]
Economic Recovery Cabinet
Posted in Economic Recovery, tagged Buy Local, Economic Development Strategy, Economic Recovery Cabinet, mayor, PDC, Portland Development Commission, Sam Adams, small business, small business administration, State of the City on March 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Back in early February, Mayor Adams held his first Economic Recovery Cabinet meeting. The invitation list was large and included representatives from academia, chambers of commerce, large employers, developers and builders, organized labor, economists, government and nonprofits, attorneys, representatives from some key sectors, including: finance and banking, creative, manufacturing, entertainment and tourism and high tech, [...]
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