Strong and vibrant small businesses are a key to a healthy economy. Small businesses respond well to customer needs and allow an economy to adapt easily to changing circumstance. In addition, small businesses provide a major portion of employment in the U.S. economy: in 1994, businesses with fewer than 100 employees provided 55 percent of all jobs in the nation.1 Of course, some states are more...

Cloud computing technology is providing businesses, be it micro, small, medium, and large scale enterprises with the same level playing grounds. Small and Medium enterprises (SMEs) that have adopted the cloud are taking their businesses to greater heights with the competitive edge that cloud computing offers. The limitations faced by (SMEs) in procuring and maintaining IT infrastructures has be...

S mall businesses are a critical feature of the U.S. political and economic landscape. Businesses with fewer than 500 employees account for almost half of all gross revenues generated by U.S. businesses, employ half of all private-sector workers, and generate between 60 and 80 percent of net new jobs. Many policymakers, interested in supporting small businesses and entrepreneurship, have been c...

the best deal. Nowhere is more real than today business environment which affect the success or otherwise of any business venture. Several authors have attributed failure of businesses particularly small and medium scale enterprises to various factors ranging from training of the entrepreneur to exposure and experience while some analysts opined that business environment could impact on small a...