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Who is Really Small Business Friendly?

A Thumbtack.com survey of 7,000 small businesses, highlights who’s really on the side of the small business owners. The question is not, are we friendly to small business, but how can we be friendlier?  Although this is a common refrain of business and political leaders across the US, the new Thumbtack.com Small Business Survey shows [...]

Small Business Continues to Fuel Debate at the 2012 Election

How has healthcare impacted your small business? Vote now: Once again, small business was a hot topic at last night’s debate. Although small business wasn’t one of the topics that got the candidates really riled up like energy or Libya, Romney kept his laser focus on the economy from the first debate. He repeatedly reeled off [...]

Obama vs. Romney: How do we Tax Small Business?

During the first debate of the 2012 presidentail election, Romney and Obama went head to head on an important matter to small business owners: taxation. Small businesses continue to ask – What’s in it for us? The first presidential debate in the 2012 election will be remembered mostly for the contrast of an aggressive, disciplined Romney [...]

Will Politicians Embrace Small Business After the 2012 Election?

Small business is a hot topic in the 2012 election, but will politicians forget about small business owners after they vote? The only constituencies getting more love than small businesses this election season are puppies and newborns. In fact, some of the old political tactics of kissing babies and kowtowing to seniors have been largely replaced by [...]

How Will Small Businesses Vote in the 2012 Election?

The decisions that small business owners make at the voting booth this November will determine the future success of their business. Violent protests in Libya, science–resisting Senate candidates in Missouri and Clint Eastwood’s improvised stand up routine are only passing diversions this election season. The main issue has been, and will continue to be, the [...]

Leap Year Season Two Episode Ten: How to Bite

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This entry is part 11 of 11 in the series Watch Leap Year Season TwoHiscox Commentary on Small Business Insurance Now this is where the C3D team is at their best – all working together against a common (and real) foe. It’s all a team effort, so when Aaron neglects his critical task to try [...]

Leap Year Season Two Episode Nine: What We’re Capable Of

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This entry is part 10 of 11 in the series Watch Leap Year Season TwoHiscox Commentary on Small Business Insurance Well, that didn’t work out exactly as they planned. Bryn’s power move to kidnap June Pepper and get her to divulge the location of their prototypes didn’t get them any closer to the truth. Turns [...]

Is your business playing chicken?

What happens when your brand gets tied to the latest social movement? There’s only one Chick-fil-A in New York state. It’s hidden within the NYU campus a few blocks south of my apartment and closed for the summer. I’ll never go there. It’s not because of their CEO’s stance on gay marriage, there are just [...]

Leap Year Season Two Episode Eight: Behind the Hologram

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This entry is part 9 of 11 in the series Watch Leap Year Season TwoHiscox Commentary on Small Business Insurance Maybe Olivia actually learned something about marketing from her paramour, the Livefy CEO, after all. Turns out she was secretly filming the C3D team and posting their startup adventures as a new online series – [...]

Leap Year Season Two Episode Seven: A Moment of Weakness

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This entry is part 8 of 11 in the series Watch Leap Year Season TwoHiscox Commentary on Small Business Insurance A scorned woman, a programmer with dual personalities, a rival executive literally in the closet and a double-crossing brother. That’s a good foundation for a Greek tragedy or a modern day telenovela, or the current [...]

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