Sell My Green Business

The fee waiver and expanded guaranty levels for SBA 7(a) loans have once again been extended, this time until March 28.  New approvals begin March 10.  Efforts continue to extend the stimulus benefits through the end of 2010.
Here is the full release:
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama signed legislation Tuesday extending until March 28 the U.S. [...]

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WASHINGTON – SBA issued the following statement today from Administrator Karen Mills regarding efforts to ensure continued funding for two key provisions in the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA) of 2009:
“SBA’s most popular ARRA provisions – the increased guarantee and reduced fees in the two largest lending programs – have helped engineer a significant [...]

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From the Free Lance-Star, Fredericksburg, Virginia Fredericksburg.com
The Leyland cypress trees outside Diane and Ted Clark’s Fredericksburg home provided a nice privacy fence.
But the trees proved no match for the Feb. 5-6 storm, the second one this winter that dumped more than a foot of snow on the region.
The storm knocked down at least six [...]

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Excerpts of President Obama’s Comments in New Hampshire:
“… And we’re going to start where most new jobs start — with small businesses.  These are the companies that begin in basements and garages when an entrepreneur takes a chance on his dream, or a worker decides it’s time she becomes her own boss.  They’re companies like [...]

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Service businesses and restaurants lead the recovery as business-for-sale closed transaction prices return to levels not seen since mid-2008
San Francisco, CA – January 7, 2010 – According to today’s BizBuySell.com Insight Report, closed business-for-sale transactions declined by 28 percent in 2009, but a recovery that began mid-year continued to gain momentum in the Fourth [...]

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2009 was definitely a down year for mergers & acquisitions within the green industry – and for just about every other industry as well.  The twin specters of economic uncertainty and an often extremely challenging credit market caused the number of transactions to fall both out of necessity and out of caution.
That being said, many [...]

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WASHINGTON – The U.S. Small Business Administration is proposing increases in the size definitions for three broad commercial sectors. The proposed increases cover size standards for 71 different types of businesses, two-thirds of them in retail trade sectors. The rest are in accommodations and food services, and other services. [...]

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