Small-business owners sounded off yesterday on a surprisingly complex question: What is a small business? Billions of federal dollars ride on the answer, money awarded under a decades-old quota system ...

Most of the employment pundits put their money on small businesses and startups to hire our way out of the recession and the prophecy appears to be materializing. It's still a bumpy road, but small ...

Small businesses are private corporations, partnerships or sole proprietorships that meet revenue or employee standards, as defined by the SBA. Many, or all, of the products featured on this page are ...

You've seen "small business" abbreviated as SB. You've seen "small and mid-sized businesses" abbreviated as SMBs. But you can be forgiven for seeing the acronym SME and wondering how you're ever going ...