Starting and sustaining a small business has never been easy. Yet their economic contributions are essential to our nation’s prosperity since small businesses create two out of three new jobs and generate income for more than 50 percent of working Americans. In September, the Congressional Research Service (CRS) reaffirmed these small business job numbers, but…
Small businesses are as diverse as the consumers they serve. They also face many of the same challenges about how to spend, save, borrow and plan. Which is why, at Intuit, we believe it’s important to closely understand and study customer pains, which in turn leads to deep customer empathy. As the head of Intuit’s…
Global markets can be critical to the local success of small businesses and technology, private sector advisors, and governments have a role to play in enabling their journeys. Technology powers the global opportunity Entrepreneurs are finding that their businesses can be global, even at very early stages, thanks to technology. Kavita Shukla, founder of Maryland-based…
On April 17th, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case of South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc. In this case, the Court will decide whether it should overturn the physical-presence limitation established in the 1992 case, Quill Corp. v. North Dakota. In that case, a previous court held that the Constitution’s Commerce…
Within the next five years, as many as four in 10 workers in the United States are expected to be self-employed, due in part to millions of Americans joining the ranks of what is being called the “sharing economy.” That’s the finding of a new labor market study conducted by Emergent Research that predicts that more…
On Thursday, November 19th, keynote speakers, Sen. Mark Warner and Rep. Peter Roskam, spoke at a Capitol Hill symposium focused on the trends and public policy ramifications of the new, emerging workforce driving the sharing economy. Hosted by the Kogod Tax Policy Center at American University, and sponsored by the Intuit Tax and Financial Center,…
Intuit’s Director of Government Relations, Melissa Netram, participated in a panel about whether and how to regulate new marketplaces, including the on-demand economy. The panel was part of the TAP Conference, an event in New York City devoted to discussing the opportunities and challenges facing mobile commerce. TAP Conference 2015 (#TAPCON) –The Role of Regulation…
Starting and sustaining a small business has never been easy. And without access to financing and working capital, it’s all but impossible. Businesses large and small, young and old, need access to cash and credit to fund operations, build inventories and bridge the gaps between billing and payments. Yet for too many entrepreneurs, the ability…
Small businesses are alive and well, thank you. Want evidence? Look no further than the recent QuickBooks Connect conference, where thousands of small business owners, accountants and software developers gathered to learn how to start and grow their businesses. The first-time event sponsored by Intuit attracted people from all walks of life and economic situations…
Driven largely by the rise in the on-demand digital economy, a new kind of self-employed entrepreneur is rapidly being added to the U.S. workforce. Unlike their predecessors, many of today’s newly minted entrepreneurs don’t have storefronts, staffs or even business cards. What they have instead is access to the global marketplace by directly providing services…
