Comments on: The real problem with Davos: not enough focus on small business

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By: Time for a diverse Davos at Interactive Knowhow

Time for a diverse Davos at Interactive Knowhow — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:18:33 +0000

[...] Scoble complains that there wasn’t enough focus on small businesses, but then, maybe that’s no surprise in an arena where big business dominates the invite [...]

By: How Can We Help Small Business When There Is A Big Hole In The Roof? at BLNW blog

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:08:40 +0000

[...] Robert Scoble has been at Davos, one of the most exclusive events in the world. Robert is one of the world’ most well known bloggers. He goes to a lot of events – a lot of geek tech events. But Davos is different. It’s that kind of an event where you get a mix of heads of state and leaders from the worlds of business, non-profits and more so now, the blogging geek, web crowd. (BTW: Interesting post by Mike Arrington about how Davos used Facebook during the conference.) [...]

By: Lachony

Lachony — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 08:01:09 +0000

In a small business people are more involved, and should be more productive. And al the small or micro business owners aren’t counted amongst the unemployed, even if they hardly make enough money to live.

By: Anita Campbell

Anita Campbell — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 01:14:57 +0000

Neither the bailout nor the current stimulus package under consideration do anything for small businesses except raise their taxes.

And while I can feel for Andrew Fields and the pressures he must be going through, I do not believe his situation is typical of most small businesses and it would be a mistake to assume that. It sounds to me more like circumstances are affecting his particular industry. A lot of independent printers are being squeezed by changes in the industry, such as the lower costs of powerful color inkjet printers that people use for DIY-printing in their offices, the move to electronic and away from print, and other macro-trends.

The problem if you start bailing out individual industries is that (1) you can’t help every industry, and (2) very likely efforts to help one industry negatively impact others, either by raising taxes, raising prices, etc. Because in the words of Paul Simon, “One man’s ceiling is another man’s floor.”

The best idea I’ve heard so far for helping small businesses across the board directly — and immediately — is waiver of payroll taxes for a 6-month period. That might have some effect on employment and directly benefit millions of small businesses — at least the 6+ million small businesses that have employees. And it may help those 21+ million without employees who may be spurred to hire if it is less costly to hire, via waiver of payroll taxes.

Good discussion, Robert. Thanks for raising it.

By: Andy Freeman

Andy Freeman — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:56:42 +0000

> Agreed. But
> Agreed again, but

Part of the answer is to not “help” small biz by doing things that end up hurting them.

The other part of the answer is to stop doing things that hurt small biz.

The problem is that regulation and programs have advocates and a constituency, folks who are on the teat or hoping to be. Folks who are directly harmed have other things to do and frequently get blindsided. Folks who are indirectly harmed (folks who don’t get jobs or cool products) don’t even see what’s going on.