The Venture Edge

As a slave to Fox News, I constantly hear that the government -- particularly the current administration -- is anti-business and anti-jobs. While I don't personally know if this particular administration is any more anti-business or anti-jobs than any of its predecessors, the business climate does vary from state to state within the Union. Always has, always will. This fact was backed up by a recent survey of more than 500 U.S. CEOs polled by Chief Executive magazine. 

Many businesses today get a significant portion of their business via the Internet. And how do customers find these businesses? Often via a search on google.com. But guess what? Google recently made a change to their complex mathematical search algorithm --  a change that has sent many businesses from the top of the search rankings down to the very bottom. And for those businesses in this situation, the resulting dive in product sales has turned out to be a very unpleasant surprise indeed.

With only a few weeks until a very important mid-term election, Peter and I decided to focus our next several posts on critical political and regulatory issues impacting entrepreneurs and small businesses for the foreseeable future. We’re not going to take political sides but rather deal with the truth—just the facts, folks. Let me start by saying that uncertainty is clearly the word of the day and the entrepreneurs and business owners I talk to around the country are all singing the same tune—no major commitments until we know where things are going.