Each week on Made in America, Neal gives his insight on the top news stories and their impact on the worlds of entrepreneurship, small business ownership and the overall economy. Unlike other talk hosts or pundits who only look at these issues through the prism of politics, Neal’s analysis takes a non-biased approach based on real life experience in business as an American manufacturer ...
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In 1976, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak decided to go into business assembling computers.
They had no money, but Jobs approached a local computer store, The Byte Shop, that had shown interest in their machine, but only if it came fully assembled. They would pay $500 each for 50 machines upon delivery.
Jobs then took the purchase order that he had been given from the Byte Shop to Cramer Electronics, a national electronic parts distributor, and ordered the components he needed to ...
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As we race toward the November election, you can be sure that President Barack Obama and his disciples will be ticking off his perceived accomplishments in his bid to win re-election. He will attempt to position himself as the tax-cutting, regulation-busting friend of small business.
Nothing could be farther from the truth.
If you listen closely, he will side-step the priorities he failed to accomplish in his three years in office, and won’t accomplish in 2012. They all have one thing in ...
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As this is the week of predictions, I have a prediction of my own.
After nearly four years of crushed optimism, I predict that in 2012, America will get back on its feet by getting back to its roots.
As a nation, we will rediscover our exceptionalism and stop making excuses for it, or worse, being ashamed by it.
We have temporarily lost our way.
We have turned our focus away from the heritage of our Democracy; a symbol of strength and fairness once ...
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The Commerce Department recently released figures that from the start of the 2000s, U.S. multinational corporations added 1.5 million workers to their payrolls in Asia and another 477,500 workers in Latin America (not including Mexico).
At the same time, some 864,000 U.S. jobs were cut.
From 2000 to 2009, U.S. corporations increased employment in Canada by 1.0 million (up 6 percent); in the U.K. by 1.1 million (up 8 percent); in India by 453,000 (up 642 percent); in Brazil by 505,300 (up ...
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