Microbusiness Conversations

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Kare Anderson is literate and eloquent, generous and compassionate and — just in case you can’t tell — I really enjoyed my conversation with her.

This is the first time I’d ever talked with her, too, by the way. I have bumped into her any number of times here and there online but this is an initial direct encounter that will, I hope, presage many more.

She chuckled when I told her that I wanted her to share her wisdom with us but she really is wise … and that’s something you don’t get to say about somebody every day.
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It’s not all that often that I come across an intellectual kindred spirit, which I guess means that I am moving in the wrong circles.

If I stop and think about it, the most outstanding virtue of David Gewirtz is his common sense.

In Washington, policy makers have been running around like so many headless chickens squawking about how small businesses need loans so they can hire people.

That is a big business way of thinking about things, though. Most microbusiness owners are not going to borrow money to create a job. Most microbusiness owners feel that if they need to borrow the money, they can’t afford to create that job.
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Anne Wenzel is one of my oldest business buddies. We’ve often moved in roughly the same circles of women Internet pure-play operators and Anne has been an invaluable resource for me over the years as I’ve tried to make sense of the economy for The MicroEnterprise Journal.

And, naturally, Anne is also a fairly brilliant economist who is active professionally. Her company, Econosystems was founded in 1999. Since then, she has become a regular commentator for the San Jose Mercury and the San Francisco Chronicle; she has also appeared on PBS’s The News Hour with Jim Lehrer. Anne is president of the San Francisco chapter of the National Association for Business Economics (NABE) and is vice-chair of the NABE’s Financial Roundtable.

It was a pleasure, as always, to converse with her.