Austin Entrepreneurs to be Featured in National Town Hall On Internet Taxation and Workforce Shortages.Business Editors AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 9, 2000 Entrepreneurs to discuss the future of small business in the digital age and view the Presidential debate with leaders from Fortune Small Business Magazine, Agillion.com and Dell Computer... Exploring the economic benefits of the Internet and discussing national e-commerce issues of importance to small business will be the focus of an Oct. 11th town hall being sponsored and nationally Web cast by American Express American Express (NYSE: AXP), sometimes known as "AmEx" or "Amex", is a diversified global financial services company, headquartered in New York City. The company is best known for its credit card, charge card and traveler's cheque businesses. Small Business Services. Eighty five percent of small business owners are using the Internet in one form or another to manage and grow their business, forty percent are using it to buy goods, and 23 percent are using the Internet to sell their products.(a) "At this town hall, we're trying to understand what small businesses need to do to leverage and adapt to the Internet," said Jim Blann, Senior Vice President, American Express Small Business Services. "It only made sense to hold this discussion in a technology center such as Austin where small business owners can learn from each other and develop solutions to meet the challenges and opportunities presented by the Internet." This discussion, the final in a series of three town halls that are part of the "Voices from Main Street" program, will be moderated by Hank hank n. 1. A coil or loop. 2. Nautical A ring on a stay attached to the head of a jib or staysail. 3. A looped bundle, as of yarn. Gilman, Managing Editor, FSB (FrontSide Bus) See system bus. FSB - front side bus : Fortune Small Business Magazine. Entitled en·ti·tle tr.v. en·ti·tled, en·ti·tling, en·ti·tles 1. To give a name or title to. 2. To furnish with a right or claim to something: "Small Business in the Digital Age," this town hall will seek to offer advice and explore solutions to the challenges small business owners face in starting and growing an Internet business. Included on the panel are: Tom Meredith, Managing Director, Dell Ventures (Dell Computer Corp.) Steve Papermaster, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Agillion Laura Groppe, CEO, Girl Games Inc. Darien Dash, Founder, Chairman and CEO, DME (Distributed Management Environment) A network monitoring and control protocol defined by the Open Software Foundation (now The Open Group). DME was not widely used. DME - Distributed Management Environment Interactive Holdings Inc. "The Internet presents a tremendous opportunity for small businesses," said Tom Meredith, managing director of Dell Ventures, Dell's venture capital arm. "But, there is another edge to this sword of opportunity. Small businesses are particularly vulnerable to issues such as the skilled labor shortage A Labor shortage is an economic condition in which there are insufficient qualified candidates (employees) to fill the market-place demands for employment at any price. This condition is sometimes referred to by Economists as "an insufficiency in the labor force. , healthcare costs and the ability to absorb the increasing pace of technological change. Getting the fundamentals right will be key to the survival of any small firm in the Internet era." The panel will field questions from a live audience as well as questions submitted in advance via e-mail. The forum begins at 6:30 p.m. CT and is open to the public. Those who cannot attend can submit questions and comments in advance via e-mail and can watch the live Web cast at (www.americanexpress.com/voices). Following the panel discussion, audience members will remain and view the presidential debate on television monitors. This forum will offer a unique focus-group style look at small business owner's opinions of the presidential candidates. The town hall is supported by the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce and the Texas chapters of the American Electronics Association The American Electronics Association (now known as AeA) is a nationwide non-profit trade association that represents all segments of the technology industry in the United States. and National Small Business United. American Express Small Business Services launched "Voices from Main Street" in March, 2000, to engage small business owners in a national dialogue about the issues that matter to them most. The yearlong year·long adj. Lasting one year. Adj. 1. yearlong - lasting through a year; "attending yearlong courses" long - primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or program includes: A web site (www.americanexpress.com/voices) A nationally broadcast town hall meeting (CNN CNN or Cable News Network Subsidiary company of Turner Broadcasting Systems. It was created by Ted Turner in 1980 to present 24-hour live news broadcasts, using satellites to transmit reports from news bureaus around the world. , May 24) Regional forums for small business owners to meet with their peers and engage in discussions on a local level Broadcast and print advertising featuring small business owners speaking about the issues they find to be most important National opinion polls to take the pulse of entrepreneurs on small business issues About American Express American Express Small Business Services is a unit of American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc. solely dedicated to serving companies with fewer than 100 employees. Small Business Services provides a broad range of financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , including charge and credit cards, equipment financing, lines of credit and tax and business advisory services advisory services advisory services provided to the public, in their capacity as owners and managers of animals, are an important part of veterinary science. They may be provided by government bureaux, by commercial companies who deal in pharmaceuticals or animals or animal . To obtain more information about the Small Business Services group, visit the Small Business Exchange at www.americanexpress.com/smallbusiness. (a)National Small Business United/Arthur Anderson, 2000 |
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