Small businesses are believed to be the driver of an economic recovery. But how does someone go about raising the capital needed to buy an existing small business or to start a new one? And what about growing a small business when it's time to expand?
We'll talk with business lenders to get their perspective on how they determine whether to provide small business loans.
Also on the program, in 2013, Vermont passed the country's first law against so-called "patent trolling." Now, some patent-holders are fighting back, and suing the state. Santa Clara University law professor Eric Goldman, an expert on intellectual property law, joins us to check in on the legal battle, and on how other states and the nation have been following Vermont's lead.
Plus we visit a ceremony in Stowe when a lost Purple Heart was returned to the family of Private First Class Cedric Laraway by Purple Hearts Reunited.
Broadcast live on Wednesday, June 24, 2015 at noon; rebroadcast at 7 p.m.
