By Julia Becker Collins
When hearing the term “small business,” you probably envision a decades-old hardware store or that North End restaurant you order takeout from once a week. However, other small business owners and I are finding out the hard way there is an exploitive gulf between ours and the government’s definitions being used to protect and save them.
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Julia Becker Collins is the COO of Vision Advertising in Westborough.
As I write this, I’m feeling the same frustration as I work nonstop to guide my company through another set of small business relief funding, which defines small businesses as any company making less than $100 million annually. It reminds me of the ridiculous lengths I had to take during the last round of the Payroll Protection Program to secure funding for my 10-employee business.