Sharon Heaton is the CEO of sbLiftOff, a lower middle-market M&A advisory firm that serves GovCon companies and founder-led businesses. Getting started in government contracting is hard. Not only does ...

If you're like many investors, you probably don't have enough small- or mid-cap stocks in your portfolio. Undoubtedly, after strong gains from the cap-weighted S&P 500, it's not like you need the ...

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently ruled that agencies are not required to follow the small business “rule of two” when issuing task orders under the GSA Federal Supply Schedule ...

The total number of federal contracting dollars geared for small businesses hit an all-time high in fiscal 2022, but the actual number of contracts set aside for those companies continued a nearly ...

Let’s talk about small-cap stocks. Though they have largely been swimming under the radar during the past year – as mega-cap giants soaked up funds and headlines – small-caps still offer plenty of ...

Many small-cap funds lagged their benchmarks by wide margins in 2025 while putting up respectable absolute returns. Strategies that eschew speculative small caps and focus on higher-quality companies, ...