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窗体顶端 增长空间： 小型企业遭遇经济困境 原文: Room to Grow:Economic Trouble for Small Businesses With banks in lockdown mode, small businesses with big potential are being stifled. Why Main Street innovators matter to us all. By Jeff Garigliano Also in this article: See a Whos Who of Small Business Lenders See an update on these small business owners. If you want to understand whats wrong with the economy, consider Deborah Moore. After working as a nurse-practitioner for 15 years, Moore launched a medical transcription company from her home seven years ago, mostly to be closer to her two kids. The company, called AccuStat EMR, has grown dramatically: Moore still handles transcription services, but she also helps hospitals transfer their records from paper files to electronic documents. Since the federal government wants most hospital records to be stored electronically by 2014, its a booming business. Moore has big clients, like the University of North Carolina Student Health Center, Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, and the Missouri Department of Corrections, and her revenue in 2008 was $35 million. Her only problem? She cant get a loan. Photographed by Adam Taylor Deborah Moore is mentoring her daughter, Mackenzie Milcarek, in small-business innovation as she tries to grow her medical-transcription company. Like most small businesses, AccuStat EMR needs credit to grow. Not much -- about $500,000, which Moore would use to buy computers in bulk. (Right now, when her clients need upgraded computers to store their records, she stands in line at Best Buy.) She has contracts lined up with Dell and HP but no cash to pay them. Moore has tried both local and national banks, independent investors, and venture capitalists, all with no luck. Some banks didnt understand her business, and a few didnt give her a reason for their rejection, but many blamed her personal credit-fallout from a divorce eight years ago -- even though her companys financials were sound. Moore was named the Small Business Ad