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Venture Financing With a Mission Beyond Profit

17 JUL 2008 from the New York Times | Read the full story»

CITIES have long offered tax incentives to encourage companies to stay and newcomers to relocate. But another option is gaining currency in old manufacturing cities looking to prop up their struggling economies—homegrown nonprofit groups that nurture new businesses from the ground up.

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Special Report: Home-Based Business

Moving out of your brick-and-mortar offices and running your company solely online can cut expenses and boost productivity.

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Betting on Betas: How Internet Entrepreneurs Are Creating New Paths to Online Revenue

Some Internet entrepreneurs are blazing new trails to real revenue in the virtual world. In the examples that emerged from the recent Supernova conference, an annual technology event in San Francisco organized by Wharton legal studies and business ethics professor Kevin Werbach, these models have something in common: building long-term relationships with customers.

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Advice for entrepreneurs: Throw out that five-year plan, build something now, and don't take any money

Gianforte describes how to build a company from sales rather than enlisting professional financiers. The secret is to stop sweating your five-year plan and start moving the product from day one. If your business idea requires more money than you have at hand, then shrink the idea.

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Deployment Hurts Business Owners

The U.S. military has relied heavily on National Guard and Reserve forces to meet the demands of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Many of these troops are small-business owners. Congress is trying to alleviate their situation. reports from KPLU with Northwest News Network. (Audio)

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The early days: How 37signals built buzz out of the gate

We built up an audience that turned out to be an invaluable headstart when we eventually launched Basecamp. It’s a lot easier to market a product when you already have thousands of fans — ones who are the perfect target market for what you’re trying to sell.

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After Selling the Company, Remorse

Many entrepreneurs who stay on after selling their businesses face a variety of challenges once they turn over control of the companies they built. (Subscription required)

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Homegrown vegetables, no green thumb needed

Launched earlier this year, San Francisco-based My Farm calls itself a decentralized urban farm that grows vegetables in backyard gardens throughout the city. For anywhere between USD 600 and USD 1,000—depending on size—the company will install an organic vegetable garden in a customer's back yard.

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Would You Hire Your Husband?

29 JUN 2008 from the New York Times | Read the full story»

At a time when high-profile women have suffered some setbacks on Wall Street and when women in general still struggle for pay parity, a group of entrepreneurs has proved that women are comfortable not only with running their own companies, but also with having their husbands work for them. In addition to finding ways to work together at home, the couples have created a separate balance of power in their business relationship. And though it may help that both partners do this to enrich a family enterprise, the woman may make a conscious effort to ensure that her mate is getting appropriate recognition. (Subscription required)

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Greatest U.S. Export: Entrepreneurship

Venture capitalists have found the formula for entrepreneurial success and are sharing it with companies far beyond U.S. shores.

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High Growth Firms Tend to be Old Fogies, Not Startups

A new study out by the SBA’s Office of Advocacy proves just how much time it takes to get to be a fast growing business. The study, entitled "High-Impact Firms: Gazelles Revisited 3", highlights a group of businesses that they call high impact firms. This study found that high-impact firms, which are high revenue and high employment growth firms, are on average 25 years old!

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Demystifying Web 2.0

Richard J. Goossen shows how entrepreneurs can make the most of Web 2.0.

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Dad: An Entrepreneur's Success Secret

In honor of Father's Day, notable entrepreneurs share memories of their fathers that have helped shape their careers.

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Six Months Later, Start-Ups Find Their Goals Are Elusive

Taking another look at three new small businesses and how they’ve fared in the last several months. (Subscription required)

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Ten Reasons Your Next Launch Will Fail

03 JUN 2008 from BusinessWeek | Read the full story»

To introduce your new products successfully, meet a need, aim for a broad audience, and research, research, research.

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Disney: When You Wish Upon a Startup

Its media-oriented VC fund, Steamboat Ventures, is quietly nurturing entrepreneurs.

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When a Business Partnership Goes Wrong

If the business is failing and your working relationship sours, there are steps you can take to either mend fences with your partners or dissolve the partnership.

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Infrastructure to help build an economy

Even as violence and poverty wash over their country, some entrepreneurial Kenyans are getting the economy back on its feet with the help of a government program. Sarah Nics has the story.

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Building Bold Goals for Your Business

Put yourself on the map: Take a cue from Robert Mondavi, Howard Schultz, and Doug Ducey, and learn how to articulate a compelling vision.

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How "Why Startups Fail" Fails

3. There is no Entrepreneur This one I do agree with. Every great company has a great leader who is willing to make decisions, say "no" more often than "yes," and see a clear vision through to fruition.

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Beneteau Sailboats: From Family Shop to Global Hit

Fifty years ago, Beneteau was a small, family-owned company that made fishing boats in a French village. Now it's the world's top sailboat maker, with dealers in 50 countries. Reporter Eleanor Beardsley has more on the woman who transformed the company. (Audio)

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Ning's Infinite Ambition

Here's something you probably don't know about the Internet: Simply by designing your product the right way, you can build a billion-dollar business from scratch. No advertising or marketing budget, no need for a sales force, and venture capitalists will kill for the chance to throw money at you.

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Facebook Ignites Entrepreneurial Spirit at Harvard

20 MAY 2008 from the Wall Street Journal | Read the full story»

Harvard students have caught start-up fever since Facebook -- founded when creator Mark Zuckerberg was at Harvard in 2004 -- exploded in popularity. Current students and alumni are using the site as a business model. (Subscription required)

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Tech tools bring big success for small businesses

Millions of U.S. small-business owners are geeking out in the digital bazaar. As online commerce grows and technology gets cheaper ...

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Student Consultants Supply Fresh Insights to Businesses

08 MAY 2008 from the New York Times | Read the full story»

Sending business students to do fieldwork at local firms is not new, of course. The trend, however, has taken a sharp new turn over the last few years, said Bo Fishback, vice president for entrepreneurship at the Kauffman Foundation, a center of entrepreneurial research in Kansas City, Mo. "There has been a huge shift into these hands-on programs where the kids act as de facto consultants," Mr. Fishback said. (Subscription required)

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Studentpreneurs

Nick Massari had dreams of becoming a baseball star, but instead finds himself running Nanina’s Gourmet Sauce, a million-dollar pasta-sauce business, reports Glenn Rifkin in the New York Times (5/2/08). Nick found himself at Nanina’s because he had helped start the company as a student in an entrepreneurship class...

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Degrees Designed for Rural Business

Some business schools are creating programs so grads can apply their skills to the farms and businesses of rural America.

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How to Foster Tech Entrepreneurship

Startup hotshots are older and more educated than generally thought; it follows that training and finance skills should be offered to all age groups.

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Businesses try to Net financial assistance

Since the credit crunch of 2007, some 400 banks have opted out of the federal government's guaranteed small-business-loan program,...

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A Classroom Path to Entrepreneurship

As college courses in how to start small businesses are becoming as ubiquitous as Economics 101, gone is the conventional wisdom that such skills cannot be learned in class. (Subscription required)

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Yelp to businesses: Deal with our users yourselves!

Reviews site launches Yelp for Business Owners, which encourages companies to monitor activity on their pages and communicate with users who've reviewed them.

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Making Long-Distance Partnerships Work

Even though technology makes it possible to run a business from almost anywhere, can a business partnership thrive if the partners live in different cities? (Subscription required)

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Raising Rates Without Losing Clients

23 APR 2008 from the New York Times | Read the full story»

With the economy in the doldrums, the question that consultants, freelancers and other solo service providers have long puzzled over — How to raise prices without losing customers — just got harder to answer. (Subscription required)

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Celebrating Small Business

This week is National Small Business week, and that means it's time to celebrate America's job creators. To highlight the importance of the small business sector in America, the NFIB Research Foundation compiled a list of facts and figures that indicate exactly how much small businesses have done for their communities, employees and local economies.

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Biznik Connects Independent Business Owners

08 APR 2008 from National Public Radio | Read the full story»

A Seattle couple never meant to start a business, but now they're running Biznik, an online network for independent business owners that consistently ranks in the top 10 results for business networking. (Audio)

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Young, Green Entrepreneurs Flock to Carbon Market

Once, if you were in your 20s and wanted to save the environment, you might have joined Greenpeace. But climate change and a billion-dollar carbon market that trades in carbon credits -- as if they were pork bellies -- have created a new career niche: carbon entrepreneurs. (Audio)

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For the Self-Employed, a Year-Round System Will Smooth Tax Time

With April 15 approaching, newly self-employed workers are about to learn an important business lesson — keeping track of income and expenses is part of the job, too. (Subscription required)

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How to Choose a Business Partner

Evaluate based on skills and personality, not emotional ties. Then define roles and formalize the agreement with the help of a lawyer.

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Boomerang CEOs

Coming out of retirement to help run a startup is dicey enough; when the startup is your child's, be ready.

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Entrepreneurial Edge: Small Businesses Offer Alternatives to Gang Life

A Los Angeles corporation is demonstrating that the training and discipline of working in a small company can help change the lives of former gang members. (Subscription required)

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An Entrepreneurial Path to Peace

By providing small businesses with incubators, Israeli industrialist Stef Wertheimer hopes to give Israelis and Arabs economic opportunities that will lead to peace.

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Why Risk Is Important

Entrepreneurs, like ice climbers, are often said to risk their necks. But there are ways to cut danger to sane levels—and good reasons to try.

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Birth of a Sales Tool: LinkedIn Meets eBay

As corporations swell and business moves Web-ward, it can be argued that traditional sales practices -- done over a handshake or a phone call -- are going the way of the telegraph. New York-based entrepreneur Evan Sohn has watched the transformation first hand, as an early stage executive in leading-edge tech companies like OmniPod, ReefEdge, and Logix. As an employee, decision-maker, and entrepreneur, he sensed an inefficiency in the way sales is conducted in the Internet age. So he embarked on a mission to turn the profession digital.

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The Power of Small Business

In a new working paper called "Do Small Businesses Create Jobs? New Evidence from the National Establishment Time Series," the economists David Neumark, Brandon Wall, and Junfu Zhang examine the National Establishment Time Series and conclude that small businesses create more jobs, on net, than larger ones.

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An Office Space of One’s Own for Entrepreneurs

28 FEB 2008 from the New York Times | Read the full story»

In Good Company is a shared work space that offers women a place to share ideas with other entrepreneurs. (Subscription required)

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Are You Losing Control of Your Business?

Networks and resources for startups abound, but small companies managing expansion need help, too. No. 1 on your to-do list? Make a "stop doing" list.

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Come for brunch. Bring billions.

Come for brunch. Bring billions. — For access to Silicon Valley camaraderie and capital, you can't beat the informal Founders spread... The Internet bubble of the late 1990s ended with a painful pop. When today's young entrepreneurs get together, the only bubbles they see are in their mimosas.

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The 100-Page Start-Up Plan -- Don't Bother

FEB 2008 from the Wall Street Journal | Read the full story»

[A] growing body of research suggests that some entrepreneurs spend way too long polishing 50- or 100-page business plans when they should be out in the marketplace selling their product or service.

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CEO keeps growing new ventures

Some of the Internet economy's leading-edge companies were born at high-tech incubator Idealab. And then came the dot-com bust. Idealab survived but it's taken a new direction. Kai Ryssdal talks with CEO Bill Gross in Conversations From the Corner Office.

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The Power of Whimsy

17 FEB 2008 from the New York Times | Read the full story»

As an entrepreneur, Ms. Boynton maintains a firm grasp on market realities and her finances, but she says she has succeeded by refusing to make money her main objective. Instead, she says, she has focused on the creative process, her artistic autonomy, her relationships and how she uses her time. (Subscription required)

Hat tip: Freakonomics

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A Start-Up Says It Can Predict Others’ Fate

Two former Oxford University students are getting attention in Silicon Valley for developing technology that automates aspects of the venture capital decision-making process. (Subscription required)

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Automate Your Online Business

These 4 easy steps will save you time, make you money and free you up to run your business from anywhere in the world.

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Google Apps can be a small firm's best friend

For Ritu Raj, the decision started with cost. Apps is cheap or free, has more liberal usage terms than Office and doesn't require ...

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Starting a Business Instead of Retiring

11 JAN 2008 from BusinessWeek | Read the full story»

Entrepreneurship holds increasing appeal for retirees. But they need to address four unique challenges to improve their chances for success.

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The Most And Least Profitable Businesses To Start

18 JAN 2008 from Forbes | Read the full story»

With the help of Sageworks, a Raleigh, N.C.-based private-company data provider, Forbes.com has assembled a list of the 10 most and least profitable businesses--on a pretax basis--that aspiring entrepreneurs might hope to launch. Average pretax profits ranged from a juicy 25% to a knee-wobbling negative 7%.

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Billions of Entrepreneurs in China and India

Entrepreneurship in the world's 2 most populous nations, China and India, has through modern times been somewhat asleep. But now, says HBS professor Tarun Khanna in a new book, both societies "have woken up," and the results could reshape business, politics, and society worldwide.

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Ambition Knows No Season

Seasonal changes in the economy are not unique to Alaska. But winter in the state often tests the ingenuity of business owners. (Subscription required)

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The Entrepreneurship Myth

23 JAN 2008 from BusinessWeek | Read the full story»

Author Scott Shane seeks to dispel popular illusions about startups—starting with the myth that founders earn more than they would as employees.

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The Dirtiest Mind in Business

How filth met opportunity and created a franchise.

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Couple keep heady hopes for Dixie Beer

Until Hurricane Katrina ripped through its brewery, Dixie Beer was a New Orleans mainstay. It's being brewed it Wisconsin for the time being. Kai Ryssdal talks with owner Kendra Bruno about how she and her husband, Joe, are bringing their beer back to market. (Audio)

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Entrepreneurship Takes Off in Ireland

Ireland’s relatively new emphasis on entrepreneurs is the culmination of four decades of policies that have lifted the economy from centuries of poverty to modern prosperity. (Subscription required)

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Lessons for Iran's working woman

Iranians live under strict rules that govern their public lives, but inside people's homes and businesses the scene is quite different. Borzou Daragahi tells the tale of two women who used their different backgrounds to stitch together a business.

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Nobel Winner Rethinks Business from Ground Up

In Creating a World Without Poverty Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus describes how entrepreneurs with an altruistic vision can use traditional businesses to tackle the world's most pressing problems. (Audio)

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Set-Aside Plan Doesn't Satisfy Women Business Owners

The Small Business Administration is proposing to reserve some government contracts in four industries in which firms owned by women are not well represented. The four? Cabinetmaking, engraving, intelligence and certain motor-vehicle sales. Women business owners say they're at a disadvantage in many other areas, as well. (Audio)

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Entrepreneurs unite!

Marketplace's Steve Tripoli has noticed an international trend -- entrepreneurs in developing economies calling for the rule of law to protect their business interests. He explains to Kai Ryssdal.

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Sign Of The Times: Web 2.0 Outsourcing Humor

Something that you don’t often see a lot written about in new media is the strong trend by startups to outsource a lot of their work.

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Distributing Locally Grown Food Proves Challenging

Many consumers want to eat locally grown produce. Many small farmers want to oblige but have difficulty getting the food shipped to a local market. The business is dominated by big distributors. In northern Michigan, one entrepreneur, is trying to solve the problem. (Audio)

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The accidental innovator

19 DEC 2007 from the Economist | Read the full story»

Evan Williams, the founder of Blogger and Twitter, epitomises Silicon Valley's right brain... [W]hat he really wants is to make stumbling on accidents into a culture, habit, process or speciality.

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Meraki, the cheap Wi-Fi guys, get $20 million

The MIT thesis-turned-company wants to build Wi-Fi networks in India. It's starting in San Francisco.

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Gen Y makes a mark and their imprint is entrepreneurship

06 DEC 2007 from USA TODAY | Read the full story»

They've got the smarts and the confidence to get a job, but increasing numbers of the millennial generation — those in their mid-20s and younger — are deciding corporate America just doesn't fit their needs. So armed with a hefty dose of optimism, moxie and self-esteem, they are becoming entrepreneurs.

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Searchers vs. Planners

In the December Atlantic, Sarah Chayes tells the fascinating, frustrating story of her Afghan adventures in entrepreneurship--and the utter lack of interest she encountered from U.S. funders charged with aiding Afghan economic development.

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Top 10 Startups Worth Watching in 2008

Which startups are worth paying attention to in the coming year? We pick 10 companies that should be making significant strides in 2008.

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Does cashing out mean selling out?

When social entrepreneurs' mission-oriented businesses get big enough they also attract serious buyers. Steve Tripoli reports on how some business owners have dealt with the dilemma of turning over the mission to someone else.

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Trees with character, felled to order

Norwegian Jule Tre Fra Skogen ("Christmas trees from the forest") believes that every tree is unique, and shouldn't be sold anonymously. So, founders Anders and Bartosz trekked into the woods with a camera and took pictures of the trees they liked, and gave them names inspired by their appearance: Kjedelig Tre (boring tree), Jesus Gran (Jesus spruce), Voldsomt Ordinær Gran (Highly ordinary spruce), etc. The snapshots were posted online to let customers find a tree they like the look of. Trees are priced at NOK 300 (USD 54 / EUR 37.50) and reserved by emailing Jule Tre Fra Skogen. Anders and Bartosz then head back into the forest to carefully chop down the selected trees for delivery to Oslo.

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Business-Plan Contests Become "American Idol Meets Trump"

11 DEC 2007 from the Wall Street Journal | Read the full story»

Business-plan competitions, long an academic ritual to help business-school students develop ideas and pitch investors, are becoming an increasingly popular way for business owners and would-be entrepreneurs to raise extra cash while honing their business strategy. Many of the newest contests aren't hosted by colleges, but rather by product makers and Web sites courting small-business owners and by investment firms or nonprofits trying to spur economic activity in a particular region or industry. (Subscription required)

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Radiohead Makes Business Plans the New Punk Rock

A simple, "pay what you like" offering breaks all the rules and helps set the stage for the splintered future of the music biz. Bands need to treat marketing and management decisions as a valid part of the creative process. Commentary by Eliot Van Buskirk.

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Mixing in social concerns with the soup

A small-but-growing source of funding for social entrepreneurs, called "community development venture capital," has helped revive a cannery in a remote Maine community. Steve Tripoli reports in his series on social entrepreneurship.

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Tracing Business Acumen to Dyslexia

A study concluded that dyslexics were more likely than nondyslexics to excel in oral communication and problem solving and to own two or more businesses. (Subscription required)

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The Founding CEO's Dilemma: Stay or Go?

Q&A with: Michael J. Roberts and Noam T. Wasserman

Editor's Note: Noam Wasserman is an assistant professor and MBA Class of 1961 Fellow in the entrepreneurial management unit at Harvard Business School. His paper "Founder-CEO Succession and the Paradox of Entrepreneurial Success," published in Organization Science in March-April 2003, won Harvard's 2003 Aage Sorensen Memorial Award for sociological research. With his coauthor, Rock Center Entrepreneur-in-Residence Henry McCance of Greylock Partners, professor Wasserman recently completed a case study about founder-CEO succession at Wily Technology. New Business publisher Mike Roberts met with professor Wasserman to learn more about his research.

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Tracing Business Acumen to Dyslexia

A study concluded that dyslexics were more likely than nondyslexics to excel in oral communication and problem solving and to own two or more businesses.

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Prospecting in 'frontier markets'

Vietnam is one of the most promising of what have come to be called "frontier markets" -- emerging economies that haven't quite emerged yet. John Authers of the Financial Times provides his insight. (Audio)

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Big-Biz Strategies for Small-Biz Owners

Learn how to improve your small business by implementing Six Sigma problem-solving methods.

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Life is good

Ten years ago, Bert Jacobs and his brother John were selling T-shirts out of the back of a beat-up van on the streets of Boston, but today they have 250 employees and a brand that’s sold through some 4,500 retail outlets worldwide...

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Shifting Careers: Like Marriage, Business Takes Work

For some business partners, help for a struggling relationship can come from a variation on the couple’s counselor: the business therapist. (Subscription required)

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Managing a triple bottom line

Some people use their businesses to help fix what needs fixing. In the first of a series, Steve Tripoli reports on a Boston woman who's spent years fine-tuning the balance between her company's business and social goals.

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Learning big-league business skills

An organization in Central Louisiana has created a farm system for entrepreneurs, much like professioal baseball's. We asked Kate Archer Kent to check it out.

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Lots of holiday congestion

When you travel during the holiday season, packed airports are part of the experience. But for many air travelers the crunch begins before they even get inside the terminal. Lisa Napoli reports on what goes on in the parking lots.

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Entrepreneur 2.0

This guest post is written by Glen Kelman, the president and CEO of real estate startup Redfin.... While second-timers’ experience may lower the likelihood of failure, from 82% to 70% according to one study, no one has noticed that it also seems to limit the magnitude of success.

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In Search of Inexperience

I would like to declare my support for Glenn’s perspective and help him make the case that second-time entrepreneurs are not necessarily the be-alls and end-alls.

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Taking a Whack at Making a Car

A generation of digital-era Henry Fords are trying to apply to carmaking the same entrepreneurial spirit that built the information superhighway. (Subscription required)

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The Winning Young Entrepreneurs, 2007

12 NOV 2007 from BusinessWeek | Read the full story»

Here are readers' top picks from our third annual search for America's most promising young business people.

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Think Different, Bank Different: How Female Entrepreneurs Grow Businesses

Let's say a woman has built a business through bootstrapping and local bankers. How does she plan for and respond when her business grows to it's next level, and is that different than the way men might handle it?

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In Global Entrepreneurship, One Small Initiative Can Make One Huge Difference

Entrepreneurs love to grumble about the roadblocks and delays created by bureaucrats. Government officials, they say, are slow, bumbling and concerned only about hewing to their rules and clocking out at 4:55 p.m. But in a study of global entrepreneurship, Raffi Amit and Mauro Guillen, both Wharton management professors, have found that a simple, if smart, bureaucratic initiative mattered critically in determining a country's level of entrepreneurship.

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America's Best Young Entrepreneurs 2007

22 OCT 2007 from BusinessWeek | Read the full story»

Most finalists are banking on the Web, but some have broken into more traditional sectors such as publishing, manufacturing, and investment banking.

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Bank run by street kids in New Delhi

We've reported on programs run by banks in the Netherlands and the US that were focused on 'kidpreneurs'—teaching children basic lessons about money and starting a business. A related and less carefree spotting came in from New Delhi, India, where more than 1,000 street children have joined together to create a bank that helps them manage the small sums they earn each day.

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After Succeeding, Young Tycoons Try, Try Again

Having already struck it rich, many young Internet tycoons throw themselves back into a start-up, in a competition with one another and themselves. (Subscription required)

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If They Could Turn Back Time

9 entrepreneurs take a look back at their startup days and reveal what they would have done differently if they knew then what they know now.

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The Power of Raising Your Prices

With the ever-increasing costs of insurance premiums, employee salaries, materials, etc., it’s nearly impossible to keep your business successful without raising your prices. Sure, a price increase comes with the risk of losing some longtime customers, but sometimes you have to be willing to take a chance in order to stay out of the red.

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Entrepreneurs Happier, Busier Than Average Americans

A new study casts light on how business owners approach work/life balance and other issues.

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When, Why, and How to Fire That Customer

OCT/NOV 2007 from BusinessWeek | Read the full story»

Getting rid of the unprofitable, the time wasters, and the crazy-makers in your midst.

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The $3 Flight

Tony Fernandes had no aviation experience when he founded his no-frills carrier, AirAsia. It’s now among the fastest-growing airlines in the world.

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Female Ownership Matters

15 OCT 2007 from BusinessWeek | Read the full story»

Patricia Karter, Dancing Deer Bakery CEO, thinks a better gender balance in the business world could improve society as a whole.

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Entrepreneur Aims to Overthrow TV, Not Get Rich

Nicholas Reville's startup, the Participatory Culture Foundation, will never make him rich: It's a nonprofit. But he has grander ambitions -- like completely overhauling the television industry -- and that's why he made his company a nonprofit.

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Young Millionaires Who Made It Bigger

After their mention in Entrepreneur, these former Young Millionaires, including Liz Lange and Tony Hsieh, skyrocketed to success. Find out what lessons they've learned, and how their companies have evolved.

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A Capital Idea for Women

04 OCT 2007 from the New York Times | Read the full story»

It is a well-known and oft-quoted fact that women are starting businesses in the United States at twice the rate of men. The result, according to the Center for Women’s Business Research, is 10.4 million businesses owned by women nationwide. That these businesses aren’t doing all that well is far less talked about. (Subscription required)

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Financial Models for Underachievers: Two Years of the Real Numbers of a Startup

My buddy at Redfin, Glenn Kelman, decided he wanted to bare his financial soul so that other entrepreneurs could get greater insight into the witchcraft called financial modeling. In this two-part posting, he reveals his numbers and his lessons. They are eye-opening for most entrepreneurs.

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A Marketplace with a Mission

Etsy.com founder Rob Kalin hasn't just created an online marketplace for crafts; he's built a site that creates entrepreneurs and strives for a sustainable future.

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How Baby Boomers Tap Nest Eggs To Fund Ventures

02 OCT 2007 from the Wall Street Journal | Read the full story»

Boomers are discovering they have a crucial advantage over younger entrepreneurs: They can draw on decades' worth of savings to fund their start-ups. (Subscription required)

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Small Business: Headquarters at Home and Proud to Be There

A growing number of home-based businesses are no longer trying make their small operations look bigger. (Subscription required)

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Study Says Delays at S.B.A. Harm Program for Women

Delays in the Small Business Administration’s disbursal of grant money caused layoffs and cutbacks at women’s business centers. (Subscription required)

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Bespoke Tokyo

Bespoke Tokyo is a versatile travel agency that brings together in-depth local knowledge of Tokyo, trend analysis and media savvy to serve a diverse range of clients.

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Entrepreneurs Boost Developing World

A recent survey of 84 countries conducted by the World Bank found a significant relationship between economic development and entrepreneurial activity around the world.

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More Than Moonlighting

These entrepreneurs reveal what it takes to run twoe completely different businesses.

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