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Where are the Starbucks, Nikes, Amazons, Home Depots and Genentechs founded by women?
This is a question that puzzles those who track fast-growing companies. Few fledgling businesses founded by men or women ever grow into giant corporations, but with women launching twice as many businesses as men, some meaningful percentage of the new giants m
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With tax season behind us, a recession looming and gas at an all-time high, is there anything that business can look forward to?
You bet there is: It is tax rebate time!
And if you're smart, your small business will have a plan in place before those checks are ever cut to help consumers spend their stimulus payment with you.
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The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) is sponsoring a contest. The Grand Prize Winner receives a $5,000 cash prize and an all expense paid trip to Washington D.C. to attend the June 8-11, 2008 National Small Business Summit.
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The National Federation of Independent Business along with SBTV.com and Sam's Club will give away a $100,000 business makeover as part of National Small Business Week beginning Monday through April 25. The makeover would include $25,000 in cash, merchandise, supplies and equipment from Sam's Club or samsclub.com, mentoring from SBTV.com experts
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Small-business owners are an optimistic lot, even when they’re pessimistic.
That apparently contradictory result leaped from the National Small Business Association’s 2008 Survey of Small and Mid-Size Business, released Wednesday.
“This year, a whopping 71 percent have a negative outlook on the economy — clearly small business is feeling the
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With the tagline "Change the world...one business at a time," Kivab4b.org offers entrepreneurs and small businesses an easy way to participate in cause-related marketing.
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Small businesses say years of crushing health care costs have them backing major changes this time around. The NFIB helped derail President Bill Clinton's effort to overhaul the health insurance system during the 1990s. Now, small companies with an average of 10 workers are bearing the greatest burden of insurance premium increases, which have gr
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Thomas M. Sullivan, head of the Small Business Administration's Office of Advocacy, aims to make sure U.S. regulations treat entrepreneurs fairly. As the fifth chief counsel to head the office created in 1976 as an independent voice for small business within the federal government, Sullivan would like to see the day that all 90-plus federal agenc
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Senate lawmakers have approved an extra $100 million in funding for federal lending and assistance programs for small businesses. The funds, which would boost the Bush Administration's proposed budget for the Small Business Administration for 2009, provide additional resources for the agency's lending and oversight efforts, along with business d
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Small business owners are sacrificing time with their family to ensure their businesses stay afloat, a report has found.
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An October survey found only 11 percent of small-business owners say they want to retire at all. Nine in 10 say they are happy with what they do -- with 58 percent saying they are very or extremely satisfied with their work. "In other words, small-business owners overwhelmingly like what they do," Gallup said.
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The Small Business Administration on Tuesday announced that it has chosen 11 cities to participate in an initiative designed to stimulate jobs and growth while targeting inner-city small businesses.
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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. The earlier literature on this subject h
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