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I recently read a press release at Yahoo! Finance, Form 8-K for YTB INTERNATIONAL, INC. (YTBLA.OB) that I found pretty disturbing.  More...
As a small business owner, you may think your company's valuable data is safe by following common wisdom. However, you may be seriously wrong.  More...
Check out these top 100 blogs to help bolster your business acumen. HR World's list includes classics like top selling business authors Tom Peters, Charles H. Green, and Bob Sutton, along with some exciting new blogs that might surprise you.  More...
No matter how passionately you believe in your business, you've got to make the numbers work before you can turn your dream into the reality of a large and profitable company. While nobody has a crystal ball that can predict the future, a good financial model will help you understand the key elements that make your business tick and help you avoi  More...
Every small business owner should understand the inter-relationship between revenues, assets, and cash flow. The saying, “cash is king” means everything to a successful business owner and can often make the difference between a business thriving or dying.  More...
Start-ups go out of business all the time, often before they even have a chance to even really start up at all. The main culprit in the savage slaughter of these young establishments is the same perpetrator behind the bulk of our fiscal difficulties: Debt.  More...
Raising money for starting your own small business and defining what venture capital is.  More...
Given the current economic climate, you would think the government would be doing all it can to bolster Small Business Administration (SBA) loan programs. But the Bush administration is proceeding as if it was business as usual. The administration, in fact, is once again proposing substantial SBA budget cuts, as it has every year since the preside  More...
Small-business problems accessing capital is anticipation more than actuality for most business owners. In January, the National Federation of Independent Business survey found that "measures of credit tightness have not changed much in a decade. Only four percent of the owners (surveyed) cited the cost and availability of credit as their number  More...
Adverse credit mortgages are mortgages that are meant for people with a bad credit history. Usually, lenders will not provide a mortgage to people with a bad credit history because of the inherent risks involved in providing a mortgage to such customers. However, banks have now created new mortgage products that are meant for people with a bad cre  More...
Some of last year's direst predictions about the economy are now coming true. Here's what you need to know about what comes next.  More...
Before asking when is a good time to remortgage, it’s a good idea to understand why people remortgage. Very basically, the reason for remortgaging, or moving your mortgage from one company to another, is to save money.Usually, the saving will be in the form of playing less per month in mortgage payments. If you do not save money by switching compa  More...
The economic stimulus bill signed into law included one tax break for small businesses added by the Senate, but lost another as Congressional leaders bowed to White House pressure to move quickly without adding too many amendments.

The key addition affecting small businesses is an expansion of "bonus depreciation," which allows investments in  More...
Raising capital is difficult under normal conditions, and a tight credit market and fears of an economic slowdown have made the challenge harder. Unproven early-stage companies could face a tough time finding funds from informal investors who are less willing to take risks in an unsteady economy. Firms looking for equity investments should expect  More...
If you're thinking about upgrading that computer or looking for new technology to help your business, Small Business Computing just announced its 2008 Small Business Computing Excellence in Technology awards. Here's a quick summary, but see the article for the full story: BEST HARDWARE Desktop PC Dell Optiplex 755 Runner-up: HP  More...