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By Caron Beesley. Need an injection of cash to help you realize your business dream? Maybe now’s the time to approach an angel investor or VC firm. But how can you get the attention of investors, prepare for your presentation and be sure you have all your financial models vetted and ready to share? Read More

By Rieva Lesonsky. If just thinking about walking into a room full of strangers makes you break out in a cold sweat, here are some tips to make networking easier, more effective and maybe even fun. Read More

By Sean Greene. The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Programs have funded great companies like Qualcomm, Genzyme, and iRobot in their earliest days.

The good news is, the program was reauthorized for six years by Congress and sig Read More

By Caron Beesley. Running a business out of your home is a skill, and it’s not for everyone. Success requires tenacity and self-discipline. With no boss to answer to or traditional workplace structure to keep you on track, it’s up to you to make it work. And it’s easier said than done. Here are som Read More

By Barbara Weltman. At the end of June, the U.S. Supreme Court said that the individual mandate under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was constitutional, allowing all of the tax provisions in the law to go into effect as scheduled. Here are some of the actions you’ll have to take for Read More

By Caron Beesley. You’ve probably heard about the controversy surrounding employers asking job applicants for their Facebook user names and passwords as part of the background check process. Unethical as it may seem, what does the law say about this? LEarn more about your options when it comes to r Read More

By Caron Beesley. Contributing to a worthwhile cause has many benefits beyond the act of goodwill itself. It gives local business owners an opportunity to embed themselves in the community and network with other donors. And, of course, there are tax deduction benefits.

But what exactly Read More

By Anita Campbell. Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites are excellent for raising awareness of – and developing an audience for – your blog. So then it becomes a question of how to get more people sharing your blog posts more frequently. In other words, how do you get more tweets, Faceb Read More

In FY2011 the federal government awarded more than $91.5 billion in federal contracts to small businesses, which represented 21.65 percent of small business eligible federal contract dollars.

Federal contracting with small businesses is a win-win. Small businesses get the revenue the Read More

By Caron Beesley. Starting a retail or service business? Looking to form relationships with wholesale suppliers? There are currently 300,000 companies in the U.S. wholesale distribution industry, so as you can imagine, finding and forming trusted relationships with wholesalers takes time and resear Read More