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Microfinancier Helps Small Business Turn Lemons into Lemonade
A lemonade entrepreneur gets some help from a microfinance operation.
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5 Creative Ways To Fund Your Small Business
When Mike Shapiro quit his job as a corporate lawyer to launch a group of community news web sites in 2008, he relied on savings he’d frugally socked away for years. “I wasn’t an Armani suit guy at my...
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These 5 Myths Keep Women From Starting Small Businesses
Deborah Sweeney owns a small business that helps launch other small businesses. She’s noticed an interesting trend in the last five years: Her clientele has changed from 10% women to 25%. It would be...
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This Woman Turned a Backache Into a Million-Dollar Home Business
Working around the clock at a mobile app startup called Everest, Katherine Krug suffered a side effect from long hours at her desk: sciatica. The back pain was intense, she recalls: “It was hard for me...
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Brooklyn Entrepreneur Happily Works 7 Days a Week
Sigal de-Mayo is the creative force behind Insiders1, a Brooklyn-based small business that creates wearable and usable art out of photo collages she shoots, designs and prints. After 16 years selling...
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Tennis Star Andy Murray Ventures Into Crowdfunding Start-Ups
What kind of businesses will the UK tennis star invest in?
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This One-Man Business Sells Millions Worth of Swag Out of a Garage
Need a jumbo canvas shopping bag printed with your company’s logo? What about a twist-action ballpoint pen with your company’s name and web address on it? Harry Ein is your man. Since July 2010, Ein...
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From Construction Worker to Brewmaster
Kenny Thacker explains how he launched Beer Hound Brewery after losing his job during the recession.
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How to Create a Website That Really Sells Your Business
A surprising 45% of U.S. and U.K. small businesses don’t have websites, a 2014 survey by Internet services company Hibu found. Without your own URL, you’ll miss a chance to drive sales. Plus 56% of...
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These Are the Top-Rated Small Business CEOs
Job-hunter web site Glassdoor put out its third annual Employees’ Choice Awards today. They rank the top-rated CEOs in the country, based on votes by their own employees. Among the top-ranked CEOs of...
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How an Unemployed Construction Worker Became a Craft Beer Entrepreneur
Until 2008, Kenny Thacker had spent his career working in construction around the tiny town of Stanardsville, Va. But when the homebuilding business came crashing down that year, he found himself...
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5 Smart Ways to Build Your Business Into a Distinctive Brand
When QuadJobs—a website that connects local employers with college and grad students looking for work—launched in October 2014, the founders wanted to perfect their branding right out of the starting...
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How One Woman Overcame a Panic Disorder to Build a $2 Million Solo Business
Driving to work one day, multimedia producer Pamela Grossman felt like she couldn’t breathe. “My heart was racing,” she recalls. “I thought I was dying. I had to pull over.” That day changed her life....
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This Company Is the Best Place to Work For Millennials
If you’re under 35 and looking for a job, you might want to check out this new Fortune ranking of the Best Workplaces for Millennials. The list, in partnership with researcher Great Place to Work,...
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Banker Pursues Dream Job: Making Ice Cream
After spending years as a banker, Scott Moloney pursued a new career
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How Not to Go Broke When Starting Your Own Business
When New York City executive consultant Stefanie Smith was toying with the idea of leaving her career at Grant Thornton and starting her own firm, it was a fellow alum of Wharton’s MBA program who...
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From Trap to Table: Luke’s Lobster Serves Fresh Maine Catch
President and co-founder Luke Holden was raised in Cape Elizabeth, Maine; he founded his restaurant chain after “jonesing” for a good lobster roll in New York City. “All these great chefs [were] adding...
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Guess Which Small Business Industry Is Growing the Fastest?
Those big rigs you see rumbling down the freeway are a sign of good times. Trucking is now the fastest-growing small-business industry in the U.S., thanks to a robust economy and expanded options for...
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3 Ways to Figure Out If There’s a Market for Your Business Idea
When entrepreneur Everett Dickson made plans to take lessons in racing open-wheel cars at a school in Arizona, he ran into an awkward problem. As a user of smokeless tobacco—aka chewing tobacco—he...
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This Is Why You Should Consider Dumping Your Traditional Job
Don’t feel bad for independent workers because they don’t have regular jobs, with benefits, traditional work hours, and such. This broad category of workers, which includes freelancers, independent...
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