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Develop Your Strategic Plan for 2010‏!

Michelle Renee | Posted 11.07.2009 | Business

Read More: Small Business, Jian, Women Entrepreneurs, Business News, Software, Michelle Renee, Biz-Plan-Builder, How-to-Start-a-New-Business, New Business, Entrepreneurship, Business, Fox Business News, Burke Franklin, Business News

Having a proven strategic business planning and financial forecasting system will help you, not only save time and reduce stress, but also make the most out of your existing cash flow, opportunities and resources.

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The New Power Girls: Women Entrepreneurs And Gender In Business

Patricia Handschiegel | Posted 11.10.2009 | Business

Read More: Women Founders, Blogher, Women Entrepreneurs, The New Power Girls, Glass Ceiling, Women in Business, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Business News

Power Girls are women in a man -- and women's -- world. Gender does not define who we are, what we need to do, and most of all, what we want to accomplish. It never has.

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Got Goals, Lack Follow-Through?

Joseph Satto | Posted 11.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Dreams, My Someday, Follow-Through, Achievement, Joseph Satto, Entrepreneurship, Goals, Happiness, Living News

Although it took me a while to sort this out, apparently its something that a lot of people already knew. "A fool with a plan will beat a genius with no plan every time."

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Back to the Roots: Entrepreneurship and Global Competition

Leslie Pratch, Ph.D. | Posted 10.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Korea, European Union, Globalization, China, Capitalism, Entrepreneurship, Cash for Clunkers, India, Green Energy, Business News

The very rich and the very poor exist under capitalism and communism. We must look to the middle class, and its size and growth, to see the secret of capitalism.

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Leaving the Law, Part Two: A Different Kind of Green

Laura A. Hutchings | Posted 10.24.2009 | Denver

Read More: Energy Efficiency, Women Entrepreneurs, Green, Clean Energy Economy, Entrepreneurship, Green Energy, Law Firms, Entrepreneur, Career Change, Denver News

In May of this year, I left my post as an associate at a large international law firm to stake my claim in the Wild West of Colorado's clean energy economy.

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Just Listen Microsoft - An Opportunist Does Not a Visionary Make

Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 10.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Steve Ballmer, Apple, Windows 7, Microsoft, Mark Goulston, Visionary, Business, Entrepreneurship, Living News

Opportunists are about extending a grasp in an already competitive environment. They are about being grabby, and when they have the clout of a Microsoft, about being "pushy."

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Entrepreneurship May Be Genetic

inc.com | Josh Spiro | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Dna, Genetics, Entrepreneurship, Business, Hormones, Business News

If you made your first sale while still in diapers and your lemonade stand was a substantial contributor to the family income, you've likely been call...

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Young in America

David D. Burstein | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Debate, Social Innovation, Youth Vote, Youth, Unemployment Rate, Green Jobs, Economic Crisis, Social Security, Young-Invincibles, Economy, David Burstein, Renewable Energy, Jobs, Innovation, Fiscal Responsibility, Young Voters, Politics, Unemployed, Unemployment, Social Entrepreneurship, Millennials, Us Economic Crisis, Social Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Nancy Pelosi, Health Care, Politics News

By most indicators young people are the most adversely affected age group by the economic crisis, the most at risk when it comes to health care coverage, and the deepest in debt.

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TechStars: It's About Community

David Cohen | Posted 10.14.2009 | Denver

Read More: Mentorship, Startups, Entrepreneurship, Techstars, Boulder, Aol, Digg, Socialthing, Angel Investing, Software, Joe Stump, Simplegeo, Denver News

In Boulder entrepreneurship circles, there is a genuine desire to see others succeed and a general belief that karma matters. There's a sense that together we're building something here.

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Small Business Credit Squeezed As Financial Crisis Lingers

Reuters | nick carey | Posted 10.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Entrepreneurs, Small Business, CDC Small Business Finance, Entrepreneurship, Carmine Ryan, Small Business Credit, Business News

SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - Small companies create more than half of America's jobs, but the entrepreneurs who drive this part of the economy continue to co...

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Flickr's Caterina Fake: 'Hard Work' Can Be Detrimental

Fast Company | Cliff Kuang | Posted 10.10.2009 | Business

Read More: Efficiency, Neuroscience, Daydreaming, Watson and Crick, Caterina Fake, Economy, Four-Hour Work Week, Facebook, Entrepreneurship, Time Wasters, Hard Work, Flickr, Business News

Caterina Fake, who, with her husband Stewart Butterfield, founded Flickr, knows a thing or two about bliztkreig work schedules. But she points out tha...

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If You Want To Be An Entrepreneur, You Have To Be Willing To Take The Bagel

Simon Sinek | Posted 10.07.2009 | Business

Read More: Leadership, Progress, Inspiration, Start With Why, Entrepreneurs, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Business, Motivation, Why, Small Business, Business News

Entrepreneurs see the thing they want or need, and then try to figure out a process for how to get it. People who shouldn't be entrepreneurs see only the standard process.

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Why Did We Quit Our Cushy Corporate Jobs to Reinvent Independent Bookselling?

Praveen Madan | Posted 10.05.2009 | Books

Read More: Bookselling, Local Bookstores, Independent Bookstores, Entrepreneurship, Books, Bookstores, Booksmith, Books News

"You did what?" is the typical response when we tell our friends that we quit our cushy corporate jobs and bought an independent bookstore in the heart of San Francisco.

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Lessons From Coco Chanel, a Self-Made Woman

Rachael Chong | Posted 10.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Coco Before Chanel, CoCo Chanel, Entrepreneurship, Gender Equality, Social Entrepreneurship, Glass Ceiling, Clinton Global Initiative, Women Entrepreneurs, Women and Girls, Business News

A woman ahead of her time, Coco Chanel was a true entrepreneur, who brought women freedom through fashion.

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Small Businesses That Are Cheap To Start

consumerist.com | Posted 10.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Small Businesses, Entrepreneurship, Recession, Start-Ups, Business News

Has the slumping economy got you looking for ideas to earn some extra money? If so, personal finance blog Wise Bread can help you out with their list ...

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Health Care's True Cost to Small Business

Andrew Ruben | Posted 09.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Congress, Small Business, Social Entrepreneurship, Health Care Reform, Universal Health Care, Health Insurance, Social Entrepreunership, Entrepreneurship, Perverse Incentives, Business, Entrepreneur, Health Care, Business News

Reversing the perverse incentives in the health care system -- a system which prevents small businesses from growing -- is integral to any economic recovery.

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Start-Ups: Business Creating Takes Sharp Drop During Recession

wsj.com | CARI TUNA | Posted 09.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Small Businesses, Small Business Administration, Business Creation, Economy, Start-Ups, Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship, Recession, Business News

New companies will be crucial to the strength of any economic recovery. Businesses in their first 90 days of life accounted for 14% of hiring in the U...

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Kathleen Colson: Making a Difference in Africa through Entrepreneurship [VIDEO]

Judith Ellis | Posted 10.19.2009 | Impact

Read More: Donating to Charity, BOMA Fund, Kathleen Colson, Entrepreneurship, Microfinance, Business, Africa, Impact, Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post, Impact News

The BOMA Fund works to alleviate poverty by building self-sustaining communities amid a rugged and beautiful landscape.

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New Power Girls: 20 Women Founders To Watch, Part II

Patricia Handschiegel | Posted 09.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Oprah Winfrey, Women Founders, NPG 20, Women Entrepreneurs, New Power Girls, Heidi Klum, Women in Business, Tyra Banks, Business, Entrepreneurship, Kim Kardashian, Rachael Ray, Business News

Part substance, part style, and a hundred percent ambition, Power Girls are a new breed of business women and the evolution of hundreds of thousands of women before them.

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Ecopreneur: An Innovative Way to Attract Investors in a Recession

Kristin Boekhoff | Posted 09.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Socially Responsible Investments, Investing, Investments, Social Entrepreneurship, Finance, Green Businesses, Bangladesh, Green News, Green, Women Entrepreneurs, Travel, Entrepreneurship, Private Equity, Entrepreneur, Investors, Business News

I don't have to convince the Bangladeshis of the potential of their country. They are keen to change the world's negative perception of Bangladesh; a high-profile, luxury eco resort could do just that.

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What Is Work? Success Through the Immigrant Mindset

Sharon Glassman | Posted 09.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Network, Kinky Friedman, Living News, Work, Career Advice, Corporate Social Responsibility, Immigrant, Entrepreneurship, Work Ethic, Happiness, Sharon Glassman, Cuban-Americans, Adlai Wertman, California, Success, Glenn Llopis, Howard Beale, Living News

"I was raised by two people who had lost their country," explains Glenn Llopis, a California-based entrepreneur with Cuban parents. "We were taught to see and seize opportunity."

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Five One-Way Tickets to Michigan, Please

Jeff Bocan | Posted 09.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Detroit, Venture Capital, Michigan, Jeff Bocan, Entrepreneurs, Vc, Entrepreneurship, Economic Revitalization, Beringea, Business News

This summer, I decided to move my wife and three little kids away from the sunny beaches and new media millionaires of Southern California to -- you guessed it -- Michigan.

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Join the Entrepreneurs' Movement That Launches Today: A "Cause" for our Economy

Carl J. Schramm | Posted 09.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Small Business, Bet, Economy, Microsoft, Economic Crisis, Entrepreneurship, Whole Foods, Adobe Systems, Entrepreneur, Business News

While Americans understand that entrepreneurs are critical to economic growth, our national dialogue doesn't include comprehensive discussion of policies that promote private sector, job-creating reform.

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