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Entrepreneurship Will Lead Us Out of This Mess: Yunus' World From Micro to Macro

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 04.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Yunus, Microcredit, Bottom of the Pyramid, Trickle Down, Grameen, Social Entrepreneurship, Financial Crisis, Credit as a Human Right, Entrepreneurship, Native American, Cuba, Grameen-Phone, Economy, Business News
Vivian Norris de Montaigu

This time, instead of believing in the same old trickle down economics, know that it will be grassroots bottom of the pyramid building up.

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Can Software Bail-Out Unemployed and Troubled Companies?

Michelle Renee | Posted 04.10.2009 | Business

Read More: Reclaiming the American Dream, Obamas American Dream, Biz Plan Builder, Small Business, The American Dream, Unemployment, Self-Employed, Business Plan, Lemonade Stand, Software, Business Power Tools, Burke Franklin, Business, Entrepreneurship, Unemployment-Rate, Jian, Business News
Michelle Renee

I say, instead of looking at your job loss as a crisis look at it as a "mistletoe moment," an opportunity to change course and start a business of your own.

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Q&A with Dick Harrington -- Big Company Lessons for Small Businesses

Anthony Tjan | Posted 04.03.2009 | Business

Read More: Fortune 500, Small Business, Entrepreneurship, Business, Entrepreneur, Ceos, Business News
Anthony Tjan

Harrington: "The biggest issue is how well the entrepreneur can scale. It's important for them to realize that one person can't control everything, that they can't be VP of marketing, sales, and operations."

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So You Wanna Start a Website?

Meredith Barnett | Posted 04.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Unemployment, Startup, Employment, Jobs, Seo, Business, Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneur, Internet, Websites, New Media, Business News
Meredith Barnett

Web-based businesses are a lot harder than they seem. For every hit site (like this one), there are millions of disappointments. You just don't hear about them.

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The New Power Girls Style: Fashion Must-Haves and Style Tips For Busy Women

Patricia Handschiegel | Posted 03.27.2009 | Style

Read More: Business Fashion, Michelle Obama, Women Entrepreneurs, Michelle Obama Style, Women in Business, Business, Entrepreneurship, Workplace Fashion, The New Power Girls, Style News
Patricia Handschiegel

Power Girls know the value of looking the part. It's a natural element in their life and work.

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Who Wants To Be A Teenage Millionaire?

Chloe Spencer | Posted 03.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Internet, Entrepreneurship, Millionaire, Money, Conferences, Business News
Chloe Spencer

There's no reason why you can't be making as much money as your dad, you are only 17 years old, and already playing with the big boys.

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Prof. Schumpeter Comes to Hollywood

Chris Albrecht and John Penney | Posted 03.22.2009 | Media

Read More: The Academy Awards, Joseph Schumpeter, TV Viewership, Innovation, Media, Media Industry, Entrepreneurship, Media News
Chris Albrecht and John Penney

Dr. Joseph Schumpeter will never be the subject of a Hollywood-style biopic, but his ideas on the rise and fall of industries form the basis for the script the media business finds itself following today.

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Wealth Without Wall Street

Don McNay | Posted 03.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Small Business, Wall Street Bailout, Main Street and Wall Street, Cnbc, Too Big to Fail, Enron, Main Street, Don McNay, Insurance Companies, Cirtigroup, Small Business Administration, Wall Street Crisis, Bailout, Wall Street, Charlie Gasparino, Citigroup Bailout, Deregulation, Banks, Kentucky, CEO Compensation, Entrepreneurship, Bonuses, Entrepreneur, Wall Street Bonuses, Personal Finance, Soviet Union, Citigroup, Oregon, Business News
Don McNay

There has been a long and irreversible trend toward small, entrepreneurial businesses, located far from money centers. Instead, Washington keeps throwing money at these "too big to fail" money losers.

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The New Power Girls: Favorite Tech, Tips and Tricks of Today's Successful Women

Patricia Handschiegel | Posted 03.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Women's Entrepreneurship, Women in Business, Kathy Griffin, Business, Entrepreneurship, The New Power Girls, Business News
Patricia Handschiegel

Today's post wraps up The New Power Girls series on the HuffPost Business page. The series will move to the Style section starting next week. Please join us there!

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The New Power Girls: How to Inspire - and Be Inspired - in Business

Patricia Handschiegel | Posted 03.01.2009 | Business

Read More: The New Power Girls, Women Entrepreneurship, Business, Entrepreneurship, Women's Business, Women Executives, Business News
Patricia Handschiegel

The new brand of business women want to live by example and be an example for others to do great things with their lives and work. Most of all, they're doing it.

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The New Power Girls: How to Strike Balance in Business

Patricia Handschiegel | Posted 02.15.2009 | Business

Read More: Women Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Business, Work, Business Advice, The New Power Girls, Business News
Patricia Handschiegel

Today's successful women are the ultimate hybrid of power women of the past, a mix of 70s ambition, 80s determination, 90s CEO clout and modern style - all rolled into one dynamic package.

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You Aren't in Kansas Anymore

Susan Wilson Solovic | Posted 02.15.2009 | Business

Read More: Small Business, Corporate Employee, Steady Job, Small-Business Entrepeneurs, Recession, Layoffs, Small Business Owners, Store, Running a Small Business, SBTV.Com, Corporate America, American Dream, Office, Shop, Corporate Layoffs, Entrepreneurship, Tips for Owning a Small Business, Business News
Susan Wilson Solovic

Upon entry to the land of small business, remember people here speak a different language. No one cares what you used to do for Big Name Company. It's up to you to prove your value.

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The New Power Girls: Women Who Ignore Gender in Business

Patricia Handschiegel | Posted 02.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Oprah Winfrey, Women, Mark Cuban, The Crunchies, Martin Luther King, Women Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Tina Fey, Carl Icahn, Rupert Murdoch, Arianna Huffington, Business News
Patricia Handschiegel

When I look at Rupert Murdoch or Barry Diller, I want to be like them -- just as I do when I see anybody else who owns a successful media company, male or female.

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Making the Best of the Economic Mess

Don McNay | Posted 01.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Journalists, Wall Street Bailout, Self Help, Economy, Economic Crisis, Credit Card Debt, Credit Cards, 2009, Wall Street Crisis, Wall Street, Private Jets, Kentucky, Banks, Bonuses, Entrepreneurship, Auto Industry, Wall Street Bonuses, Personal Finance, Business News
Don McNay

I don't know how a Citigroup collector is going to convince an unemployed worker that he has a moral obligation to pay up. Thus, I am expecting huge credit card defaults in 2009.

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The New Power Girls: Business Women Who Know Their Company's Value -- And How to Stand On It

Patricia Handschiegel | Posted 01.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Women Entrepreneurs, Power Girls, Women, Women in Business, Entrepreneurship, Business, The New Power Girls, Business News
Patricia Handschiegel

If there is one trait I admire most about the women entrepreneurs... it's their inherent ability to not just recognize the value of their companies, but also, their refusal to be shaken from it.

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What's Happening at the SBA? Small Businesses Don't Know

Susan Wilson Solovic | Posted 01.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Small Business Owners, Small Business Administration, Small Business, SBTV.Com, Olympia Snowe, Entrepreneurship, Business, Entrepreneur, Barack Obama, Obama Small Business, Business News
Susan Wilson Solovic

The Small Business Administration was founded to strengthen the overall economy by helping small businesses start and grow. Does the SBA actually do what it's supposed to do?

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The New Power Girls: Fierce, Fearless Female Trailblazers in Life and Business

Patricia Handschiegel | Posted 01.15.2009 | Business

Read More: Women's Entrepreneurship, Women, Women in Business, Women Companies, Entrepreneurship, Business, Bill Richardson, Fearlessness, The New Power Girls, Business News
Patricia Handschiegel

Today's topic is fearlessness. It's without question one of the most common traits I've seen among the new modern women entrepreneurs I've met and know: they take enormous risks every day.

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The New Power Girls: How to Channel Rupert, Not Carrie in Business and Life

Patricia Handschiegel | Posted 01.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Women, Oprah Winfrey, Rupert Murdoch, Women Entrepreneurs, Women in Business, Entrepreneurship, The New Power Girls, Business, Business News
Patricia Handschiegel

Like many of the great moguls of our time, today's new modern women entrepreneurs follow their gut when it comes to their companies.

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Thriving, Despite the Economy

Ariane de Bonvoisin | Posted 01.09.2009 | Business

Read More: John Assaraf, Warren Buffett, Making Money, Entrepreneurship, Ariane De Bonvoisin, Economy, First 30 Days, Business News
Ariane de Bonvoisin

The news is impossible to avoid: the cost of living is rising, people are losing their jobs and the market is unstable. In times like these, it might ...

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The New Power Girls: New Brand of Business Women Channel Rupert, Not Carrie

Patricia Handschiegel | Posted 01.07.2009 | Business

Read More: Hilary Clinton, Women, Oprah Winfrey, Tyra Banks, Newscorp, Women's Entrepreneurship, Working Women, Women in Business, Tina Fey, Entrepreneurship, Women in Media, Myspace, Rupert Murdoch, Mark Cuban, Barry Diller, Business News
Patricia Handschiegel

Call it women's intuition on steroids, today's modern women entrepreneurs are tapped tightly to their gut and execute their plans from there.

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The New Power Girls: Putting a New Spin on the Old Boys Network

Patricia Handschiegel | Posted 12.31.2008 | Business

Read More: Women's Entrepreneurship, Women, Women in Business, Power Women, Business, Entrepreneurship, Business Women, Start-Ups, Business News
Patricia Handschiegel

Women collaborate when it comes to doing their work. In fact, looking back over the course of time, women around the world have always banded together to their benefit.

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Giving Thanks And Calling For Change

Michelle Cote | Posted 12.28.2008 | Business

Read More: International Assistance, Security, International Development, Afghanistan, Women Entrepreneurship, Business Council for Peace, Isaf, Women Entrepreneurs, Taliban, Afghanistan Conflict, Afghani Businesses, Bpeace, Violence in Afghanistan, Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneur, Afghan Taliban, Dhl, Business News
Michelle Cote

Violence in Afghanistan is threatening those who are working to establish legitimate businesses, and help the country transcend its identity as a battlefield.

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The New Power Girls: Business Women That Live, Do, and Think Bigger

Patricia Handschiegel | Posted 12.25.2008 | Business

Read More: Women's Entrepreneurship, Women, Women in Business, Media, Entrepreneurship, Business Trends, Business, Women's Business, Start-Ups, Business News
Patricia Handschiegel

Today's driven girls have their sights fixed on this and beyond. They expand on the legacy of women who've opened the doors of the past to reach for the sky more than ever.

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The New Power Girls: Inside the Hot New Trend Among American Girls and Women

Patricia Handschiegel | Posted 12.20.2008 | Business

Read More: Hilary Clinton, Women, Women and Media, Media Moguls, Working Women, Amy Poehler, Women in Business, Business, Arianna Huffington, Women Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Moguls, Business News
Patricia Handschiegel

Women aren't just interested in taking a slice of the corporate pie, but owning the pie, the bakery and the manufacturing company that supplies it -- and are making it happen.

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Encourage Your Kids to Ditch a Few Days of School and Become the Next Bill Gates

Chloe Spencer | Posted 12.20.2008 | Business

Read More: Entrepreneurs, Billionaires, Entrepreneurship, Kids, Conferences, Parents, Business News
Chloe Spencer

Turn your kid into an entrepreneur. Teach him or her about the value of passive income and of building assets--much more valuable than what the average school is teaching.

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