Small Business

Magazine articles on entrepreneurship and products and services aimed at small businesses.

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Entrepreneur April 2004 Nichole L. Torres	Puttin' on the Glitz Dreaming of starting a glamorous business? Take a behind-the-scenes look at what it's really like to be a fashion designer, a restaurateur and more.
Entrepreneur April 2004 Nichole L. Torres	Beyond Borders These special wallpaper accents do more than just decorate walls--they also reflect a rainbow of cultures.
BusinessWeek March 29, 2004 Stephen H. Wildstrom	Info-Tech Relief For Small Business Small business is a huge market for information technology. Yet probably no sector is served more poorly, especially those businesses with five to 25 employees -- big enough to need a tech staff but too small to afford one. Microsoft's Windows Small Business Server 2003 and EmergeCore's IT in a Box both hope to close the gap but in very different ways.
HBS Working Knowledge March 15, 2004 Martha Lagace	Want to Start a Business? Just Do It There's nothing in the world like starting your own business, said panelists in the "Taking the Plunge" session at the 2004 Entrepreneurship Conference at Harvard Business School.
HBS Working Knowledge March 15, 2004 Sean Silverthorne	How to Sell in Start-ups Getting that first customer is crucial for a new business---but it's just the beginning. Start-up veterans discuss the importance of finding reference accounts and building sales teams at a 2004 Entrepreneurship Conference session.
HBS Working Knowledge March 15, 2004 Martha Lagace	The Perils of Hiring Friends and Strangers Finding the right people to fight on your side is one of the toughest parts of being an entrepreneur. In a panel at the 2004 Entrepreneurship Conference, four people who had spent time in the trenches shared lessons learned.
Inc. March 1, 2004	Diving Into The Media How valuable is press coverage, anyway? Plus, when investors say no.
Inc. March 2004 Gossage & Wasserman	SBA Slams the Door on Borrowers In an e-mail sent out on the evening of Jan. 6, the SBA announced that 7(a) loans were going on indefinite "holiday." Through the program, the agency's most popular, the SBA backs loans for thousands of small businesses that have a hard time raising money through conventional means.
Inc. March 2004 Lora Kolodny	Bad Patent Reform Pending patent reform could leave entrepreneurs unprotected.
Inc. March 2004 Rod Kurtz	Learning to Play the Game of Risk A new site helps would-be exporters calculate their risk.
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