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Your Small Business Questions, Answered
Send us your questions on challenges you face in your business. Journalist Karen E. Klein will interview experts and distill their insights into answers.
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Risking Retirement on Selling the Business
Many small business owners gamble their retirement on selling out rather than diversifying their assets. They also retire significantly later than employees do, two new studies show -
Benefits
Need Health Care? Start a Clinic
With its first medical clinic, the Freelancers Union is expanding from health insurance to providing plan participants free care -
Advice
What Does Your Retirement Plan Really Cost?
New disclosure rules require retirement plan providers to detail all costs associated with their 401(k)s. But they don’t apply to proposals from providers pitching their plans to employers -
Taxes
More Reasons Not to Fudge Business Expenses
Business owners who fudge expenses risk more than tax audits—weakening their balance sheet and undermining credibility with employees and investors -
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When a Small Employer Gets Sued by a Former Worker
As layoffs have increased, so have work-related lawsuits. Lawyers share advice on what employers should do -
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How Startups Negotiate Favorable Leases
As real estate markets improve in some parts of the country, attorneys share tactics for businesses with seemingly little leverage -
Policy
What Obamacare Means for Small Employers in 2013
One of every four business owners are uninsured, studies say, and small employers are more likely to terminate coverage -
Policy
Why Immigrant Entrepreneurship Is Stalling
A new report shows the rate at which foreign-born individuals start high-tech businesses has stagnated -
Advice
When Moms Who Run Businesses Take Maternity Leave
Marissa Mayer's plan to "work throughout" her brief maternity leave sparked vigorous debate. Absent much of the discussion: how entrepreneurs juggle their newborns and their work -
Policy
States Pass 'Baker's Bills' to Lift Struggling Households
A raft of cottage food laws in 32 states permit entrepreneurs to sell certain goodies made in home kitchens -
Policy
Small Biz Gets Plenty of Love, but Where's the Action?
Despite the rhetoric, small business owners say the candidates don't understand their needs -
Commentary
Don't Ignore Those Non-Job-Creating Entrepreneurs
The presidential nominees should explain how they'll help the Gig Economy's estimated 10.6 million self-employed Americans—even those who aren't planning to hire -
Policy
Why a Minimum Wage Increase Divides Small Business
The decades-old perception that small businesses oppose raising the federal minimum wage is changing -
Policy
A Boot Camp for Veterans to Learn Business Basics
Returning service members face high unemployment. The government thinks helping vets start their own businesses is part of the solution -
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Accelerators Try to Get Startups to Stick Around
From Cincinnati to Fayetteville, cities are betting that accelerators can breed high-growth companies. But will the entrepreneurs then stay?
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