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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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Expanding Overseas
LaborVoices, Labor Link Help Workers Report Sweatshop Factory Conditions
Mobile phones may be the most potent weapon to fight abuse -
Expanding Overseas
New Legislation Neglects Small Exporters’ Biggest Need
Three bills would streamline programs that help small businesses sell abroad. A study finds that credit is what small exporters really need -
Expanding Overseas
How a Nevada Couple Sells Tattoo Gear Around the Globe
The company uses customer service to stand out from cheaper imitators abroad -
Middle East
Syria's Tech Startups Find a Refuge in Jordan
An accelerator in Amman is recruiting Syrian startups -
Technology
Expensify Brings Bitcoin to Main Street
A company that does expense reports for more than 200,000 businesses is offering the virtual currency to clients that seek to lower international transaction costs -
Apps & Software
China's Instagram and Other Tech Startups Look West
Chinese startups try to move from imitation to innovation and take on U.S. companies -
Small Business
Job Openings Rose, Lessons on China, Bonobos Shops That Don't Sell: March 13
A daily roundup of the most compelling stories about small business and entrepreneurship -
Financing
Coming to a City Near You: Chinese Business Incubators
Investors from China are building space to house U.S. startups that want to do business across the Pacific -
Expanding Overseas
To Fund a Startup, Go to Malaysia
Malaysia's government puts its money where U.S. investors won't -
Profiles
Portland Bike Maker Sees Made-in-USA Demand from Overseas
About 99 percent of bicycles sold in the U.S. are made in Asia. One Portland (Ore.) manufacturer still makes everything here and is riding a wave of foreign orders -
Policy
Move Your Startup to St. Louis, Get $50,000
Incentives have lured entrepreneurs from Chile to Oklahoma. Donors in the Gateway City hope their new program will pay off -
Policy
Extreme Franchising: Bringing RadioShack to Afghanistan
A new U.S. effort to shore up the country's economy: selling RadioShack and other American franchises to Afghan entrepreneurs. Outside of military bases, there aren't any -
Emerging Markets
Pakistan, Land of Entrepreneurs
Financier Arif Habib thrives by serving Pakistan's middle class -
Profiles
A Flooded Game Maker Unloads on a Shipping Giant
A New York game maker who lost "tens of thousands" of dollars in merchandise during Sandy sounds off because Maersk Lines is charging an additional fee to deliver goods he ordered before the hurricane struck -
Profiles
An Overseas Push for Video Software for Sports Teams
Students turned Jeffrey S. Raikes’s idea for football coaching technology into software with 200,000 users in the U.S. Now they’re trying to make it appealing for sports that are popular abroad
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Policy
Every Week Is Small Business Week. This Week It's Official
National Small Business Week is a Hallmark holiday for Main Street. It's also a window into the Small Business Administration's priorities and corporate sponsors' agendas -
Financing
Impact Investing: Lots of Interest, but Where's the Big Money?
A new report shows growing attention to developing-world entrepreneurs, but mainstream investors are waiting on the sidelines -
Expanding Overseas
Want More Exports? Do a Better Job Showing Entrepreneurs How
Small businesses account for 33 percent of U.S. exports. Streamlined government support would help them sell more, according to a new survey -
Manufacturing
Small U.S. Manufacturers Give Up on 'Made in China'
Put off by piracy and quality problems, small companies are returning to U.S. factories -
Profiles
An Italian Oven Maker Expands Amid the Euro Crisis
Italy's Bertazzoni, a 130-year-old manufacturer, has thrived by selling luxury kitchen appliances in its new U.S. market. Now it's betting on the BRICs—and Europe -
Expanding Overseas
To Fund a Startup, Go to Malaysia
Malaysia's government puts its money where U.S. investors won't -
Profiles
Crowdsourced in the U.S.A.
Quirky turns inventors' ideas into consumer products. Now it wants to manufacture them in America -
Financing
China's Next Export: Venture Capital
More Chinese investors are betting on U.S. startups—and they're offering more than money -
Profiles
Portland Bike Maker Sees Made-in-USA Demand from Overseas
About 99 percent of bicycles sold in the U.S. are made in Asia. One Portland (Ore.) manufacturer still makes everything here and is riding a wave of foreign orders -
Technology
Expensify Brings Bitcoin to Main Street
A company that does expense reports for more than 200,000 businesses is offering the virtual currency to clients that seek to lower international transaction costs -
Policy
Move Your Startup to St. Louis, Get $50,000
Incentives have lured entrepreneurs from Chile to Oklahoma. Donors in the Gateway City hope their new program will pay off -
Expanding Overseas
New Legislation Neglects Small Exporters’ Biggest Need
Three bills would streamline programs that help small businesses sell abroad. A study finds that credit is what small exporters really need -
Profiles
A 'Solopreneur' Makes Sleep Pay
Outsource, instead of hiring employees. Don't monkey with a proven product. Work from home. The founder of a $3 million monitoring-device business describes his strategies -
Profiles
A Craft Beer Brand's Winning Recipe? Outsourcing
Shmaltz Brewing won national acclaim without producing its own beer. Now it's finally opening its own brewery: in Brooklyn -
Policy
Ex-U.S. Ambassador Helps Companies Break Into China
Small companies get access to China thanks to Frank Lavin's business, Export Now
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Policy
Every Week Is Small Business Week. This Week It's Official
National Small Business Week is a Hallmark holiday for Main Street. It's also a window into the Small Business Administration's priorities and corporate sponsors' agendas -
Financing
Impact Investing: Lots of Interest, but Where's the Big Money?
A new report shows growing attention to developing-world entrepreneurs, but mainstream investors are waiting on the sidelines -
Expanding Overseas
Want More Exports? Do a Better Job Showing Entrepreneurs How
Small businesses account for 33 percent of U.S. exports. Streamlined government support would help them sell more, according to a new survey -
Marketing
Avon's 'Lipstick Evangelism' Shows Promise in Poverty Fight
New research about Avon's marketing operation in South Africa suggests that direct selling may provide a path from poverty for women in the developing world -
Profiles
Portland Bike Maker Sees Made-in-USA Demand from Overseas
About 99 percent of bicycles sold in the U.S. are made in Asia. One Portland (Ore.) manufacturer still makes everything here and is riding a wave of foreign orders -
Policy
Move Your Startup to St. Louis, Get $50,000
Incentives have lured entrepreneurs from Chile to Oklahoma. Donors in the Gateway City hope their new program will pay off
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Expanding Overseas
Want More Exports? Do a Better Job Showing Entrepreneurs How
Small businesses account for 33 percent of U.S. exports. Streamlined government support would help them sell more, according to a new survey -
Policy
Every Week Is Small Business Week. This Week It's Official
National Small Business Week is a Hallmark holiday for Main Street. It's also a window into the Small Business Administration's priorities and corporate sponsors' agendas -
Financing
Impact Investing: Lots of Interest, but Where's the Big Money?
A new report shows growing attention to developing-world entrepreneurs, but mainstream investors are waiting on the sidelines -
Advice
How a New IRS Form Affects Americans With Overseas Businesses
More than 50 million businesses that use third-party payment servicers such as EBay and PayPal will get the forms. The goal is to flush out income that was unreported in the past
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