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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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A daily roundup of the most compelling stories about small business and entrepreneurship -
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 -
Policy
Why Immigrant Entrepreneurship Is Stalling
A new report shows the rate at which foreign-born individuals start high-tech businesses has stagnated -
Policy
Ex-U.S. Ambassador Helps Companies Break Into China
Small companies get access to China thanks to Frank Lavin's business, Export Now -
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 -
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
Adeo Ressi on Entrepreneurs and Startup Culture
The Founder Institute CEO talks about how he picks candidates for entrepreneurship training -
Autos
Troubled Cleantech Companies Find Salvation in China
A123 Systems is the latest in a series of electric-car companies rescued by Chinese investors after stumbling in the U.S. It won't be the last -
Advice
Landing Overseas Distribution With Limited Resources
Before agreeing to an onerous deal to break into a coveted market, research financing alternatives and fulfillment services
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Expanding Overseas
To Fund a Startup, Go to Malaysia
Malaysia's government puts its money where U.S. investors won't -
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
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 -
Profiles
Crowdsourced in the U.S.A.
Quirky turns inventors' ideas into consumer products. Now it wants to manufacture them in America -
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 -
Patents
Can PolyPlus's Batteries Power the Future?
New lithium batteries could power cars and gizmos of all sorts—if recharging problems can be fixed -
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 -
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 -
Advice
Reimagine Your Company as an Upstart
You can't stand out unless you do something different—or differently—than your competitors. Identify a breakthrough idea, put it in place, and then tell your customers -
Financing
China's Next Export: Venture Capital
More Chinese investors are betting on U.S. startups—and they're offering more than money -
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 -
Policy
Why Immigrant Entrepreneurship Is Stalling
A new report shows the rate at which foreign-born individuals start high-tech businesses has stagnated -
Policy
Ex-U.S. Ambassador Helps Companies Break Into China
Small companies get access to China thanks to Frank Lavin's business, Export Now -
Advice
Landing Overseas Distribution With Limited Resources
Before agreeing to an onerous deal to break into a coveted market, research financing alternatives and fulfillment services -
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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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 -
Expanding Overseas
To Fund a Startup, Go to Malaysia
Malaysia's government puts its money where U.S. investors won't -
Profiles
A House Paint Reduces Bug-Borne Diseases
A Spanish company fights malaria with pesticides in house paint
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