Expanding Overseas

Former Yahoo executive Usama Fayyad, standing, presides over tech incubator Oasis500

Photograph by Zed Nelson/INSTITUTE

Syria's Tech Startups Find a Refuge in Jordan

An accelerator in Amman is recruiting Syrian startups

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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Crowdsourced in the U.S.A.
Quirky turns inventors' ideas into consumer products. Now it wants to manufacture them in America
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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
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Logistics

Itching for a Bite of the Lice Business
Treating lice infestations has become a thriving industry
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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
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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
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Financing

China's Next Export: Venture Capital
More Chinese investors are betting on U.S. startups—and they're offering more than money
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Profiles

A House Paint Reduces Bug-Borne Diseases
A Spanish company fights malaria with pesticides in house paint
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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
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Commentary

Want More Startups? Learn From Chile
The Chilean government's counterintuitive program that pays entrepreneurs $40,000 to bring their startups to the country is one development model worth replicating
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Profiles

A Startup's Tool Helps Evade Iran's Censors, for Now
The Silicon Valley software company's private network helps citizens around the world reach websites blocked by authorities
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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
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Policy

Small Businesses Caught in Battle Over Export Aid
Congress is wavering over renewing the Export-Import Bank before its charter expires at the end of May
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Reinventing Business

An Online Antidote to the Housing Bust
Houzz helps U.S. contractors find clients as far as Dubai
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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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