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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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Selling Peace of Mind to Sell More Used Stuff
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When Designers Want Their Clothes 'Made in the USA'
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A Flooded Game Maker Unloads on a Shipping Giant
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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 -
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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Profiles
At Least Someone’s Happy About Apple Maps
Startup navigation app Waze is enjoying an unexpected endorsement from Apple's Tim Cook -
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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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 -
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Heating Up a New Category: Refrigerated Pet Food
Convincing retailers to let Freshpet install coolers in their stores to keep its fresh dog food from spoiling was an early hurdle -
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
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