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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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The Translation Industry Interprets 'Recession-Proof'
Government data and company executives suggest that entrepreneurs looking to start translation and interpretation businesses need not fear machine-translation services -
Commentary
The IPO Market Closed After Facebook. That's a Good Thing
The initial public offering is more about enriching investors than helping startups grow. Entrepreneurs need better options -
Profiles
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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Small Businesses Team Up to Land Federal Contracts
Subcontracting and partnering can help entrepreneurs break into the lucrative world of government work -
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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Don't Let 'Showrooming' Sabotage Your Shop
Here are ways to discourage those customers who try out products in the store and then purchase them online -
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Trying to Maintain Your Online Reputation
It's nearly impossible to squelch negative online material. A good-faith, public effort to deal with the problem may turn detractors into advocates -
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Making the Web's Subscription Economy Hum
As online ventures embrace subscriptions to sell products that range from condoms to clothing, they're outsourcing billing and other chores -
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How Social Media Is Changing CRM
New customer relationship management tools are letting companies communicate with customers rather than just thrust messages at them -
Profiles
The Gas Station of the Future Just Opened
Propel Fuels is using more than $20 million in grants and $19 million in venture capital to build 100 alternative-fuel filling stations across California -
Advice
The Latest Domain-Name Gold Rush
A initiative to introduce new top-level domains has spurred thousands of businesses and individuals to apply to control a piece of digital turf -
Profiles
Walking Shoes That Spy on Grandma
Two small U.S. companies recently launched a line of footwear that uses a GPS device embedded in the heel to track seniors -
Profiles
Monetizing Which Way the Wind Blows
Weather Underground recently released a tool to help businesses find patterns in their sales -
Policy
Hospitals Seek Startups to Cure Tech Ills
A new accelerator for health IT companies is working with health-care providers to find crucial new technologies -
Advice
When Should Domain Names Match Company Names?
For businesses selling to other businesses, it doesn't much matter. Even most ventures targeting consumers shouldn't sweat it in their early days
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