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What Do a Chemical Engineer and a Pizza Maker Have in Common?

A new report says government policies around the world often undermine entrepreneurs with potential to create high-growth ventures

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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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Advice

Integrated Marketing: If You Knew It, You'd Do It
The glut of places to advertise makes it easy to confuse customers with contradictory messages. Execute a strategy that integrates all your efforts
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Profiles

Old as New: Fixing E-Waste Instead of Scrapping It
A scrappy British electronics recycler finds profitability by repairing broken gadgets and appliances—and then reselling them
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Protect Your Company's Website From Malware
While most business owners are aware of computer viruses, they're less likely to guard against malicious software installed surreptitiously on their websites
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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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Profiles

The Letterpress Thrives in an iPad Age
A centuries-old technology catches on with entrepreneurs
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Profiles

Tapping Your Inner Gambler to Encourage Thrift
Save to play: A new website that encourages saving with prizes is partnering with credit unions across the U.S.
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Advice

More Reasons Not to Spy on Potential Hires
Common sense (and the potential for legal trouble) should dissuade employers from forcing job applicants to divulge their Facebook passwords
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Advice

How to Protect Your Company's Data
Most small businesses do not adequately plan for data loss. Experts offer advice on putting a system in place
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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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Commentary

Is Peter Thiel Just Messing With Us?
The billionaire PayPal co-founder pays teenagers to leave college. Now he's teaching a startup class at Stanford
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Technology

For $100, A DIY Kit for Watching Roach Neurons
A startup in Michigan has built cheap kits that monitor neuronal activity in a bid to explain the brain to students
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Policy

Women Inventors Double Their Share of Patents
Although women still lag men in intellectual property, a new analysis shows the gap is shrinking
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Technology

Stripe Aims to Reinvent E-Payments
The startup is being bankrolled, in part, by PayPal's founders
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Privacy

The Kill Switch Comes to the PC
A feature common in phones will let Microsoft remotely disable malware
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