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Report Casts Doubt on Giving Small Loans to Poor Entrepreneurs
Global microfinance programs may not help reduce overall poverty in the developing world, new research shows. Read more
United Nations
Why It's Trending: The UN is meeting this week to discuss their Millenium Development Goals, which include the reduction of hunger and poverty worldwide.
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How to Shake Djibouti
The U.N. declares that nation- and business-building are related. Read more
Where Seed Money
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6 Lessons from World Entrepreneurship Day
The future is mobile, at least according to the entrepreneurs who gathered to mark the second annual World Entrepreneurship Day at the United Nations in New ... Read more
A Universal Cell Phone Charger - Finally!
Don't get to excited. It's not expected to hit the market until January 1, 2012. But, the Read more
Grist: Micromanagers, Unite!
Confessions from a real-life micro-manager -- and how our company can benefit from a little meddling. Read more
Grist: Micromanagers, Unite!
Confessions from a real-life micro-manager -- and how our company can benefit from a little meddling. Read more
7 Things You Should Know Before Starting a Business
Drop the rose-colored glasses. Tired of hearing would-be entrepreneurs speak about how smoothly their startup is going to go, seasoned tech vet and... Read more
Grist: The Rising Cost of Bad Advice
Given all the bad advice out there, business owners need to develop a healthy skepticism of the experts, recognizing that doing so requires more than just an... Read more
Blue is the New Green
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Bloggers Beware and Twitter's Revenue Model
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Fishing for Big-Name Partners
It's no secret that small businesses often struggle when it comes to getting an "in" as a strategic partner with larger organizations. But companies seeki... Read more
Marc Ecko is Not Giving Up
After a brutal year during which he was forced to sell off millions in retail assets, the urban wear entrepreneur is back, and he has an audacious goal. Read more
Financing: Where to Find It
Finding financing is a more complicated matter than during the dot-com years when money seemed to flow freely for any good idea that crossed the transom. Tod... Read more
My Visit with Ahmadinejad
I walked out on the roof of my building the other day and was a little surprised to see someone who looked a lot like the President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmad... Read more
Why Being Unreasonable Pays Off
Lately, it seems that I'm surrounded by thoroughly unreasonable people. I started the day reading an except from Read more
Happy Birthday, WTO?
An organization best known for sparking riots also deserves some credit for promoting the interests of American entrepreneurs. Read more
U.S. Leading Global Patents
Patent applications hit a record high last year, an international IP group reports. Read more
7 Tools for a Supercharged Documents Suite
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The Kindest Cut
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Why You Should Worry About Retention
Even if it seems that employers have the upper hand, a retention plan will make your workforce even stronger. Read more
Quanta Tapped for $100 Laptop
The world's largest maker of notebook computers has been tapped to produce a line of Read more
Will Texas Textbook Decision Spur On E-Readers?
Just removed from the 8th grade social studies curriculum in Texas: "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." - Martin Luther King, Jr., Let... Read more
CEO's Notebook
CEOs discuss: Avoiding audits; communicating with non-English-speaking employees; fishing for big-name partners; and a can't-miss plan for cutting costs. Plu... Read more
Beyond E-mail
A senioir vp and CIO discusses a range of messaging technologies that can run rings around e-mail. Read more
Europe: the Fast Track
The big European economies are stagnant, but if you look around you find some extraordinarysuccess stories. From his base in Prague, Ivo St. Kovachev is ... Read more
Five Ideas to Watch
Easy parking, better emergency response, free names, fragrant law enforcement, and precocious fashion design. Read more
Building a Global Alliance
Tacit Networks wanted to expand overseas but had few resources and no leads. So it found another way to go global. Read more
Making the Travelers' Century Club, Times Two
Dick Matland, president of Coronado Shores Co., has traveled to enough destinations to qualify for the Travelers' Century Club two times over. Read more
Top 10 Global Companies
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Google and Twitter Cozy Up to Local Businesses
Google and Twitter help companies manage their online presence. Sick of bending over backwards to Read more
Meet the Best-Connected 21-Year-Old in the World
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A Lesson From the World's Richest People
What strategies can you learn about running your business from Switzerland? Read more
Chambers of Commerce
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Lauren Bush and Ellen Gustafson, Founders of FEED Projects
The former president's niece embraces social entrepreneurship with a growing line of bags sold online and at Whole Foods. Watch video
Found In Translation
How to make the multicultural work force work. Read more
Offshore Drilling
Why foreign-based VCs are taking a closer look at U.S. firms. Read more
Financing and Where to Find It
Finding financing is a more complicated matter than during the dot-com years when money seemed to flow freely for any good idea that c... Read more
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How to File a Trademark
Protecting your business logo from creative theft is a crucial part of growing your brand. Here's how to file a trademark with the United States Federal Gove... Read more
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