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4 Keys To Starting An Online Business

Posted by Fredric Paul 03:29 PM ET | Aug 25, 2009

Robin Kohli -- lead developer of E-Junkie and an ýaccidentalý entrepreneur -- offers up four helpful tips to jumpstart the creation of a new Web-based business.

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Glide Engage Is No Twitter

Posted by Gayle Kesten 11:57 AM ET | Aug 4, 2009

Micro (adj.): very small; involving minute quantities or variations. Sorry, I just had to double check that definition after reading about a new "microblogging" service that wants to take on Twitter.

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New Company Targets Web-Based Malware And Blacklists

Posted by Keith Ferrell 05:52 PM ET | Jun 17, 2009

Dasient, a security startup started up by former Google engineers, among others, is targeting malware that has your Web sites targeted, as well as monitoring your sites for their presence on blacklists. That last, as any business that's been blacklisted can attest, can be deadly.

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Business & E-Business | Internet/Web | Security | Start-Ups

Netbooks.com Becomes WorkingPoint, Re-Launches Free* Cloud-Based Business Management App

Posted by Fredric Paul 11:22 AM ET | Jun 16, 2009

What's in a name? For Netbooks.com, it was confusion when the business-management vendor's name became the common term for low-cost mini-laptops. So the company is relaunching as WorkingPoint.com as it takes its small-business management app out of beta.

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How To Calculate Your Odds Of Business Success

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 11:18 AM ET | Jun 9, 2009

Calculators provide clear concise answers -- that's the appeal, but for a question as complex and abstract as "will my business succeed" reducing probability to a single percentage is more parlor trick than useful tool -- fortunately a new free online calculator looks (a little bit) deeper.

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Big-Time Data Warehousing At Small-Biz Prices

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 08:34 AM ET | May 28, 2009

Open-source software gives smaller companies access to enterprise IT tools -- without paying enterprise IT prices. And no IT vendor illustrates this trend better than Kickfire.

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Business Owners Don't Fear Recession

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 12:15 PM ET | May 22, 2009

The recession is scaring the bejesus out businesses of every stripe, but owners of small and midsize businesses have been to the brink of failure before -- many times -- and know how to survive.

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Business & E-Business | Company Size: 1-49 | Entrepreneurs | Management | Start-Ups

Crisis Survival Kit: 5 Ways To Fund Your Business

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 10:59 AM ET | Apr 2, 2009

Need a cash infusion? You can forget about banks or VCs? Those traditional funding sources are strapped or stingy or both. If your businesses needs a significant investment to tap a new market, lock down the one you have, or upgrade equipment, you'll need to get creative.

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10 Social Networking Sites For Your Business

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 10:52 AM ET | Mar 24, 2009

Between Facebook and Twitter, is there room for other social networks? Not only is there room, but the networks that aren't in the headlines every hour may be exactly the places you should be considering invaluable business resources.

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bMighty News Flash: Tuesday March 10, 2009

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 12:21 PM ET | Mar 10, 2009

SMB news: Mac netbook, social network growth, crippled Win 7, free CRM, mobile PayPal, domestic outsourcing, startup funding, SMB optimism & stimulus, smartphone growth, Clearwire CEO, broadband growth, rugged laptop, collaboration platforms, cloud endorsement...

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Where's The ROI For Trade Shows & Conferences?

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 04:13 PM ET | Mar 9, 2009

SXSW Interactive starts later this week. The question for business owners is whether this event or any other is worth the expense in this economy.

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bMighty News Flash: Monday March 9, 2009

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 11:54 AM ET | Mar 9, 2009

SMB news: iPhone Apps top Win Mobile, Google docs & Adobe PDF bugs, online payroll for Mac, Netgear switch, recession threatens green IT, IE8...

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What DEMO 09 Offers SMBs

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 06:47 AM ET | Mar 4, 2009

Amid the thicket of announcements from DEMO 09 this week were a host of products and services that small and midsize companies may put to use.

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Bill That Boosts Spending On Small Business Programs Halfway Through Congress

Posted by Gayle Kesten 02:18 PM ET | Feb 27, 2009

Following the legislative process makes me all the more appreciative of the flexibility that defines small businesses.

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Company Size: 1-49 | Company Size: 50-249 | Economics | Government | Start-Ups

Crisis Survival Kit: 6 Ways To Appear Big Enough For The Job

Posted by Jennifer Moline 03:24 PM ET | Feb 19, 2009

Smaller companies aren't going to get a bailout, leaving them to their own devices to build business. Here are six ways to cast a larger shadow so that you can stay competitive in your quest to gain customers.

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