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A 1,099-page piece of legislation contains about 1,099 details. Changing one of them in a major pension reform bill could make a big difference in employers' quarterly contributions this month, according to business advocates. The House and Senate are trying to settle on a final bill that would make technical corrections to the Pension Protection Act, which was signed into law in 2006. Most are relatively minor, but one that is drawing fire centers on an accounting technique called "smoothing." "Smoothing" reduces volatility by permitting the use of expecte
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Not every small business dream resides in the big city, or even a suburb. University of Alaska researchers surveyed 196 current and former rural business owners around Alaska to find out more about the barriers to business and whether they had any advice for people trying to start a small business in rural Alaska. These tips can very well apply across many other geographies and situations as well.
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Several major businesses committed to increase spending to develop partnerships with minority-owned enterprises under a five-year plan released by Chicago United on Wednesday. So far, 12 companies have joined the effort to increase the number of minority-owned businesses of scale in Illinois.
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Al Daniels is not your typical business owner. He is a military veteran and someone who is eager to give back to his community. He is a prime example of franchisees that Domino's Pizza is looking to recruit. Domino's "Delivering the Dream" program, in partnership with American Equipment Finance, LLC, grants financial assistance to elite minority team members so they may build their own Domino's stores.
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Women's Entrepreneurship matters -- women are creating and running businesses around the world, contributing to economies that represent more than 70 percent of the world's population and 93 percent of global GDP (2007). Women's entrepreneurship is a key contributor to economic growth in low/middle income countries, particularly in Latin America and the Caribbean according to The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) 2007 Report on Women and Entrepreneurship released today by The Center for Women's Leadership at Babson College.
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U.S. computer chip manufacturer AMD on Monday announced a platform of cooperation to target small- and medium-sized businesses. Called "Business Class," the AMD initiative aims to help computer manufacturers to produce systems tailored for small business.
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Giving employees license to express themselves creatively can be a powerful motivator, enhancing staff morale and making the atmosphere more pleasing for customers. It can also evolve into something that becomes an identifying marker that sets the company or retailer apart from the competition. For example, Southwest Airlines' flight attendants' funny, in-flight announcements.
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At the current rate of change, it will take women 47 years to reach corporate leadership parity with men in the Fortune 500, a national small-business speaker says. But Paula Jagemann didn't want to wait that long. Jagemann founded eCommerce Industries Inc., a $100 million software company. She also is a nationally known speaker and president of the only bioscience and information technology business incubator in Frederick, Md. She spoke on "Taking the Leap into Entrepreneurship" at the sixth-annual Central Exchange Women's Lyceum on Tuesday.
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Baltimore will be the first U.S. city to pilot a new social-networking technology to help small businesses expand their global reach, the Baltimore City Chamber of Commerce announced yesterday. Mayor Sheila Dixon endorsed the Internet-linked networking system, Toronto-based MarketTiger Inc. (www.markettiger.com), at a launch event at the chamber's headquarters. "It puts all the resources of the Chamber of Commerce immediately out there so people can find businesses faster," said a mayoral spokesman.
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Calling small business the backbone of the nation's economy, President George W. Bush stressed his Administration's efforts to foster "an environment in which the entrepreneurial spirit can thrive" in his proclamation of the week of April 20-26 as National Small Business Week.
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Studies have projected steady growth for the $1.8 billion men's grooming market, but until recently the specific needs of black and Latino men had been overlooked. Now, entrepreneurs are bringing top-quality grooming to the African American and Latino male and carving out a niche.
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Hundreds of small businesses in California say they can't afford to offer paid sick days to employees, but Assemblywoman Fiona Ma believes businesses actually could save money by doing so. The San Francisco Democrat's bill would let workers earn paid sick days that could be used to recover from illness, care for a sick relative or recover from domestic violence or sexual assault. Small businesses, however, vigorously oppose the bill, calling it another example of government imposing a financial burden on those already struggling to survive in a shaky economy.
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The idea behind Cloudworks, a Thousand Oaks company that started about 11 years ago, is to provide information technology service for small- to medium-sized companies in a novel manner: hosting applications at a remote location, to minimize costs and on-site technology needs.
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Small business owners are an optimistic lot, even when they're pessimistic. That apparently contradictory result leaped from the National Small Business Association's "2008 Survey of Small and Mid-Size Business."
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Franchised businesses provided more jobs in 2005 than all manufacturers of durable goods, such as computers, cars, trucks, planes, communications equipment, primary metals, wood products and instruments. Franchised small businesses generated more jobs between 2001 and 2005 than several of the nation's major economic sectors, including durable goods manufacturers, according to new research released recently by the International Franchise Association Educational Foundation.
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Al Daniels is not your typical business owner. He is a military veteran and someone who is eager to give back to his community. He is a prime example of franchisees that Domino's Pizza is looking to recruit. Domino's "Delivering the Dream" program, in partnership with American Equipment Finance, LLC, grants financial assistance to elite minority team members so they may build their own Domino's stores.
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