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PowerBlog Review: The Small Business Blog
Editor’s note: This is the fourth in our popular weekly series of PowerBlog Reviews of other weblogs…
The Small Business Blog’s tagline is “The definitive Blog for Small Businesses and their Weblogs!”
And that right there tells you exactly what the Small Business Blog…
Film Piracy Threatens Small Businesses
When films are pirated and sold illegally, it hurts businesses of all sizes, large and small.
It may seem like that new hit film you enjoyed is the product of some large behemoth studio. But an entire ecosystem of small businesses is involved in getting that popular hit film onto movie screens. …
2004 Venture Capital Activity Up
A new survey shows that U.S. venture capitalists are more optimistic in 2004 than in the past three years.
Looking ahead to 2004, 84% of the VCs think the environment for entrepreneurs looking for early stage capital will be better than 2003. And 7 out of 10 venture capitalists expect to…
“Proxy” Banks Help Indian Farmers
Via World is Green (thanks Suhit!) comes this report about a new entrepreneurial approach to banking in rural India.
With nothing more than an Internet-connected computer and an ATM machine, a branch bank of sorts can be set up to give farmers and rural citizens in India access to loans,…
Optimizing Your Google Personality
A few months ago I posted an article over at Blogcritics about “Google numbers.” The post was rather popular so I thought I would post it here for readers of Small Business Trends. Here it is, along with an additional quote I’ve attached at the end from Faith Popcorn:
Do you…
The Environment and Small Businesses
Until recently, snowmobiling was one of the biggest winter draws for Yellowstone National Park in the western United States.
Then the National Park Service began to phase out snowmobiling for environmental reasons. The number of snowmobiles permitted to enter the Park was severely restricted. …
Rapidly Rising Steel Prices
We’ve been tracking a fast-developing situation: the rapid rise of raw steel prices. Steel prices in the U.S. have jumped 30% in the last two months.
In turn, that’s put a real squeeze on contractors and manufacturers that use steel for their products and building projects. Many of…
PowerBlog Review: The Enrepreneurial Mind
Editor’s note: This is the third in our popular weekly series of PowerBlog Reviews of other weblogs…
Looking for a weblog covering topics of interest to entrepreneurs? Try the Entrepreneurial Mind from Dr. Jeffrey R. Cornwall (PDF), director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at…
CPAs and Offshore Outsourcing
There’s lots of buzz in accounting circles these days about outsourcing the preparation of tax returns to places like India. And now the AICPA, a professional association for CPAs in the United States, has issued an Advisory opinion which clears the way for CPAs to outsource.
The Advisory…
How Small Businesses Pay for Technology
Perhaps U.S. small businesses should spend more time with their accountants:
A new study by HP shows that a whopping 46% of small businesses pay for technology purchases with credit cards (expensive!).
And, over half of the businesses were not aware of the U.S. Sec.179 tax credit available to…
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