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Karen Lasher, chef and owner of Around the Table, Camas, Washington, talks about how to start a catering business. From the business plan to choosing the kind of catering you want to do to developing your specialties, this video has it all for the adventurous food entrepreneur who wants to try this exciting field. Read More

This comprehensive article about how to start a retail business comes from Entrepreneur.com and is a very complete overview. It includes sections on the kinds of retail businesses the perspective entrepreneur might start, a look at buying businesses including franchises and even a look at the kind of personality someone should have to begin a reta Read More

In this video, Steve Hoffman talks about how an idea to move into postcards from higher end photographic work helped grow his company considerably. Hoffman and his employees used the latest in digital technology to expand their offerings and slowly move into totally new services that eventually became the main focus of their business. Read More

Colin Kimball, 31, is co-founder of the one-and-a-half employee Web-media company Small Screen Network and a good example of today's new media entrepreneur. This is a fantastic entrepreneur profile that provides inspiration for anyone considering starting a small business, showing how anyone with a little gumption and stick-to-it-iveness can boot Read More

Small business-minded people will find this marketing report by a large corporation's intern, extremely useful for pointing out Internet trends. It's all important for a small business owner to know what marketing tools to invest in, what products to develop. This year's 15 year old is going to be your customer in 5 more years, so how they feel Read More

Are management consultants mostly for the birds? Are you far better off trying to figure out your own management style, especially in small businesses? Some hard criticisms are leveled at management gurus by author Matthew Stewart in his new book The Management Myth: Management Consulting Past, Present and Largely Bogus. Check out the brief review Read More

This video from www.watchmojo.com talks about business equity financing as an alternative to debt financing when starting a business of any size. The video covers stages of financing from seed funding to public offerings. Though you may not be thinking of starting the next Silicon Valley titan, the ideas may give you a new way of looking at dealin Read More

In this blog post, Lynette DeNike gives five suggestions about how to run a smarter small business. Her suggestions are specific for businesses grappling with the economic recession including the suggestion to "Change your product mix". There is also a common sense recommendation about bartering for services. Read the article for more of Lynette Read More

How do you go about creating a small business with Zazzle, one of a number of new Websites offering content upload and sale of designs for T-shirts, mugs, hats etc. at no initial cost. Bonnie at Squidoo gives some tips in this great lens and even a list of Websites where you can publicize your creations. The possibilities seem endless for a design Read More

Small business startup funding can be an issue for several reasons, according to Janet Attard at BusinessKnowHow.com. It can take money both to start your business and to replace your income when you leave your job to pursue your new venture full time. Here are 10 suggestions, some that you may not have considered, for funding of your small busine Read More