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Improve yourself and improve your business. Business coach Brad Sugars speaks with youngentrepreneur.com about being the kind of entrepreneur and the kind of person you want to be. Read More

A friend and business partner sent me these points on how to fund a business startup. The advice is from serial entrepreneur Naval Ravikant at Microsoft BizSpark. Read More

Starting a family business presents many challenges, experts say, but sisters Brenda and Mary Maher bucked the odds with their successful baking business Cakegirls. Read More

Here are SCORE's 7 steps for small business success. My favorite suggestions are to identify a niche and to avoid competing on price. Read More

Australian business coach Greg Chapman discusses the steps of small business development. Most interesting is his analysis of a mature business and the suggestion that businesses that are coasting at this point without growth and evolution may actually be in the first stages of decline. Read More

An entrepreneur tells how to start a business with bootstrapping. Greg Gianforte recounts the story of starting his successful Montana-based company RightNow Technologies with no capital investment. Read More

There are important questions to answer when choosing a bank for your small business. SmallBusiness.com provides some answers. Read More

Entrepreneur.com gives these 50 suggestions to save money for your business. Read More

Guru Rieva Lesonsky gives advice on small business during tough economic times on Microsoft Small Business Summit. Topics include improving your "elevator pitch", opportunities during economic downturns and networking. Read More

Consultant Ben McConnell explains the company cultures that can create both good and bad word of mouth marketing for your business. Read More