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In a new working paper called “Do Small Businesses Create Jobs? New Evidence from the National Establishment Time Series,” the economists David Neumark, Brandon Wall, and Junfu Zhang examine the National Establishment Time Series and conclude that small businesses create more jobs, on net, than larger ones. The earlier literature on this subject h Read More

Microsoft this week unveiled Microsoft Online Services for companies of all sizes. Previously, and somewhat incongruously, MOS had been available only to companies with 5,000 employees or more. Now, it's out there for the audience that seems most likely to crave it, SMBs.

MOS consists mostly of hosted versions of Exchange and SharePoint serve Read More

Marketing executive and author Lewis Green wanted to re-establish his company after moving across the country to Connecticut. With no professional network to tap, he figured the best way to promote his marketing and consulting business would be a blog. On his first attempt, he generated little traffic and few business leads. (registration re Read More

Linkbait works well at drawing in new readers, because linkbait posts have efficient headlines and readily digestible content, like lists. However, they get old, and some readers like myself, find that linkbait posts have little to offer after a while. Here's why Read More

Yelp! founder Jeremy Stoppelman, a former VP at PayPal, talks about how to rebound from difficult beginnings to go on to creating a site that millions of people visit every month. Read More

From the site: "One thing I've been pondering this weekend is figuring out why startups fail. But, in order to figure that out, I had to first decide what constitutes failure. The more I thought about it, the more I realized that a definitive failure is when the startup simply stops trying. And, the only reasons to stop trying are that you ru Read More

If you are in any business or interested in being more persuasive in your field, here are the 6 principles of persuasion that will help you be more persuasive immediately. It's powerful, effective and easy to read. Read More

Social media marketing can bring traffic and links to any website. What's missing — and essential — is proper measurement of these new techniques. Often times, social media marketing is dismissed before its true effectiveness is realized. Read More

People often use the phrase “born entrepreneurs” when referring to people who seem to have something that makes them innately entrepreneurial. Most of this discussion is casual and doesn't really consider whether some people are, literally, born with a genetic make-up that makes them more likely than other people to start businesses. But recently, Read More

Oooooooooooh it's on... Microsoft seeks to replace Yahoo board in proxy fight Read More