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Ken Gaebler knows that winning investor money is all in the pitch. A serial entrepreneur, Gaebler has raised $24 million for seven companies since 1995. Now, he sits on the other side of the conference-room table, as president of private-equity firm Gaebler Ventures in Chicago — and routinely watches newbie entrepreneurs present their ideas in a b Read More

When Amanda Raab started online jewelry business PurePearls.com in 2004, she was excited, motivated and energetic. Less than two years later, she was just plain exhausted.

Like many entrepreneurs, Raab learned the hard way that she needed to maintain a more healthy balance between the work she loved and the personal life she neglected. Many bu Read More

A combination of print and online local media is a more trusted and relied-upon environment for advertising than commercial television, found a new survey by TNS Media. The value of local media in advertising has been the subject of a study for the Newspaper Society's ongoing research project. It turns out that local media is a more trusted and re Read More

The New York Times has abandoned its "Times Select" subscription service. The Financial Times is making more of its content available free. Rupert Murdoch is widely rumored to be planning the same for The Wall Street Journal. Is this a trend? Several eMarketer analysts weighed in on the state of fee-based versus ad-supported online content. Read More

Microsoft is reaching out to help small businesses find IT support by introducing the Small Business Specialist Community, some 5,000 Microsoft partn Read More

With 53% of online shoppers early technology adopters, despite constituting just 36% of the North American population - retailers are feeling compell Read More

A new global study of consumers found that the most popular forms of Internet advertising score at the bottom when it comes to consumer trust. Nielse Read More

Too often, new products are created without adequate feedback and buy-in from prospective customers. That's the gist of the popular book “The Four St Read More

More than seven in 10 online retailers send out welcome e-mails to customers who sign up for their e-mail programs.
Welcome e-mails were a good opp Read More

Employee resignations and layoffs raise questions about network security and data security. Here are 7 ways to protect your small or midsize business Read More