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BizBox's Anonymous Banker explains how the federal government's small-business lending program has utterly failed, and which banks are to blame. Read More

It is easy to see the obvious differences in different cultures, but we sometimes forget to look for the differences in rules and regulations in different countries. When we dig a bit deeper and try to understand the reason behind these different rules, we may stumble across the key to a deeper knowledge of this different culture. Read More

How have you built trust in cross-cultural communication with international clients? Please share your tips for next month's cross-cultural communication challenge to cultivate trust. Read the tips for the 2 previous monthly cross-cultural communication challenges, to expand your mindset and get extreme with clarity. Read More

Jeff Cornwall of The Entrepreneurial Mind, a tireless defender of the free enterprise system raises the alarm on his blog about a study he says uses biased information to question the importrance of small business to the U.S. economy. If politics and its impact on the economy in general and small business and entrepreneurship specifically is a top Read More

A look at the definition of international business. Are "International Business" & "Global Business" the same thing? When determining whether a business is international or not, and when comparing how one business could be "more international" than another, perhaps the best thing is to look at the company's mindset. Read More

Think starting a business during an economic downturn is a bad idea? Maybe not, according to this story from The Economist. Though it focuses largely on IHOP's initial startup during tough economic times, there is also an interview with an expert and a survey of successful businesses that started during lean years. Read More

Too few companies know and too few states participate in this program that helps avoid layoffs while reducing hours. Read More

BizBox lays out what health-care reform would mean for small businesses--namely, hundreds of billions of saved dollars. Read More

Healthy competition is the bread and butter of capitalism, and Google is no stranger to stirring the money pot in its favor. But Google's latest decision to try its hand selling eBooks threatens to create a standards war that may prove destructive to many consumers. Read More

Marketing executives and entrepreneurs alike have rushed to China in the last decade. Yet, today, India offers an excellent, although somewhat misunderstood, alternative Read More