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Legal issues are the part of running a small business some entrepreneurs hate the most. But attention to legal issues large and small will save you money, time and could even be the difference between success and failure. We’ve assembled some great content on the topic, so be sure to have a look at the post below and offer comments if you have something to add.
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Picking your small business legal form. As you put your company together, manyRead MoreFrom Small Business TrendsSmall Business News: Small Biz Legal Views Read more

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The relative difficulty that women entrepreneurs have in finding financing for their businesses has long been a topic of concern. Now a new project is aiming to improve women’s access to capital by mentoring and training women to become angel investors and eventually fund other women’s companies.
Pipeline Fund, a social venture fund founded by Natalia Oberti Noguera that invests in women-led for-profit social ventures, recently launched its Pipeline Fund Fellowship, the New York Times reports. The PipelineRead MoreFrom Small Business TrendsHelping Women Entrepreneurs Get Angel Capital Read more

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Start-Up, Boot-Up
Enter by April 25, 2011
Here’s a chance to get your start-up out of the garage with over $75,000 in servers and development tools!Read MoreFrom Small Business TrendsFresh List of Entrepreneurial Contests Read more

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This series is underwritten by UPS. Discover the new logistics. It levels playing fields and lets you act locally or globally. It’s for the individual entrepreneur, the small business, or the large company. Put the new logistics to work for you.

Here at Small Business Trends we like to discover what’s on the minds of small biz owners and entrepreneurs. So at the recent GrowCo conference April 6-8, 2011 in Las Vegas,Read MoreFrom Small Business TrendsTwo Burning Questions About Shipping Read more

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Trade Nassau
April 12, 2011, Woodbury, NY
Trade Nassau will bring together premier businesses from Long Island and the greater New York metro region. Exhibitors and attendees will have the opportunity to connect and network with entrepreneurs as well as local, regional and national corporations,Read MoreFrom Small Business TrendsEvents for Entrepreneurs and SMBs Read more

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Rhode Island Business Plan Competition 2011
Enter by April 4, 2011
The Rhode Island Business Plan Competition, open to everyone, seeks to promote entrepreneurship and developmentRead MoreFrom Small Business TrendsContests and Awards for Growing Companies Read more

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As I sit down to write this review, I’m getting this visual of an infomercial:
ANNOUNCER: Are you trying to run your business by reading every book on the “how to be successful” shelf?
VIDEO PLAYS: A tired, stressed and overworked entrepreneur struggling to read a book that’s precariously piled on top of dozens of other books.  He’s got reading glasses.  He’s taking notes.  Business books are falling to the floor.  He’s trying to answer customer calls!  He looksRead MoreFrom Small Business Trends“Now, Build a Great Business” Is a Business Owner’s Handbook Read more

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Back by popular demand, our second day of entrepreneur tips and tricks here in the small business news roundup at Small Business Trends. These basic tips from some great blogs and other news sources on the Web should help you with your current entrepreneurial ventures or help you begin new ones yet only envisioned. We hope you’ll add tips of your own in the comment section below and thanks again for visiting.
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Free online presentation tools for every entrepreneur.Read MoreFrom Small Business TrendsSmall Business News: More Entrepreneur Tips and Tricks Read more

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Entrepreneurs must wear many hats. Here are tips for just about all of them. Mastering various aspects of your business is an important aspect of what you do. Keep learning. Keep reading. Let this small business news roundup from Small Business Trends be your starting point.
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Awesome tools for entrepreneurs. The most successful entrepreneurs have the best toys. It’s not a question of having the most expensive or the flashiest. It’s a question of having the most useful toolsRead MoreFrom Small Business TrendsSmall Business News: Entrepreneur Tips and Tricks Read more

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Is your small business dealing with an increased workload and more demand from clients and customers? That’s a good thing. But with the economy still uncertain, many of us are leery about taking on full-time employees to help with the workload—even when we’re overwhelmed.
Well, there is a solution—and it’s closer to home than you might think. I first wrote about the trend of “ruralsourcing” on Small Business Trends in the summer of 2010, when several news outlets reportedRead MoreFrom Small Business TrendsMore Businesses Are Outsourcing—to Rural and Small Town U.S.A. Read more

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