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Letting employees take part in decision making may boost productivity and profits.
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Web tools help entrepreneurs work better, faster, and cheaper.
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While Fed rate cuts and high oil prices rattle businesses, smaller players have some advantages.
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With exports surging thanks to a weak dollar, small companies are finding ways to boost sales abroad.
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Aging boomer entrepreneurs are getting ready to put their dreams on the market.
Chuck Comeau with designer fabrics designed and sold by DessinFournir from their Plainville, Kansas headquarters. (Scott Goldsmith/Aurora for USN&WR)
A fledgling movement in rural America is boosting homegrown entrepreneurs over imported factories.
Some say that small businesses will be conservative and hold back on investments to see where the economy goes.
Other than the familiar long hours, farm life is a learning experience for a city guy.
The founders of RealClearPolitics.com combined passion with Internet savvy to become a online political mainstay.
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There are 22 million businesses in the United States with five or fewer employees. Together, they produce more than $1 trillion in annual revenues.
Two in three bosses worry about their businesses when they're out of the office. Fully 75 percent check in by phone or E-mail even when they're on vacation. But is all this work good for business?
Not all breakthrough ideas come from the minds of solitary geniuses. Research shows that people working in groups are far more innovative than previously thought, and forward-thinking companies are banking on the "wisdom of crowds."
Andy Kruse and David Calley teamed up 20 years ago to form Southwest Windpower, which is poised to profit from the heightened interest in renewable energy.
Small farms are harnessing the rising interest in locally grown food and using savvier marketing and management to stay afloat.
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