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Small Business Platform

The Entrepreneurial Mind

The Tea Party movement seems to be capturing the attention of small business owners who want a voice. A new poll by from SmartBrief seems to affirm the fit between the Tea Party agenda and the needs of small business. Government is about strings; entrepreneurs are about bootstraps. can do our thing.

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Another View of Small Business Owners' Thinking

The Entrepreneurial Mind

Forbes has just released a survey of small business owners that offers some interesting insights. Small Business Outlook 2010" is a study issued by Forbes Insights , in association with CIT (the full study is available free on-line, but you do need to register to see it). No kidding!

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight On The Northwest

ReadWriteStart

At this week's One Million by One Million roundtable, we put a special focus on entrepreneurs in the northwestern part of the United States, and we had three presenters, all from Washington. We also had two other entrepreneurs who are working with the William Factory Incubator in Tacoma, Washington. Wise Mind Studios LLC. Social Pulse.

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How to Attract Talent to Your Start-up

www.inc.com

500|5000 The 2010 Inc. 500|5000 List The 2010 Top Lists Inc. 500|5000 Conference Honorees Resources Press Apply 2011 ); Topics > Leadership and Managing > Human Resources > Recruiting and Hiring Employees > How to Attract Talent to Your Start-Up At a start-up, you need employees that are in it for the long haul and fit your unique culture.

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Helpful Habits and Hacks for Working from Home

The Entrepreneurial Mind

The word from Washington (and the word from here in Tennessee, too) is that we better get settled in to working from home for a while longer. Even though I’ve been doing quite a bit of working from home over the years, it is an adjustment to be only working from home. So, I reached […].

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Outlook for Entrepreneurial Economy for 2011

The Entrepreneurial Mind

The last couple of years have been rough on small-business owners and a discouraging time for aspiring entrepreneurs. This is particularly bad news for most small businesses because they rely on customers who are willing to spend money to fuel growth in revenues. So what is the outlook for entrepreneurship in 2011?

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

What matters is proving the viability of the company’s business model, what investors call “traction.&# Of course this is not at all true of many profitable small businesses, but they are not what I mean by startups.) People talk about funding funding funding, bootstrapping, etc.,

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