Louis Lautman founded International Sales University, a sales training and development company that works with top Fortune 500 Companies and hosts public seminars. Here, he talks about how difficult it is to start your own …
Small Business
How I Turned Big Business Insights Into Micro-Business Success
Lea Woodward co-founded Kinetiva with her husband, Jonathan, to help entrepreneurs find their own path in life. Her projects have since garnered international media attention. Woodward talks about how she went from working a …
How I Did It: Dan Schawbel on Becoming a Personal Branding Expert
The founder of Millennial Branding talks about establishing his position as the personal branding guru for Gen-Y.
Is financial reform good or bad for business?
As the Senate continues debating financial-industry reform this week, I’d like to re-iterate a point I first made in a Time.com article: lots of businessmen are in favor of a sweeping overhaul.
You wouldn’t necessarily know that from reading the headlines, since headlines tend to capture the highest profile lobbying—like what comes …
The problem with more small-business lending as a creator of jobs
I recently spoke to the owner of a small company who is buying a new building. He is in an industry—energy-related—that happens to be doing quite well right now. Banks, he said, are tripping over themselves to loan him money. Three different lenders are competing for his business, which means that he’s been able to go to back to them …
The small-business recession isn’t over yet
Goldman Sachs economist Jan Hatzius writes that bad times among small businesses, which are harder for government statisticians to measure than the doings of big businesses, probably means the economy is growing slower than the feds say it is:
We have argued that the weakness of the small business sector may mean that real GDP in the
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