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Is Now the Right Time to Buy a Business?
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• Young, Fearless and Fed Up
Entrepreneur.com - How many of you dread Sunday nights because you know that the next morning you have to show up for a job you can't stand?  How many of you have a boss that you know ...
• Don't Cut Out the Middleman--Become One
Entrepreneur.com - Roommates Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia had a problem.They loved their San Francisco apartment, but it was more expensive than the wannabe entrepreneurs could afford. So when a ...
• 8 Thriving Travel Markets
Entrepreneur.com - Many types of online businesses come and go in the blink of an eye. But the trillion-dollar travel industry continues to grow by leaps and bounds, creating a big demand for ...
• Why You Should Buy a Business
Entrepreneur.com - As someone who helps prospective and existing business owners for a living, I am heartened by all the media attention aimed at helping people find employment and survive this ...
• Start a Restaurant in a Down Economy
Entrepreneur.com - So you're thinking about opening a restaurant. The allure of fame and fortune seduces you, your love of food drives you, and you want to heat up your life in an exciting ...
• Crafting: A Silver Lining in a Tough Economy
Entrepreneur.com - In economic times like these, the urge to hunker down in your house, limit spending and jump off the merry-go-round of shopping, credit and consumerism can be strong. And one way ...
• Add Some Green to Your Inventory
Entrepreneur.com - Selling green products is a process that began to gain momentum in the last four years for Bill Snider, owner of an Ace Hardware store. Offering green items is part of a plan ...
• Top 10 Reasons to Start a Business in a Recession
Entrepreneur.com - Do you have one good reason to start your business right now? How about 10? Regardless of what people around you (including the media) may say, right now is the best time to get ...
• Entrepreneurs Remix the iPhone App
Entrepreneur.com - Austrian Michael Breidenbruecker had the same idea in his head for nearly 10 years: Create a software application that provided a personal soundtrack to your mood, movement and ...
• Rev up the Search Engines
Entrepreneur.com - Your web startup needs to cut through the clutter and reel in customers, and search engine optimization (SEO) can be just the ticket. SEO helps improve your search rankings so ...
• Not Ready to Retire?
Entrepreneur.com - Judith Moore, 61, founder and CEO of Charleston Cookie Co. in Charleston, South Carolina, turned her lifelong baking hobby into a profitable business and considers herself too ...
• 5 Green Businesses You Can Start at Home
Entrepreneur.com - If anything's hot in today's economy, it's saving money, including a broad range of green businesses helping people save energy, water and other resources. For those ...
• Are These Businesses Still a Good Idea?
Entrepreneur.com - A lot can happen in two years. The iPhone, for instance, has gone from newly released to nearly ubiquitous. As we've witnessed, the economy has changed drastically. Business ...
• When Recession Equals Opportunity
Entrepreneur.com - It's a sad fact that pretty much everybody knows people who have lost their jobs in this recession. But sometimes, hard times can turn into opportunity. An article in USA ...
• Journalism Caught in a Web
Entrepreneur.com - The once-mighty Los Angeles Times has nearly halved the 1,500-strong editorial staff it had 10 years ago. In the last year alone, the paper put more than 100 top-flight writers ...
• How You Can Leverage a Layoff
Entrepreneur.com - Diane Lindquist is a four-decade veteran of journalism and an expert on the trade economy of the U.S.-Mexico border. When the San Diego Union-Tribune offered her a buyout in ...
• Cash in on Your Network
Entrepreneur.com - As if maintaining a social life and staying afloat academically all while building a successful business isn't difficult enough, college entrepreneurs must deal with skeptical ...
• Is DNA Mapping in Your Entrepreneurial DNA?
Entrepreneur.com - Harvard geneticist George Church, 54, is co-founder of the Human Genome Project and the Personal Genome Project. More than anyone in his field, he's helped open up DNA mapping ...
• Laid Off in 2008? Start a Business in 2009
Entrepreneur.com - When Ashish Gadnis was laid off from his position as president of a Minnesota software development company, he managed to launch his new life before even leaving the parking lot. ...
• Power Rangers
Entrepreneur.com - "We like it when people take public transportation," says Smith, 41, as he pulls up to the San Bruno, California, BART station. At 11:30 a.m., the station seems more ...

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