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Unemployment Insurance Tax - What The Media Isn't Saying

is it possible that an increase in UI taxes will cause businesses to fold? Company.com did a little digging.

Entrepreneurs Who Didn't Need A College Degree

For some of the guys on this list, it was a matter of building up enough money to start their own business. For others, success looks easy because they were ... and I can't stress this enough ... insanely smart. Like if they didn't go into business they'd be Bond-villains or President, right now. And there are a couple who caught a lucky break or had the right idea at the right time.

Ten Ways to Raise Capital

Money's too tight to mention. Or maybe you need money for nothing, because your product or service is still only available on the back of a coaster from the local bar. Fact is, if your business needs to get some extra money, there's a limited number of ways to do that -- here are ten of them.

10 Ways for Sales Managers to Ruin Their Reputation and Lose Their Team’s Respect

MeetingToWin has this great article about what not to do to get things done in sales.

Ten Sales Mistakes Small Businesses Make

Your sales team, and the revenue they secure for you, can make or break your business. So don't fall into these traps that can make you look like this is your first rodeo.

Five Lessons Every Small Business Can Learn from The Karate Kid

In middle school, me and my friends all wanted to be Danny Larusso. Rocky had turned the sports underdog story into a legitimate genre, but The Karate Kid series made it something that resonated with us in a way that Hoosiers just didn't. Okay, maybe it was because it was about kicking butt and getting the girl.

Five Lessons Every Small Business Can Learn from Dr. Horrible

If you've never heard of the movie or TV show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the name Joss Whedon will likely mean little to you. But then, so will the word "Internet." A couple of years ago, Whedon assembled some friends, including Neil Patrick Harris of How I Met Your Mother, and made a three-part web-based series, available to watch online, download from iTunes, and finally on DVD. It was hugely successful among nerds and geeks. It was called Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, and this is some of the wisdom we can glean from Dr. Horrible, himself.

Five Lessons Every Small Business Can Learn from The BP Oil Spill

At around 10 p.m CST on April 20th, there was an explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon, an ultra-deepwater, dynamically positioned, semi-submersible offshore drilling rig. The explosion was caused by a blowout after a gas bubble came up the pipeline, bursting through several seals and barriers. Ordinarily, pressure management systems would prevent this kind of event, but on the Deepwater Horizon, those systems failed. What lessons does the Deepwater Horizon teach small businesses?

Airline Quality Rating Report: Discount Airlines Are Most Consistently Reliable

For most small businesses, airline travel was consigned to the island of misfit perks a couple of years ago. Between the early bite of the recession, and the post-9/11 price increases for air travel, many companies changed the way they do business. And for some, that meant an end to sending execs to conferences in far away and exotic places.

Pants on the Ground: Tips for NOT Looking Like a Fool.

Larry Platt is a hero of the 1960s Civil Rights movement. But to you and me, he's likely to be much more closely associated with the song "Pants on the Ground," which he performed on American Idol in January 2010. Instead of looking at why Platt changed what his legacy would be, COMPANY.com takes a look at what business lessons we can learn from Platt's 15 minutes of fame.

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