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Too many small businesses have no specific plan for employee salary increases. As a result, these companies give salary increases based mostly on spontaneous decisions or employee demands. The uncertainty leaves employees anxious about their…

When the founders of young technology companies need to secure loans and set up lines of credit, they often can’t turn to conventional banks, because those institutions rarely loan money to start-ups without revenue, profits…

Is this the time for corporate VC funds to run dry? Hardly, says Harvard Business School professor Henry W. Chesbrough. You just need to understand the big picture, as do Microsoft, Intel, and Merck. by…

Imagine your ideal employee. What is he or she like? Someone who comes in early and leaves late? Someone you can bank on putting forth 100 percent-plus effort? By Anne Wolfinger – 03/24/02 The Independent…

You can learn a lot from your competition. By analyzing your competitors, you can anticipate new opportunities and developments in your market, make better operations decisions and more effectively evaluate your own strengths and weaknesses….

Just when the worst of the startup attrition appeared to be over, a new study portends further casualties among today’s survivors. by Vyvyan Tenorio The Deal.com If venture financing continues to be constrained as it…

When Michael Dell was a 19-year-old freshman at the University of Texas at Austin, he raised a little cash by selling computer clones from his off-campus apartment. Business was so good, he didn’t bother registering…