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SBA Launches Mentoring Program For Startups

The U.S Small Business Administration has launched an initiative to get current business owners to mentor and support startups and entrepreneurs and help them become the next generation of American companies.

5 Tips for Encouraging Innovation

How is your business doing with innovation? Is it slow, or is your business pumping out innovations like Apple and Google? Most likely, your business is not like either of the named tech giants, and if it were, you probably wouldn’t be visiting this SMB website.

Gen Y Forecast To "Fuel Small Business Growth"

When it comes to small firms that'll be created in the next five years, members of Generation Y will be behind more of them than any other demographic, judging from a new report.  Employers (the insurance specialist that takes an all-caps approach to writing its own name) found that a whopping 46 percent of 18-to-25-year-olds mean to follow that path.

What Startups Do and Do Not Need

What does it take to start a business? There are some things that one business would consider important that another business would not. However, there are also some fundamentals with starting a business. Chris Dixon, a well-known angel investor and entrepreneur, has had his share of experience with startups and even compiled a list of things startups do and do not need.

Things To Ask Youself Before Starting a Business

ReadWriteStart, a new channel from ReadWriteWeb has a nice list up about 10 things to be clear about before you start a company. I thought this would be worth sharing here at SmallBusinessNewz.

Small Business Social Media Adoption

Last week Vertical Response discussed results from a survey it conducted, which looked at how startups fare in adoption of social media and online marketing practices, versus their more established counterparts. Key findings from the survey include:

Most Entrepreneurs Fail.

Browsing through my feeds this morning, I came across an interesting little list from Rich Whittle at the Business Opportunities Weblog, though it originated from Inc.com. The list is of 5 mistakes that entrepreneurs make. Without getting into all of the details of the Inc.com post, the list goes:

Don't Spread Your Business Too Thin

I was reading an article today called "Combining Existing Business Concepts" at Small Business Compendium. The topic of the article is pretty clear from the title. They cite YouTube who combined TV and the Internet. They also cite Google who has branched out from being simply a search engine to providing all kinds of services like maps, blogs, and all of their wonderful tools (not to mention buying YouTube).

UK Startup Numbers Remain Strong

Businesspeople in the UK aren't being scared off by the current world economy.  Data from Barclays Bank shows that the recent numbers relating to startups and closures have both remained quite respectable.

6 Simple Startup-Building Steps

Here are the six simple steps for building a startup (in this case, a software startup).