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• Ten Eco-Business Subsidies You Should Know About

  On the fence about taking steps to save the environment? These incentives could push you over the edge.

• Will These Guys Kill The Next Google?

  A new crop of early-stage investors are going where traditional venture capitalists fear to tread. There will be consequences.

• Wal-Mart Gives Banks A Run For Their Money

  The mega-retailer is bringing its low-cost model to a beleaguered industry.

• The Accidental Jeweler

  Ben Yep's diamond-studded career has taken him from Hong Kong to Manhattan and back, and it all started with badminton.

• Get Paid Now

  Want to charge up your cash flow? Invoice and collect online. Here's how.

• Pete Carroll On Turning Around An Organization--And Yourself

  Words of wisdom from one of football's greatest coaches.

• A Better Way To Manage All That Virtual Paperwork

  Tame the entropy with Microsoft's Sharepoint 2010.

• What It Takes To Run A Sound Commercial Bank

  Joe DePaolo has a good recipe for building a bank fast: Find great bankers and pay them well.

• Are Your Best Customers Draining You Dry?

  Tracking overall sales and costs only tells you so much. Better approach: Do it for each individual account.

• Why Pitting Workers Against One Another Is Folly

  A new study draws important conclusions about appraising employees.

NYT > Small Business

• Is the Health Care Plan a Good Thing?

  Analysts offer differing opinions. What do you think?
  
  

• Marketing Makeovers for 9 Small Businesses

  For many owners, marketing does not come easily.
  
  

• The Start-Up's Chicken-and-Egg Dilemma, Part 2

  Readers react to Oh Baby's struggle to balance building inventory and building sales.
  
  

• Bedbugs Bad for Business? Depends on the Business

  Bedbugs are showing up in commercial settings, creating a bonanza for companies that deal with the scourge.
  
  

• Helping New Parents While Confronting Her Own Fatal Illness

  Karen Storek talks about the New Parents Network, which she has run for 23 years, and how she deals with A.L.S.
  
  

• BP Station Owners Face Long Road to Recovery

  BP owns just a fraction of the U.S. service stations that carry its brand, but independent station owners are suffering since the spill.
  
  

• Prototype: Matching Innovators With Shoppers

  Daily Grommet, a Web site, endorses companies that it says offer outstanding products and service; it gets a share of revenue from sales on the site.
  
  

• Wealth Matters: Finding an Alternative to Selling and Retiring

  With tough standards for bank financing, it is harder to sell a business, and how owners manage this reality will have a major impact on their wealth.
  
  

• Republicans Block Bill to Aid Small Business

  The procedural blockade underscored how determined Republicans are to deny Democrats any further victories.
  
  

• With Squeeze on Credit, Microlending Blossoms

  After banks denied loans, some businesses in the United States turned to microloans like those offered in the third world.
  
  

Reuters: Small Business News

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• Obama: U.S. can't afford to extend tax cuts for rich

  PARMA, Ohio (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, fighting to keep Democrats in charge of Congress, said on Wednesday the United States could not afford to extend Bush-era tax cuts for the rich and accused Republicans of being fiscally irresponsible.

  
  

  
  

• Data shows economic recovery still on track

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New U.S. claims for unemployment benefits fell more than expected last week to a two-month low, while the trade deficit narrowed sharply in July, hopeful signs for the stuttering economic recovery.

  
  

  
  

• EXCLUSIVE: Thuuz website aims to tip sports fans to hot games

  DETROIT (Reuters) - Venture capitalist Warren Packard hopes sports fans will stop listening to their friends and start heeding his new website to find out which games they should watch.

  
  

  
  

• Detroit, Los Angeles most stressful cities: poll

  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Detroit, Los Angeles and Cleveland are the most stressful cities in America, according to a new study.

  
  

  
  

• Management Tip of the Day: Mutual mentoring relationships

  BOSTON (Reuters) - The Management Tip of the Day offers quick, practical management tips and ideas from Harvard Business Review and HBR.org (http://www.hbr.org). Any opinions expressed are not endorsed by Reuters.

  
  

  
  

• Grandmother finds business idea in her purse

  CHICAGO (Reuters) - Frustrated that she couldn't find her lipstick, keys and other essentials in a stylish new handbag given to her as a gift by her son, Anita Crook came up with a solution. In 2005 she designed the Pouchee - a pocketbook organizer that Crook expects will fetch her close to $2 million in revenues this year.

  
  

  
  

• Farmer's 24 hour milk filling station a hit

  BERLIN (Reuters) - A German dairy farmer has come up with a novel way to drum up new business -- he opened a "milk filling station."

  
  

  
  

• Hiring remains weak among U.S. small firms: NFIB

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Employment at small U.S. businesses was subdued in August, although fewer companies cut jobs than in the previous month, a survey showed on Thursday.

  
  

  
  

• Fewer sellers cut home prices in Aug: Zillow

  NEW YORK (Reuters) - The percentage of U.S. home sellers who cut their asking price fell in August, the first time in five months, with price reductions holding steady from the month before, real estate website Zillow.com said.

  
  

  
  

• Exclusive: U.S. small business borrowing edges up in July

  CHICAGO (Reuters) - Small U.S. businesses boosted borrowing just slightly in July, data released by PayNet Inc on Wednesday showed, adding to signs the economic recovery is gaining little steam.