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6:14am: As the Big Three flounder, a new crop of insurgent automakers are reinventing the cars we drive. More
Dec 18: One bar owner's tale of the scary path to profitability. More
Dec 17: Luxury retailers are in a bind: Buyers are bargain-hunting, but price chopping can backfire for rarified brands. More
Dec 16: The nation's biggest banks continue to pull back on Main Street loans, but President Obama's prodding has some pledging to loosen the purse strings. More
Dec 15: Published 108 years ago, Buddenbrooks is a family business tale that will resonate with modern entrepreneurs. More
Dec 14: As President Obama demands banks do more for small companies, Bank of America says it will reverse some of its lending decline. More
Dec 14: Many of America's biggest tech employers were launched by immigrants. So why do we make it so hard for foreign entrepreneurs to do business here? More
Dec 11: The auto giants plan to field appeals from nearly 2,000 dealerships they shuttered. They're going to get an earful. More
Dec 11: Emerging from bankruptcy, CIT says it's ready to get back into the small business lending game. More
Dec 10: Ej4's Instant Video Presenter kit is winning fans among businesses that need to make Web marketing videos on the cheap. More
Dec 10: Transcending politics and ecology, an Israeli cosmetics firm goes global. More
Dec 9: Scientists and academics battle out the nature-vs-nurture debate. More
Dec 8: In yet another attempt to help small business, President Obama wants to shift funds from Wall Street bailouts to instead help Main Street create jobs. More
Dec 8: The improbable-sounding space elevator could reshape the global economy. Are you on board? More
Dec 7: A bakery entering its 13th year checks in with our Makeover squad for ideas on revitalizing its business. More
Dec 4: In the wake of an historic swindle, investment advisers face heightened suspicion and red tape. More
Dec 2: Small business owners are in the spotlight this week in Washington as policymakers confront the problem of widespread job losses. More
Nov 30: Biologist Andrew Logan turns waste from breweries into food for farmed seafood. More
Nov 30: K9 Storm's canine armor and communication systems help keep working dogs safe on the front lines of wars and police actions. More
Nov 30: A conversation in a hotel lobby led to a cancer detection breakthrough. More
Nov 30: A lunch drenched by melted ice prompted entrepreneur Paul Lavallee to rethink the ice cooler. More
Nov 30: For almost 80 years, aviation entrepreneurs have dreamed up winged automobiles. Here's why we're still grounded. More
Nov 30: One year on, we check back with last year's Next Little Thing picks. More
Nov 30: Wireless electricity. Invisible loudspeakers. A library on a sheet of paper. A mind-reading headset. Meet the entrepreneurs launching all this and more in 2010. More
Nov 30: To get her documentary Ten9Eight into theaters, Mary Mazzio made a pioneering deal with movie chain AMC. More
Nov 27: No frenzy in Red Bank, N.J., where merchants expect bigger sales as Christmas draws closer. A group of artists in Iowa gets an enthusiastic turnout at their buy-local market. More
Nov 25: Tight credit and slow sales are putting retailers in a crunch on financing their inventory. More
Nov 25: To aid native tribes in Baja California, entrepreneur Tom Hogan launched a charity that runs like a business. More
Nov 24: A startup helps political fundraisers get their online acts together. More
Nov 23: The Small Business Administration has run through the money Congress allocated to enhance the agency's most popular loan programs. More
Nov 23: An online-education startup aims for a whole new class of teachers and students - including you. More
Nov 20: Are these high-tech pens mightier than the laptop for taking notes? More
Nov 20: The L.A. Dodgers owners' messy breakup highlights a common plight for family firms: A marital schism can wreak havoc on the business. More
Nov 19: With no employees and shattered sales, a home contractor retools to outlast the recession. More
Nov 18: Small businesses took center stage as Washington power players convened to tackle the growing crisis in lending. More
Nov 18: Frustrated with off-site data hosting? Try virtualization. More
Nov 17: The bank is teaming with the legendary investor to boost financing and lending programs for underserved business owners. More
Nov 17: Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and Small Business Administrator Karen Mills will host a forum this week on how to get much-needed dollars to America's small businesses. More
Nov 16: Reports to the Treasury confirm what small business owners have known all year: Banks are cutting back on Main Street lending. More
Nov 16: How a case of midnight munchies sparked a price-tag revolution. More
Nov 13: At a barter network's annual holiday show and trade expo, business owners gather to grow their sales by swapping. More
Nov 13: A North Carolina entrepreneur wants America to fall in love with truffles. More
Nov 12: Wireless cameras, remote-controlled dead bolts, and other security tools for a price small companies can afford. More
Nov 12: President Obama's plan would give community banks access to low-cost capital for small business loans, but banks are wary of taking TARP funds. More
Nov 11: A lingerie designer uses meditation to help herself, her business and the world. More
Nov 10: Tech startups, fashion entrepreneurs and medical researchers are helping diversify the economy in Motor City. More
Nov 9: Five months after shutting down its credit card accounts, Advanta is filing for Chapter 11 as it battles mounting debt defaults. More
Nov 9: Gunshot monitoring technology scores big with local police. More
Nov 5: Small business staffs are still shrinking, a trend likely to continue even as the economy starts to thaw. More
Nov 5: No time to wade through security-camera footage? Help is at hand. More
Nov 4: E-signatures save time, money and paper -- but they're not for every kind of contract. More
Nov 3: CIT Group's collapse has been more than a year in the making -- and Main Street businesses began feeling the effects long ago. More
Nov 3: A toy retailer thrives by thinking like a kid. More
Nov 2: Despite the recession, business booms at a Texas dog park. More
Oct 30: Arson fires. Scrappers. Blackouts. It's all part of business for the last tenant in Detroit's Packard Plant, the decaying industrial complex that the city wants demolished. More
Oct 29: How two U.S. entrepreneurs are selling Chinese fashion to the post-Tiananmen generation. More
Oct 28: Small business grants are rare, but they do exist. Here's how to find them. More
Oct 28: Vinci cracked the majors by building relationships with up-and-coming baseball players. More
Oct 27: Charter Oak lost 10 employees - a third of its workers - in one swoop. Four years later, the company finally got its day in court. More
Oct 27: As traditional loans dry up, banks are funneling more of their small business lending through credit cards. More
Oct 26: Dispensing advice and vaccines for world travelers is paying off for this growing franchise business. More
Oct 23: Hit by the recession, a restaurateur revamps from scratch. More



QWe've run a dinner theater for three decades. We've been operating at a loss for the last couple of years, and are unable to get a loan. We even closed for two months this summer to save money. We don't know what to do. More
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