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What's My Company Worth?
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Is Liability Insurance a Must to Go Global?
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Before You Buy That Small Business
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• Offset Your Investment Portfolio with Foreclosures

Entrepreneur.com - In the second of my three-part series on alternatives to house-flipping, I'm focusing on how to balance your potentially upside-down portfolio with foreclosure properties--or ...

• In a Pinch

Entrepreneur.com - As a company that connects home sellers with reputable investors, Southlake, Texas-based 1-800-CashOffer was hit by the economic slowdown earlier than other companies. CEO Jeremy ...

• In a Pinch

• Surviving the Crunch

Entrepreneur.com - Corey Llewellyn, 30, founder of New York City-based Digiwaxx Media, a multifaceted technology and media firm. Projected 2008 revenue: $1.8 million "Banks just aren't ...

• Sharing the Cost of Business

Entrepreneur.com - Many questions arise about the types of business-related expenses for which an employer can hold employees responsible. This responsibility means that employees must either pay ...

• Granting Geniuses

Entrepreneur.com - To be declared a genius is a high honor; a compliment to be sure, but also a big title to uphold. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation doesn't actually call its ...

• Rare Commodity

Entrepreneur.com - Could a little more estrogen in the VC mix bode well for women? According to the Center for Women's Business Research, women owned the majority share of 7.7 million firms in ...

• The Increasing Cost of Air Travel

Entrepreneur.com - In today's U.S. airline fare wars, base ticket prices may be on the decline in some cases. But carriers are making up for it by charging extra for services and conveniences ...

• Best and Worst Places to Buy a House

Entrepreneur.com - The housing crunch and the excessive inventory--exceeding 10 months on resale homes--continues to take its toll on housing prices. But over the long term, housing is still a good ...

• A Look Ahead

Entrepreneur.com - Last year's themes of real estate woe, falling interest rates, tighter credit and rising oil prices are likely to continue to play out for much, if not most, of this year. ...

• Making Cents

Entrepreneur.com - At Tom's Toys in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, some customers don't pay with cash or credit. Instead, they use a newly printed local currency that's good only in ...

• What's the Right Insurance for a Home-Based Business?

Take Command - Best business saving considerations for protecting a home based business

• How Do Investors Make Money?

Entrepreneur.com - When you're raising money for your startup, it helps to understand how the investors you're pitching will make money for themselves. The formula for paying investors is ...

• What Exactly is an Investment Banker?

Entrepreneur.com - Believe it or not, there was a time when no one knew what a venture capitalist was. Today, if you're a venture capitalist, you know you've arrived because, not only do ...

• Are Lawyers Required for Partnership Agreements?

Take Command - Top personal, tax and business formation issues that drive partnership agreements

• What the Founders of Microsoft and Google Have in Common

Take Command - School buddies can become successful entrepreneurs provided they agree to startup business goals

• Negotiating Startup Product Royalties

Take Command - Tactical considerations for licensing innovative consumer product ideas to bigger companies

• Finding Qualified Help to Buy a Business

Take Command - The fees and risks of using brokers to help buy businesses