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To save the cash she needed to launch her new beauty product, Brandy Jans traded her pricey Manhattan digs for room and board with Mom and Dad.

A good showing at Austin's South by Southwest Interactive festival can carry you down the path to startup glory. Here's a last-minute checklist.

A boudoir photographer focuses on customers' private moments.

New York investors make predictions as to which sectors will receive funding in the coming year.

Most entrepreneurs expect to face the "normal" challenges of starting a business, which include finding the right opportunity, building and executing a winning plan, and financing their

Four entrepreneurs find more than pocket change in their couch.

While some block sidewalks on Wall Street and elsewhere, other unemployed citizens are going in a more productive direction: They're starting businesses.

Venture capital dollars have been largely scarce since the downturn set in. But these days, that tide appears to be turning.

With still tight credit conditions, taking out a home equity loan can be tempting. But it's a mistake.

Keeping your day job while starting a business is a tried-and-true way to ease into entrepreneurship without going broke. But it can also leave you bleary-eyed from lack of sleep and without even a shred of personal life. That’s a “recipe for disaster,” says Kristin Cadinale, author of “The 9-to-5 Cure.” Running a side-business or […]

How to embrace the global, financial and social changes affecting your business this year.

Consider these five business goals as you embark on a new year.

Adam Brotman, Starbucks vice president of digital ventures.

Here's what to consider when choosing the right path for your business.

Crafting a business on creative do-it-yourselfers.

recently passed new laws Only this year, you can deduct $10,000 of startup costs, double the previous figure. Write off 100 percent of up to $500,000 in equipment costs your first year. If you have costs beyond there, you can write off 50 percent of them right away under the bonus depreciation clause. Investors can […]

Apparently, all the people out there who want to start businesses have now done it. A new study from Challenger, Gray & Christmas shows the percent of laid-off workers starting their own businesses sunk to an all-time low in the first half of this year. Just 3.7 percent of job-seekers ended up starting a business […]

Entrepreneurs often have to make tough sacrifices to get their businesses off the ground. For John Schnatter, it was his 1971 Z28 Camaro. He sold the gold-and-black car for $2,800 in 1983 and used the money to save his father’s tavern from closing and start his own business: Papa John’s pizza restaurant. Twenty-five years later, […]

An eye-tracking study of 25 people said to represent the average social-networking site users found that a majority of them approved of seeing advertisements and even engaged with ads while searching for products and reviews on their favorite social portals, according a report released this week. The study, titled “Seeing Search Go Social,” by search […]

The $787 billion economic stimulus package signed into law by President Barack Obama this week contains $116 billion in tax cuts for individuals, more than $53 billion for education and job training, and north of $10 billion for health, science and research. But there’s nary a penny explicitly set aside for startups and entrepreneurs. In […]