Starting a Business

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Starting a business but don't know what mistakes to avoid? Small Biz expert Steve Strauss highlights five of the most common mistakes first-timers make, and how you can set yourself on the right track.

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What's the best way to keep underprivileged teens and young adults from dropping out of school? Give them a chance, of course! The new documentary Ten9Eight takes a look at a nonprofit that gives these kids the extra boost they need to start their own businesses and look to the future. Click to see what the buzz is about.

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It's true that a business is like a baby -- unless you're an entrepreneur who actually has children. Then you start to realize quickly that during all those years you ran a business and kept referring to it as your baby, you didn't know what the heck you were talking about.

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How do you know if you've got a good idea on your hands? Simple -- do your homework first. Click to read Small Business Expert Steve Strauss's take on major flops from big companies and proven steps you can take to ensure success.

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Finding herself out of work and facing £400 ($655) rent payments, Debbie Davis, 29, from Sutherland, UK decided to turn her situation around and found such success that within five years, she's now making £250,000 ($409,639) a year, drives a Mercedes SLK and a BMW X3, and owns her own house. How, you may ask? By breaking out the makeup, of course.

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A new group of small business entrepreneurs are taking the spotlight at Tampa, Florida's Hillsborough County Jail. Inmates at this minimum security facility are brewing and selling their own line of hot sauces.

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Tech entrepreneur Greg Gianforte started a company in an extra bedroom in his house -- which now generates more than $100 million in annual revenues. He says if you're trying to figure out what business to start, you need to think about two things.

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Having your cake and eating it, too, used to be the hallmark of success, but as Jessica Cervantes has learned, it's even better if you just sell it instead. Click to see how this young entrepreneur turned her cupcakes-on-a-stick idea into a growing business.