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No need to pretend you're a large company. Your small size can help you beat the competition. Entrepreneurs, especially in the early years of developing their businesses, worry a lot about the perceived size of their companies--and they do many things to appear bigger from day one.

If you don't have empathy for the loan officer sitting across from you, you won't understand how to get the funding you need. Empathy is an essential characteristic of a successful business owner. In all aspects of business development—whether is customer relations, labor management, or seeking a strategic new business partnership—assuming the viewpoint of the person across from you is an invaluable practice

Need your vendors to go the extra mile?

Access to capital is a perennial challenge for most entrepreneurs. Three experts share their advice on raising capital, in good times and bad.

Forget Jeremy Lin. The hottest question of the week was, "Are entrepreneurs feeling optimistic?" One good thing about being the soul of free enterprise, the best hope of innovation, and the lone source of new job creation in the U.S. economy: It makes people attentive to your moods

These days, if you can't lead your company through rapid, continual change, you can't lead. It is easy to change things. It is hard to change people

It's crucial that the fate of your business does not rest in the hands of one person--not even yours. No one holds my company hostage

It's crucial that the fate of your business does not rest in the hands of one person--not even yours. No one holds my company hostage. Not even me.

It's crucial that the fate of your business does not rest in the hands of one person--not even yours. No one holds my company hostage.

It's crucial that the fate of your business does not rest in the hands of one person--not even yours. No one holds my company hostage. Not even me.

Only twice in the history of my business have I been truly terrified. Both times, it was my accountant -- yes, you read that right -- who jolted me back to business.

How many of us have dreamed of leaving our current jobs to do what we really want to do? And yet, not many of us have actually left the safety of what we do daily unless forced out by layoffs and downsizing. Why is that

Step No. 1: Realize that the daily deal site may very well need you more than you need it.

So you've found a business partner to help make your idea a reality. Be sure to ask yourselves these eight questions before incorporating. Given the unstable job market, and the risk of going it alone, many people are currently seeking to start businesses together.

How this socially responsible business is transforming school lunch programs across the country to attack the obesity epidemic Childhood obesity , which has been linked to cardiovascular disease, diabetes, breathing problems, some cancers, and poor self-esteem, is a particularly painful epidemic in our country. Cases of childhood obesity have tripled over the last 20 years, and according to the Center for Disease Control , approximately 17 percent of all children in the U.S. are obese.