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Tiny startups in developing countries have a savior in microfinancing organizations like Kiva , but what about the small- to medium-sized businesses that don't qualify for microloans? These businesses, commonly called "the missing middle," have between 10 and 300 employees and usually seek between $20,000 and $2 million. They are the backbone of economic growth in developing nations, but are tragically undersupported

Even in the most favorable business climate, starting a company is no small feat.

Even in the most favorable business climate, starting a company is no small feat. Imagine daring to set up shop as a woman under the Taliban regime.

American Express is joining the ranks of old-school credit card companies that have realized they need to embrace the future of digital transactions. Its new Serve platform enables novel digital payments that threaten PayPal and pave the way for NFC

Legendary VC firms Sequoia and Bain Capital are investing $41 million in photo sharing app Color. And that's before the app had launched

Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today.

The U.S. State Department will be funding an anti-jamming program for the BBC World Service in repressive regimes. But statements given before Parliament show that the real target is China's "Great Firewall." The cash-strapped BBC World Service has a new patron: The United States State Department.

Could Flattr be the future of making a living doing what you love? When you sign up for Flattr, a social micropayments service, you dedicate a flat fee per month to the site.

By now, many have heard about the undercover video of NPR's outgoing Senior Vice President for Development Ron Schiller railing against Tea Partiers and how NPR would be better off without public funding. But what most don't know is that the comments, particularly the funding talk, theaten to derail a new social media campaign NPR was planning to launch--one aimed at saving the very government funding Schiller said NPR could do without.

He claims so.

Stadium View Bar & Grille sits merely 150 yards away from historic Lambeau Field, home to the 2011 Super Bowl Champion Green Bay Packers, in Wisconsin. For 19 years owner Jerry Watson and his employees have been serving loyal Packers fans

If you had $1 billion to spend on just one project, what would it be? Here's how an astrobiologist, a broadcaster, a skeptic and a Nobel laureate, amongst others, would spend the money. Filmed at the 2010 Science Foo Camp in California, this is the last of four videos in this series.

Last month, I wrote about the EcoDog home power monitoring system , which lets you see how much electricity your house is pulling, circuit by circuit. Apart from being fun for energy geeks like me who have an insatiable appetite for data, the device lets you discover patterns in your power consumption you might never have known about and that are burning up your money. Soon afterwards, I got a call from EcoDog's competitor Powerhouse Dynamics

Tyler McIntyre got an iPhone in 2009. It didn't change everything, but it did frustrate the University of Miami freshman

Back in December 2010, Racebook Marketing Concepts held a Brand Name Auction during which "150 Timeless Trademarks and Domains" were offered for sale.