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By Tom Bergin and Jonathan Stempel LONDON/NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - BP Plc has delayed by one week the start of a massive trial to decide who should pay for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, to allow more time to cut a deal with tens of thousands of businesses and individuals affected by the disaster. In a statement on Sunday, BP said the start date for the trial in New Orleans federal court has been pushed back to March 5 from February 27.

When you're determined to make your start-up succeed, it's easy to be serious.

You just closed a small financing round, hired some new team members and are looking to move into a new office space.

A new survey shows that business owners, as usual, are more optimistic than everyone else. Here's why that's no longer a sign that they're crazy. Small businesses owners – as a group – may be the most irrationally exuberant people in the nation right now

The terms sometimes get used interchangeably, but they're not the same thing.

The president is right that current rules make it very hard for growing businesses to raise money. Will Congress really cooperate to change them? Yesterday, President Obama presented the details behind one of his State of the Union initiatives: to make it easier for small businesses to raise money and to grow.

A pair of experts on start-up life challenge the conventional notion that other career paths are far safer than starting your own business. To be an entrepreneur you need to be bold, the usual thinking goes.

Money, time, connections -- you need more of everything, right? Stop whining and start using your contraints to your advantage. Sometimes less really is more , especially when you’re starting a company

For the entrepreneur, creative capital can be the catalyst to compel investors to sign on earlier in the start-up process. In 2006, after designing products and brands for other companies for 12 years under ASTRO Studios (my design firm), I teamed up with some outstanding business partners and spun-off a separate, product producing, direct-to-consumer brand of premium video gaming products called ASTRO Gaming

Your start-up may have crossed the threshold to viability. Now, the tough part begins. At the onset of 2012, many start-up executives around the world are sticking their copy of Lean Start-Up on the shelf, leaning back, and bemoaning the fact that they have a new set of challenges ahead of them

Your start-up may have crossed the threshold to viability.

Your start-up may have crossed the threshold to viability. Now, the tough part begins. At the onset of 2012, many start-up executives around the world are sticking their copy of Lean Start-Up on the shelf, leaning back, and bemoaning the fact that they have a new set of challenges ahead of them

Your start-up may have crossed the threshold to viability. Now, the tough part begins

Even in tough times, entrepreneurs are incurable optimists. But too much optimism can blind you to the obstacles ahead.

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