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A Kauffman study released Thursday illuminates how small businesses are struggling with using the Web to convert sales, while a few unlikely industries are finding success. In the world of start-ups, a website is a company's lifeblood.

At this year's Inc. 5000 Conference, I had the distinct pleasure of running a debate between two great entrepreneurs: Phil Patrick of PharmaStrat and Jay Goltz of The Goltz Group .

This was my fourth year attending Inc.

Thanks to credit crunches and slow sales, experts say the key to budgeting for 2012 is being prepared for the worst. Here are the simple steps to building a bulletproof budget.

Cutlers favorite things include the Polar Hearth Rate Monitor and Dakines Over Under Bag. In 2006, Elizabeth Cutler and a business partner opened the first SoulCycle spinning studio in Manhattan. Today, SoulCycle has seven studios in the New York City area, and Cutler is preparing to open several more locations in New York and Los Angeles

On September 15, 2011, the week of the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on Lower Manhattan and The Pentagon, a group of Inc. Business Owners Council Members and Inc. 5000 honorees from the Greater New York area were given VIP tickets to visit the 9/11 Memorial just steps away from Inc.

Dont let a natural disaster spell ruin for your business. Learn from the experts how to protect against and recoup financial losses. When Hurricane Katrina struck the gulf coast in 2005, it left an estimated $75 billion in damages in its wake.

On August 29, 2010, a power panel of successful business entrepreneurs - members of Inc.

I like to look at most areas of life as a game. If I didn't think it were fun to navigate the challenges of the game called "business," I wouldn't have taken the career path I have

A special nod to this year's Council Members who made 2011's Inc. 5000 honoree list. Many are multiple year winners.

In 2005, 85 percent of business owners were optimistic about the future. It's a tie between small business owners who think the economy and their small businesses will improve—and those who think both will tank, says a new report. The latest edition of American Express Open's semi-annual Small Business Monitor suggests small business optimism has not recovered from the hit it took in 2008.

But they'd like to do it with as little risk as possible. A majority of female business owners expect their companies to grow over the next two years, but most don't want to raise prices—and they'd like to avoid risk, says a new report. Four in five women hope to grow their businesses "substantially" or "at least a moderate amount" by 2013, according to a survey of some 700 female business owners done by PNC Financial Services Group.

A decade in the making, the Small Business Administration finally put in place rules for its women-owned small business federal contract program. Here's how you can work it

The June SurePayroll Small Business Scorecard is a bit of d

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