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Take It or Lease It

Negotiating a commercial lease is one of the most financial consequential - and probably least-prepared-for aspect of small business.

Check out my tips on how startups can get the best deal possible when signing a lease.

It's Growing On Them

Take a look at San Diego's innovative biofuels technology cluster, fueled by algae.

Taxpocalypse 2012

Tax planning is at an all-time level of complexity this year, what with an election and a "fiscal cliff" looming.

In this column, I run through a few details small business owners will want to discuss with their accountants before year's end.

Obamacare 2013

New health care reform provisions will roll out in 2013. How many affect small business owners and the self-employed?

I run through a list - and examine a couple of interesting new studies - in this week's column.

Wise Up

Having women in senior executive positions helps start-ups succeed. That's not just anecdote or common sense anymore, it's been shown in a Dow Jones analysis.

My colleague John Tozzi asks when venture capital firms - notorious "old boys clubs" - will sit up and take notice.

Bad, Bad Customer

Every small business owner has experienced it: The customer who gets the product or service and then "forgets" to pay the invoice.

A Long Island business owner is fed up with these serial offenders ("rich kleptomaniacs" he calls them) and he's fighting back.

Read about his website, in my column this week.