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Sponsored by... For entrepreneurs with the right strategy, this is an exciting year to launch a new business with high growth potential. Our panel of experts will show you innovative ways of finding funding including crowd funding, private investment, Internet-based campaigns, and traditional venture capital. The social web is...[read more]

Hire More Staff or Contract Out? A Question for Every Small Business Sponsored by... For entrepreneurs with the right strategy, this is an exciting year to launch a new business with high growth potential. Our panel of experts will show you innovative ways of finding funding including crowd funding, private investment, Internet-based...[read more]

The Revolution in Venture Funding Sponsored by... For entrepreneurs with the right strategy, this is an exciting year to launch a new business with high growth potential. Our panel of experts will show you innovative ways of finding funding including crowd funding, private investment, Internet-based campaigns, and traditional...[read more]

This one-hour session covers how to: Establish and build your Twitter presence Use Twitter to engage and support your customers Generate leads and bring in new business using Twitter Use Twitter as part of your firm’s marketing mix Featuring: Brian Solis is author of the new book Engage, the complete guide to build, cultivate and...[read more]

Featuring: Modwenna Rees-Mogg, owner and operator of AngelNews, a U.K.-based media business focused on business angels, VCs and early stage funded companies. Jim Estill, a partner in Canrock Ventures, an early stage technology venture fund, who previously started a technology distribution company from the trunk of his car and grew it...[read more]

Featuring... Anita Campbell is Founder and CEO of Small Business Trends, an online community touching over 300,000 small business owners each month. The site has been named to the Forbes Best of the Web in 2005 and 2008, and received recognition from the Wall Street Journal and MSNBC television, among others. Anita was voted “Most...[read more]

Our panelists: Clara Shih is the author of the newly released bestseller, The Facebook Era: Tapping Online Social Networks to Build Better Products, Reach New Audiences, and Sell More Stuff about Facebook and Twitter for business, which has been featured in The New York Times, Fast Company, CRM Magazine, and is being used as a...[read more]

While the neglect of small business by the current administration has drawn criticism, Barbara believes most government proposals never really help anyway. “Government should get out of the way,” she says, “and let small business do what it does.” As for the healthcare bill, she believes the growing amount of paperwork small...[read more]

A well-known coach and writer, Pam is a former corporate manager who also spent years consulting with such corporate leviathans as Cisco Systems and Hewlett-Packard. So she's witnessed first-hand the angst many corporate employees have experienced as they’ve sought to take the entrepreneurial plunge. Pam blogs about her passion for...[read more]

“We’re optimistic the economy is at or near a bottom and the general signs are things are starting to turn around,” says Steve. The Council of Economic Advisors projects the stimulus package will create 3.65 million jobs, and Steve’s own firm Emerging Research estimates that 1.6 of those will be in small to mid-sized business. “You...[read more]